HMS Cardiff

[BMARC_]

while we are at it, could we rename The Duke Of York for obvious reasons......

[peter_s_price]

59 minutes ago, TerryCox said:

So stopped playing this game back in February, cam back a couple of weeks ago. I see a whole new Royal Navy line, but again, not a single ship with a name connected to Wales.

Perhaps the developers keep sheep and dont want to scare them with a welsh connection?

[BoxOfAngryBees]

they gonna sell you the name, now you've shown interest - and you'll be a sucker for paying for it

[BoxOfAngryBees]

let me also add:
in this game? I'd be more ashamed than proud for having a ship named for my home town/capital/favorite ghetto/aunt anni's smores cottage than anything, given how abysmally greedy wedgie has become and for the general state of the game

[Spartacus_Mills]

2 hours ago, BoxOfAngryBees said:

let me also add:
in this game? I'd be more ashamed than proud for having a ship named for my home town/capital/favorite ghetto/aunt anni's smores cottage than anything, given how abysmally greedy wedgie has become and for the general state of the game

Fair point.

[invicta2012]

5 hours ago, TerryCox said:

So stopped playing this game back in February, cam back a couple of weeks ago. I see a whole new Royal Navy line, but again, not a single ship with a name connected to Wales.

There aren't any Cornish ones, either. :)  *Celtic grumbling intensifies*

 

Anyway, isn't it Monmouth for a Welsh ship? 

[Spartacus_Mills]

18 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

There aren't any Cornish ones, either. :)  *Celtic grumbling intensifies*

 

Anyway, isn't it Monmouth for a Welsh ship? 

Is there a Monmouth in the game?

[invicta2012]

1 minute ago, TerryCox said:

Is there a Monmouth in the game?

There should be. It's both County and Duke class.

[Spartacus_Mills]

9 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

There should be. It's both County and Duke class.

Ironically, I see HMS Cornwall was a Monmouth class cruiser. 

[Spartacus_Mills]

On 8/4/2022 at 11:56 PM, invicta2012 said:

There should be. It's both County and Duke class.

So we'll get a HMS Monmouth in the game. Shame in stream they said it was English.

[Verblonde]

On 8/4/2022 at 6:36 PM, invicta2012 said:

There aren't any Cornish ones, either.

Plymouth is practically Cornwall...?

 

[invicta2012]

14 minutes ago, Verblonde said:

Plymouth is practically Cornwall...?

No it bleddy idnt. 

 

20 minutes ago, TerryCox said:

So we'll get a HMS Monmouth in the game. Shame in stream they said it was English.

I missed that one... any idea what it is? (Other than a ship)

[lafeel]

9 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

No it bleddy idnt. 

 

I missed that one... any idea what it is? (Other than a ship)

It's a county. Also was a dukedom till the holder lost his head (quite literally at that)

[Spartacus_Mills]

11 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

I missed that one... any idea what it is? (Other than a ship)

 Tier 10 premium cruiser. https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/368

 

[Spartacus_Mills]

@Seraphice can you have a word with someone, Monmouthshire is a Welsh county, not an English one as it states in the Dev blog?

[invicta2012]

 

11 minutes ago, lafeel said:

It's a county. Also was a dukedom till the holder lost his head (quite literally at that)

He did. Quite badly -  the executioner was the infamously incompetent Jack Ketch.  Good to see the Monmouth name in the game, though, should be a good bote if it's descended from Goliath.

 

Now, how about HMS Falmouth?

[lafeel]

50 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

 

He did. Quite badly -  the executioner was the infamously incompetent Jack Ketch.  Good to see the Monmouth name in the game, though, should be a good bote if it's descended from Goliath.

 

Now, how about HMS Falmouth?

I'm personally hoping for Kent. You have heard the story of what she did at the Falklands right?

[invicta2012]

16 minutes ago, lafeel said:

I'm personally hoping for Kent. You have heard the story of what she did at the Falklands right?

Redemption of the County Class. Everything went in the boilers until a ship supposed to do about 21 knots over ran a modern light cruiser. I could say that HMS Cornwall gave a decent account of herself in the same engagement. I'd be happy with either of those ships in either County form, tbh. 

[lafeel]

12 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

Redemption of the County Class. Everything went in the boilers until a ship supposed to do about 21 knots over ran a modern light cruiser. I could say that HMS Cornwall gave a decent account of herself in the same engagement. I'd be happy with either of those ships in either County form, tbh. 

Helped somewhat by two of Leipzig's boilers deciding to go quit (explode) on her mid chase to be fair.

 

Don't think anyone was doing measuring of that speed but I'm pretty sure she surpassed not only her trials speed in that  chase, but also her designed speed, which she failed to hit on trials.

 

Now that's not something you see every day, unless you just ran into the Rodney.

[invicta2012]

4 minutes ago, lafeel said:

Now that's not something you see every day, unless you just ran into the Rodney.

Just shows how complicated warship building was/is. How two ships of the apparent same design can perform so differently is quite beyond me! 

[Spartacus_Mills]

As more fictional Royal Navy ships are being added to the game, some of the names are just bizarre. HMS Scarlet Thunder? I thought HMS Nottingham was bad ( what with it being so far from the sea)  maybe they'll bring HMS Litchfield into the game (furthest place from the sea in the UK)?

What's happened to HMS Monmouth?  Why not bring in an N3 Battleship, rather than these bastardized versions they created, according to Wiki (it must be true) they were going to be named after the UK Patron Saints, St George, St Andrew, St David and St Patrick( who was also Welsh) Maybe if this game was designed and produced in a country with a naval tradition it wouldn't be in such a mess. Oh yeah, where the fudge is my HMS Cardiff?

[Taliesn]

25 minutes ago, Spartacus_Mills said:

As more fictional Royal Navy ships are being added to the game, some of the names are just bizarre. HMS Scarlet Thunder? I thought HMS Nottingham was bad ( what with it being so far from the sea)  maybe they'll bring HMS Litchfield into the game (furthest place from the sea in the UK)?

What's happened to HMS Monmouth?  Why not bring in an N3 Battleship, rather than these bastardized versions they created, according to Wiki (it must be true) they were going to be named after the UK Patron Saints, St George, St Andrew, St David and St Patrick( who was also Welsh) Maybe if this game was designed and produced in a country with a naval tradition it wouldn't be in such a mess. Oh yeah, where the fudge is my HMS Cardiff?

 

You can pretend Scarlet Thunder is in reference to the famous Scarlets rugby team and Llanelli (HMS Llanelli would have been a nightmare to pronounce) is certainly in Wales and by the sea.

 

HTH

[FloatingTarget]

Name is irrelevant, they generally follow the same mold. AP only, paper armour, giant citidel, small caliber, decent concealment.

 

Still waiting for HMS Rodney. But we get more fantasy ships.