New Ships, Camos, and New Year Dockyard Event

[DanSilverwing]

Apologies to @Ocsimano18 but I too was busy clipping these images as a digest.

 

Spoiler

General characteristics of Italian BBs:

AP and SAP just like Italian Cruisers

Large number of guns

Fast turning turrets

Fairly short range, fairly bad dispersion

 

Dante Alighieir:

36,000 HP

4x3 305mm guns

209m dispersion at max range

1.6 Sigma

14.6km range

Spoiler

Space for two beer cans for mounting (j/k)

3x3 and 2x2 305mm guns

16.1km range

244m dispersion at max range

DCP and Repair, no other consumable.

Spoiler

From Tier 8 Italian BBs will have Engine Exhaust Smoke

Good for disguising turns

Good armour pattern for mid to short range brawling

3x4 305mm guns

18.1km range

1.6 Sigma

244m dispersion

29.5 knots max speed

910m turning radius

17.1km base concealment

DCP, Repair, Smoke, Fighter/Spotter choice

Spoiler

Closer to the Roma

mid 1930's design

9x406mm guns

1.6 Sigma

SAP and AP

nice concealment

No smoke

Spoiler

 

New "Predator" Camo for Somers

 

Spoiler

Akizuki class, ex-IJN transfered to ROC in 1947

100mm dual purpose rapid firing guns

1x4 Deep Water torpedoes only BBs and CVs, like Asasshio 12km range

TRB and smoke (30sec duration) with 5 charges and 100sec reload

DefAA

19,700 HP

12.5km firing range

3 second reload

33 knots

Spoiler

Daring class

Australian built

Museum ship

Crawling smoke generator, and improved Hydro compared to HMS Daring. Vampire will get 3.5km for torps and 5km for ships. 120 second reload, 120 duration, x3 charges

19,800 HP

guns same as Daring

13.8km base range

1x5 533mm torpedoes, individual or tight spread

Engine Boost

Still WIP

no Heal

IJN Hizen announced as the main Dockyard reward for New Year. 26 stages, 22 can be completed in missions/Directives. Stages can be unlocked for 1,950 Doubloons each. Dockyard will span two updates 0.9.12 and 0.10.0 and will remain until 0.10.1.

7,800 Doubloons but might be early adoption discounts.

IJN Yahagi will be the intermediate reward at stage 15. IJN Tachibana will be initial reward at Stage 5.

 

1,425,000 credits compensation for Tachibana

4,000 Doubloons compensation for Yahagi

 

This is all supposed to be in the dev blog soon.

 

Edit: missed this one. New expendable camo "Winter Patterns".

[Ocsimano18]

T9 dockyard, hope they don't rise the grind.

[PeteEarthling]

Epic. I got Yahagi and 2 Tachis already... any compensation?

[Klopirat]

Just now, Ocsimano18 said:

T9 dockyard, hope they don't rise the grind.

26 phases instead of 20, with 22 to earn.

 

Just now, PeteEarthling said:

Epic. I got Yahagi and 2 Tachis already... any compensation?

Credits for Tachibana, doubloons for Yahagi

[K82J]

I gonna grind out the Yahagi probably, just to make sure it never gonna get dropped from a supercontainer. Dont need the Hizen, with having the Musashi already.

[Ocsimano18]

14 minutes ago, Klopirat said:

26 phases instead of 20, with 22 to earn.

 

Credits for Tachibana, doubloons for Yahagi

Not interested then.

[Verblonde]

First related Dev Blog: https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/90

[piet11111]

If the grind is reasonable im interested.

But i am counting on a pulling teeth type of experience until proven otherwise WeeGee has burned me before with such BS grinds.

[Verblonde]

Fen Yang looks interesting: finally, an Aki with DefAA (for what that's worth); sounds like she gets RN smoke, and 12 km Asashio-type torps (can only hit BB/CV)...?

 

She's real too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Yoizuki

 

Two distinctly promising DDs in one announcement? I think I may need to have a lie down to get over the shock...!

[Verblonde]

No healing potion on Vampire II, apparently.

[Butterdoll]

48 minutes ago, DanSilverwing said:

1,425,000 credits compensation for Tachibana

why?

are wg take it from us?

[Klopirat]

1 minute ago, Butterdoll said:

why? 

are wg take it from us?

because you get it with phase 5, and since many players will have this ship already there must be some kind of compensation

[piet11111]

1 minute ago, Butterdoll said:

why?

are wg take it from us?

 

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IJN Tachibana will be initial reward at Stage 5.

 

Nope the tacobanana is for stage 5 completion.

[22cm]

2 minutes ago, Butterdoll said:

why?

are wg take it from us?

 

[Butterdoll]

10 minutes ago, 22cm said:

 

What?

 

I have few ships and every time i hear compensation for a ship i have i get nervous.

Atago.

Zao wasn't always the t10 ship of tech tree.

 

[piet11111]

1 minute ago, Butterdoll said:

What?

 

I have few ships and every time i hear compensation for a ship i have i get nervous.

Atago.

Zao wasn't always the t10 ship of tech tree.

 

 

I agree plus its info that was easily missed it was only on stream just a short while ago.

i missed it entirely the info about tachibana and yahagi.

 

[Klopirat]

4 minutes ago, piet11111 said:

it was only on stream just a short while ago.

it is also in the devblog post

[piet11111]

1 minute ago, Klopirat said:

it is also in the devblog post

 

I had a long day and im drinking until i cant feel my face i cant be expected to check the devblog every evening.

(seriously i was up at 5:45 to make sure i was on time for the ferry did not get home until 17:00 and then i had to unload a ton of stuff to redo the living room anyhow back to drinking and watching movies)

[koliber_1984]

10 minutes ago, piet11111 said:

 

I had a long day and im drinking until i cant feel my face i cant be expected to check the devblog every evening.

(seriously i was up at 5:45 to make sure i was on time for the ferry did not get home until 17:00 and then i had to unload a ton of stuff to redo the living room anyhow back to drinking and watching movies)

Quite a story. Take care mate. 

[22cm]

10 minutes ago, piet11111 said:

back to drinking and watching movies

better than this game

[22cm]

23 minutes ago, Butterdoll said:

What?

Reading is OP.

[Jvd2000]

Did not expect the T5 to be the pre-rebuilt version. Sure 3 more 305 ( 13 in total) vs 10 320. Guilio Cesare will be so much faster though. Doubt that Conte di C. will match GC. The silverline T6 will match GC more in capabilities but at a tier higher. 

[Shiplife]

What are the strengths of Hizen? 3x3 410mm and 38 seconds reload sound not so great.

[Jvd2000]

So around 8 k doublouns for Hizen. Maybe less if there is a small discount ( mentioned during stream) if you buy x number of phases with doubloons at the start of the event.

 

For a Yahagi owner the net cost will be 4 k less ( although that’s not fair since I would have 4K extra instead of -4K) but I am a bit grind tired. So actually might, depending on the level of grind, just settle with just completing 15 parts to get that 4 k doubloons and the goodies received in other parts.

 

There will a temporary campaign for the Strassbourg plus an additional one to get regular T5’s with perm camo. In earlier years you need a certain premium to unlock that second campaign ( for the T5+ camo’s) that either you had the grind the hard way ( leaving almost no time to do the grind for the T5 campaign) or buy it directly. Think that ship is Strassbourg. 

 

So while the days you have for these missions is 2 full patches it’s the split of multiple goals that you have to pay attention to. Depending if progress is good due to overlapping mission tasks or not makes the part of grinding doable, tough or a real fight where you are grinding in a way that’s the most effective instead of playing the game for fun. And then knocking off snowflakes with ships that are not actually suitable for your tasks. 

 

My fear: required expenses to make the grind possible for 80% of playerbase with the wish to enjoy some familytime:

1.premium time needed for 3 missions at the same time + bonus on the xp, silver etc grind.

2.Then “ have’ to buy Strassbourg. Maybe doubloon refund after you unlock her as a prize.

3. Then a minimum of 4 phases you have to buy. Maybe more depending on the sanity of the grind.

 

My plan based on what we know now.

Focus on snowflakes ( free)

Focus on phase 15 ( Yahagi thus 4 k doubloons) if it can be reached by playing regular. The monetary value of 4K is not worth working for me. 

Strasbourg campaign maybe my mostly focused ship. Not interested in the T5’s so will not rush her progress. Hope this one is grindable.

The T9 perm camo rewards that are somewhere in the mix ( most possible as a phase reward) might be a point of attention if again grindable in a fair way.

[Jvd2000]

10 minutes ago, Shiplife said:

What are the strengths of Hizen? 3x3 410mm and 38 seconds reload sound not so great.

Thought she had 4x triple turrets for a 12 gun broadside.