How do you like the current "Coal" ship offerings in the Armory? Anything new possibly incoming by the end of the year?

[Leo_Apollo11]

HI all,

 

How do you like the current "Coal" ship offerings in the Armory? Anything new possibly incoming by the end of the year?

 

Is there anything there that "makes your heart tick faster"?

 

BTW, I am currently sitting on 300K+ "Coal" and for the first time in years I have no clue what ship(s) to get...

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[meuhbat]

There are many more ships than I can afford, how do you get so much coal 

From the current offering I'm mostly interested in Neustrashimy and Napoli, but I also would like to get the "classics" like yoshino, salem, pommern... can't have everything.

[Montrala]

I'm at Yoshino or Moskva question. Last coal T X left to get as I'm not interested in getting Immelman. Then I will move to T IX

[Redcap375]

Well out of the ones I havnt got (neus, max, tulsa and kears) I would say the kearsarge. Only because its a tier 9 BB/CV and something different. 

 

Can only just stand playing the FDR so the max is out. The Neus is far too expensive for what it is and the tulsa looks interesting, maybe.

 

[Gnirf]

53 minutes ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

HI all,

 

How do you like the current "Coal" ship offerings in the Armory? Anything new possibly incoming by the end of the year?

 

Is there anything there that "makes your heart tick faster"?

 

BTW, I am currently sitting on 300K+ "Coal" and for the first time in years I have no clue what ship(s) to get...

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

Well @Leo_Apollo11, I am also as you know a lunatic player so I get most  of the coal missions, none of the auctions have been a success so I am currently missing Carnot , kearsarge and Tulsa and have coal for 1,3 ships roughly so I am not on par with the releases. I will wait for any eventual changes in the ship drops in the crates before I buy  anything (Coupon goes to steelships). We do not know if Black f.e. are released as coal or in the crates so I am collecting now. The snowflakes will together with missions during that timeframe get me to 2 ships but I wait until I know a bit more of the unreleased announcements as they seem more interesting to a degree.  F.e. Incomparable I want also on principle = Fishers Folly at Maximum

 

Kearsarge seems so odd and ugly so i must therefor have it. Tulsa least inspiring. I guess there is more ships to come from the announcements though I suspect the T10s is likely steel or RB.

So at present I see no urge to get even more ships (including those announced that may be for coal). I want to catch up more. T9 ships are too expensive to buy for cash, when I have so many ships already.

 

[Jvd2000]

Take out the cheap Blyska first. Saves you the disappointment when you receive a premium ship from a crate and find out it could be purchased relatively cheap with ingame currency. If you have a coupon maybe Max Immelmann for that extra Santa container token? Otherwise without coupon a T 9. You will recoup some / a lot of coal with the Xmas snowflakes anyway.
 

I have almost the same situation. ( don’t have Pommern but have Blysk and Max) From remaining ships I am 12k away from Pommern. After that either Flint ( being the cheapest) or Z44/ Marco Polo ( being the oldest). When I collected all these ships ( end 2022) there will be undoubtedly new ships released that can fight for priority with the remaining ships like Carnot, Kearsage, Tulsa and Neustrashimy.

 

I earn atleast 600k coal a year ( 35k a month*12) 420k + 130k Xmas snowflakes plus an easy 50k from crates, event coal rewards etc… And I can hardly keep up with the new coal releases. 

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

Not a very inspiring list from my point of view, but YMMV of course.
- Already got Flint & Blys.
- Terrible with all sorts of airplane involvement in this game: CVs, Spotter planes, Dutch airstrike.
- The only tempting ship is Tulsa.
PRO: I could use my 21 point captain in this ship
CON: Already got Salem, and the vast majority of the time playing tier 9 in co-op you get put into a tier 10 match anyway.

[SeaWolf7]

1 hour ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

HI all,

 

How do you like the current "Coal" ship offerings in the Armory? Anything new possibly incoming by the end of the year?

 

Is there anything there that "makes your heart tick faster"?

 

BTW, I am currently sitting on 300K+ "Coal" and for the first time in years I have no clue what ship(s) to get...

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

 

Just had this dilemma my self...ended up going for Napoli.

By putting luigi sansonetti as captain this pretty much is the most fun iv'e had in this game in a while. Those SAP secondary's are hilarious. You can literally see people go from charging you to... "Sh*t..!.."

 

 

 

 

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

I am tempted by Napoli and Kearsarge (Napoli more, though). I am getting the Immelmann, obviously, but I don't know when. I want Swirski and Lütjens, though. That's a lot of coal I do not have.

 

Pommern, Tulsa and most everything else I don't care about. Maaaaaaybe Neustrashimy. Maybe.

[tocqueville8]

1 hour ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

BTW, I am currently sitting on 300K+ "Coal" and for the first time in years I have no clue what ship(s) to get...

I thought the Z-44 would be a sort of joke-ship, but so far (small sample size) she's actually been very decent:

 

 

She's dead last for WR among T9 DDs, and she has barely more games on the server than the much more expensive Emilio, but I've found the 12 km torps, with good reload, to be relaxing, and possibly a surprise to enemy ships.

I wouldn't say "OMG get her she's so OP!!!"...I mean, it's not a Jean Bart we're talking about. But am I satisfied.

 

(hopefully this won't jinx it )

 

 

Napoli is also fun.

The torps are kinda meh, and the smokescreen isn't always useful (not with all the Petros and Moskvas around), but she can do 30-50k with the secondaries alone, if you angle her appropriately. The guns aren't 305s, but they can still hit citadels somewhat reliably, at mid range.

[Verblonde]

1 hour ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

Is there anything there that "makes your heart tick faster"?

I've already got all the DDs on the list (Neustra is the best, IMO, although she is expensive), so nothing that's remaining has a particularly high risk of inducing a coronary.

 

I don't have Carnot, Marco Polo, Kearsage, and Tulsa; as far as I'm aware, none of them was built, but I rather fancy getting Kearsage as she's so ludicrous (and I quite like hybrids), and assuming nothing more interesting happens in the meantime (most notably Forrest Sherman)...

 

It also depends a bit on what happens with Xmas crates; if they follow a similar model to last year, I'll probably get at least some of the T9 premiums from them...

[Hakssor]

I'm getting Napoli as my next coal ship.

 

@Leo_Apollo11I would say a lot depends on your playstyle but from what you don't have Neustra and Kearsarge are the most powerful. You can also buy 2 unique commanders if you already don't have them. Tulsa, Immelmann and Carnot are decent but nothing special.

[Verblonde]

40 minutes ago, tocqueville8 said:

I thought the Z-44 would be a sort of joke-ship, but so far (small sample size) she's actually been very decent

I forgot to check: has she had her sneakiness buff with the new patch? As I recall that should take her surface detection below 6 km, which should make her a pretty decent sneaky torp truck, even without the hydro.

 

Edit: I just checked; the buff has been applied:

[Hakssor]

As for new ships I would say Dalian has a good chance to be coal. Connecticut also coal if she gets released. Forrest Sherman has some decent chances as well. Sevastopol/Verdi are clearly not coal imo, there are already ships from that nation at the same tier. Incomparable prob not coal as well.

[SV_Kompresor]

Why would I tell you?

[ShuggieHamster]

cant say any of the current crop have inspired me to wack my big bag of coal on the counter ... the pommern mibi but given weegees hatred for all things german, cant say it fills me with temptation.

[NewHorizons_1]

1 hour ago, SeaWolf7 said:

Just had this dilemma my self...ended up going for Napoli.

By putting luigi sansonetti as captain this pretty much is the most fun iv'e had in this game in a while.

Dammit. I had set my mind up on Yoshino but now I've got the "what-will-I-get-with-the-next-coupon" dilemma too.

[Takethatyoubeast]

2 hours ago, meuhbat said:

There are many more ships than I can afford, how do you get so much coal 

From the current offering I'm mostly interested in Neustrashimy and Napoli, but I also would like to get the "classics" like yoshino, salem, pommern... can't have everything.

Salem is a lot of fun but run into a super cruiser in it and you are in trouble

 

It was first coal ship so I still like the old girl 

[ZeuSueZ1337]

TL;DR: tX ships - nothing else (Mayhaps commanders.....)

 

To maximise my chance for phat-l00t until my interest in the game dries up completely and/or the game goes full on arcade I've chosen to go full tX-ships only.

 

I'm aware that there are several attractive ships at t7-t8-t9 but in all honestly I'd rather play a tech-tree ship that suits my style and save the recourses (steel/coal/RB-points/etc) for a tX-ship.

 

So IF you play CV's, sure go for the OG-skip bomber.

If not, save your coal (as I read your screen dump your only tX coal option are Max-Immergeil)

[wot_2016_gunner]

So, here's my situation: I'm currently sitting at 427k coal; and that will become around 490k with the snowflakes (also counting the clan bonus). Since i ever got a few coal ships there's still quite a few that i'm interested in, tho i'm still waiting for WG to announce which ships will be removed next to make a final plan:

 

 - Marceau, which i am planning to get this X-mas, just before the coupon reset, if WG doesn't say anything;

 - Salem;

 - Yoshino, tho technically the last in line and one that i can just let go if it gets removed before i have any chance of getting it;

 - Tulsa, but she's going to stay here for a while, so no hurry.

 

And here's is what i'm not interested it, for reasons i'll provide

 

 - Immelman and Kearsarge: i'm just never going to get anything CV related for any resource. 

 - Neustra, i mean, she's not a bad DD, but it's just so expensive

 - Napoli, man, it looks good, but my problem with it, which i had since it was released, is that it's a cruiser that's supposed to be Secondary focused, which is fine, but... Cruisers don't get any secondary skills anymore; there's only Top Grade Gunner that gives you 10% reload, but you don't even take that for the secondaries, you get it for the 8% Main battery reload, you have no range and no accuracy skills; not to mention that you also don't have Fire prevention any longer as well.

 - Moskva, when Petro exists why would you need Moskva? She's not a bad ship, but more of a collectable.

 - Carnot, i just hate the way it looks, it might be the only ship that i won't get just because of how it looks 

 - Marco Polo, she did recently got a sigma buff, which is nice, but imo she's still missing something to make her worth. (maybe i might get it eventually but MAYBE)

 - Pommern and Z-44, just NO.

 

Honorable mention btw, GK and Khaba, which will become coal ships when they'll be replaced and i did grinded GK, so i'll have her.

 

P.S. I'm still waiting for a T8 coal ship; it just feels a bit weird that you have coal ships from T2 to T7 and then it skips a tier and you have T9s. 

[Hakssor]

4 minutes ago, wot_2016_gunner said:

So, here's my situation: I'm currently sitting at 427k coal; and that will become around 490k with the snowflakes (also counting the clan bonus). Since i ever got a few coal ships there's still quite a few that i'm interested in, tho i'm still waiting for WG to announce which ships will be removed next to make a final plan:

 

P.S. I'm still waiting for a T8 coal ship; it just feels a bit weird that you have coal ships from T2 to T7 and then it skips a tier and you have T9s. 

Pommern and Yoshino are the most popular coal ships and we also get the B versions. They are the only ships which I can see being retired from coal options.

 

T8 is always doubloons, I don't think there was any T8 premium ship for any resource other than doubloons. Sure there were events like for Takao or Cossack but those are long gone, WG is not that generous these days.

[totally_potato]

3 hours ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

HI all,

 

How do you like the current "Coal" ship offerings in the Armory? Anything new possibly incoming by the end of the year?

 

Is there anything there that "makes your heart tick faster"?

 

BTW, I am currently sitting on 300K+ "Coal" and for the first time in years I have no clue what ship(s) to get...

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

Get Z-44

Best DD in the game 

[tocqueville8]

34 minutes ago, wot_2016_gunner said:

- Napoli, man, it looks good, but my problem with it, which i had since it was released, is that it's a cruiser that's supposed to be Secondary focused, which is fine, but... Cruisers don't get any secondary skills anymore; there's only Top Grade Gunner that gives you 10% reload, but you don't even take that for the secondaries, you get it for the 8% Main battery reload, you have no range and no accuracy skills;

Any brawl of decent duration in the Napoli, with just the secondary module in slot #3, is about 30k dmg.

[totally_potato]

57 minutes ago, Takethatyoubeast said:

Salem is a lot of fun but run into a super cruiser in it and you are in trouble

 

It was first coal ship so I still like the old girl 

it melts supercruisers like butter tbh, and has enough armor to tank em

[tocqueville8]

1 hour ago, Takethatyoubeast said:

Salem is a lot of fun but run into a super cruiser in it and you are in trouble

You mean the ships that you out-DPM and that can't overmatch you?