What other nations can we expect in WoWs?

[Todeskult]

Hi,

I'm wondering what (if any) other nations' ships or new branches can we expect in WoWs in this year (or next one possibly)?

A natural choice would be UK (a plenty of ships to choose from, so all branches should be fulfilled).

Russian cruisers and battleships (as we have premiums of that type already)?

German battleships and destroyers (the latter would be more like a gun-boats)?

French? Italian?

 

[zFireWyvern]

As far as we know, British Cruisers, maybe Russian Cruisers and something about German BBs at Gamescom

[Hero_of_Tython]

As far as we know, British Cruisers, maybe Russian Cruisers and something about German BBs at Gamescom

 

Pretty much this. From everything I've read and seen I think expanding the existing trees (see USSR and Germany) is going to be priority number 1, German BBs and Russian CAs are the obvious choices as the Germans had some iconic BBs and the Russians had a number of cruisers (albeit a lot of 2nd hand stuff from other countries) to flesh out the trees with. After that they will look at a new nation, most people expect it to be the UK (and IMO it should be) but recent press releases and videos have tried to make the next nation's identity a bit more ambiguous. Aside from the Royal Navy both the French and Italian navies would be viable candidates for fully fledged tech trees (although nobody from WG has really mentioned them yet as far as I am aware), obviously there has been some talk of a Pan-Asian tech tree (similare to the much discussed Europe tech tree in WoT) featuring ships from China, Taiwan, Korea etc (see the 2 newest premium DDs), but in the last video they even mentioned the idea of an Australian Navy.

 

So to sum up (or the TL DR version), expect the German and Russian trees to get expanded first then the addition of a new nation (probably not before Summer if I were to guess), most likely is that the new nation will be the UK but that is not 100% certain yet.

[IamTroublemaker]

It has been said that we can expect UK, France, Italy and China.

 

As for the branches, German BBs, Russian CAs are 100% coming this year. There is also a possibility of UK CAs and an another mistery line since WG said in their 2016 video that they plan to release 4 new branches.

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

Assuming that we get German BBs, Russian CAs and British CAs this year, that leaves us with

2 lines of CVs

3 lines of BBs

5 lines of CAs

3 lines of DDs

 

Now, the French and Italian navies have plenty of interesting ships. I think it would be great if one nation provided a BB line and the other a DD line.

[zFireWyvern]

Pretty much this. From everything I've read and seen I think expanding the existing trees (see USSR and Germany) is going to be priority number 1, German BBs and Russian CAs are the obvious choices as the Germans had some iconic BBs and the Russians had a number of cruisers (albeit a lot of 2nd hand stuff from other countries) to flesh out the trees with. After that they will look at a new nation, most people expect it to be the UK (and IMO it should be) but recent press releases and videos have tried to make the next nation's identity a bit more ambiguous. Aside from the Royal Navy both the French and Italian navies would be viable candidates for fully fledged tech trees (although nobody from WG has really mentioned them yet as far as I am aware), obviously there has been some talk of a Pan-Asian tech tree (similare to the much discussed Europe tech tree in WoT) featuring ships from China, Taiwan, Korea etc (see the 2 newest premium DDs), but in the last video they even mentioned the idea of an Australian Navy.

 

So to sum up (or the TL DR version), expect the German and Russian trees to get expanded first then the addition of a new nation (probably not before Summer if I were to guess), most likely is that the new nation will be the UK but that is not 100% certain yet.

So far it looks to be the other way around with Wargaming working to release the RN Cruiser line first, Q1/2 of this year expected

[V2Spoon]

 

Pretty much this. From everything I've read and seen I think expanding the existing trees (see USSR and Germany) is going to be priority number 1, German BBs and Russian CAs are the obvious choices as the Germans had some iconic BBs and the Russians had a number of cruisers (albeit a lot of 2nd hand stuff from other countries) to flesh out the trees with. After that they will look at a new nation, most people expect it to be the UK (and IMO it should be) but recent press releases and videos have tried to make the next nation's identity a bit more ambiguous. Aside from the Royal Navy both the French and Italian navies would be viable candidates for fully fledged tech trees (although nobody from WG has really mentioned them yet as far as I am aware), obviously there has been some talk of a Pan-Asian tech tree (similare to the much discussed Europe tech tree in WoT) featuring ships from China, Taiwan, Korea etc (see the 2 newest premium DDs), but in the last video they even mentioned the idea of an Australian Navy.

 

So to sum up (or the TL DR version), expect the German and Russian trees to get expanded first then the addition of a new nation (probably not before Summer if I were to guess), most likely is that the new nation will be the UK but that is not 100% certain yet.

 

I think the mention of the Australian Navy was a bit of light trolling, WG must know how much butthurt is caused on the forums by lack of RN and the multiple threads about it. I'm not an expert on Naval history, would there be enough for an Aussie tech tree or would there be a lot of copy paste ships from the RN? Or is it more likely that commonwealth ships end up as premiums in a British tech tree?

 

[Vulgarny]

Czech, I bet on Czech Navy

[RamirezKurita]

Assuming that we get German BBs, Russian CAs and British CAs this year, that leaves us with

2 lines of CVs

3 lines of BBs

5 lines of CAs

3 lines of DDs

 

Now, the French and Italian navies have plenty of interesting ships. I think it would be great if one nation provided a BB line and the other a DD line.

 

Going by those figures we need more carrier lines before we start worrying about more battleships and destroyers.

[Historynerd]

Aside from the Royal Navy both the French and Italian navies would be viable candidates for fully fledged tech trees (although nobody from WG has really mentioned them yet as far as I am aware),

 

Then I believe you must have missed this...

 

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/35875-upcoming-tech-trees-england-france-china-italy/page__pid__660792#entry660792

 

 We postponed the introduction of other nations for the moment, but I can tell you that the British fleet will be the next to join the roster of ships. French, Italian, and Chinese tech trees are next on the agenda.

 

Source:  http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/wot-magazine-second-issue/

 

 

[Todeskult]

Czech, I bet on Czech Navy

 

Naaaah, I bet for Hungarian 

 

[Kamikazesushi]

Czech, I bet on Czech Navy

 

CZS Miloš Zeman Tier 11 premium BB incoming?

[von_Vietnam]

Czech, I bet on Czech Navy

 

You are aware thay they HAD some lake monitors right?

[Todeskult]

 

You are aware thay they HAD some lake monitors right?

 

Lake battleships... or submarines maybe? 

 

[Kamikazesushi]

 

Lake battleships... or submarines maybe? 

 

 

There is a pretty impressive fleet of boats and pedal boats on Vtava. I took one for a ride once and the reapir cost is only 250 Kč or so. However it took only light damage from a herd of swans so maybe the bill would be larger in case of sinking.....And I think we even have one CV on the largest pond Rožmberk. The CV name is "I am watching you, Helmut" and it is guarding our border in case someone (no name and shame) decides to take over the world again...

[Jadefalken]

von_Vietnam, on 17 February 2016 - 08:53 AM, said:

 

You are aware thay they HAD some lake monitors right?

 

Lake battleships... or submarines maybe? 

 

 

[Ebu34]

 

You made my day

[Todeskult]

 

 

Two in one: a floating boat, you do a hole and you got a submarine. Perfect design!!! 

 

[Agantas]

 

 

American Destroyers are already in the game. Yes, they are gunboats like this one.

[robihr]

well so far as i know you will get russian ships, italian ships, french ships, spanish ships, portugal ships, india ships, brazil ships, but there will be no british ships

 

[Iron_Vultures]

 

Going by those figures we need more carrier lines before we start worrying about more battleships and destroyers.

 

trouble with that is the majority of carriers built during the time period were american and japanese

[N00b32]

 

You are aware thay they HAD some lake monitors right?

 

Now I demand a fictional papal navy based on swiss guard ships as a fantasy implementation of fictional swiss monitors based on real swiss border guard ships on lake geneva and lake constance.

 

 

 

trouble with that is the majority of carriers built during the time period were american and japanese

 

Well, UK had their unsinkable carriers already in place: GB, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus and so on ...

 

But I'm sure we will see some stronk soviet carriers eventually.

[triumphgt6]

 

trouble with that is the majority of carriers built during the time period were american and japanese

 

Though the British provided carriers for all sorts of countries - Australia, Argentina, Brazil, France, India and the Netherlands. Simply making a Colossus class and a Majestic class would give a number of countries a CV presence.

[Peffers]

 

trouble with that is the majority of carriers built during the time period were american and Japanese

 

 

​By volume for the US only (not the IJN) , but not by type.  Additionally most CV innovation actually came from the UK.

I've listed them elsewhere so i don't intend to list them all, from the first "through deck" CV (ARGUS) through to the first jet landing.

RN thinking on CVs was also different bar say the paper ship Malta which did have some US ideas incorporated into the "blues".  

 

This was the same form CVEs although the bulk of British designs were built in the US and then uprated in Canada.\ but even a Bogue re-skin could suffice.

 

[Mr_Thursday]

Don't hold your breath for Royal Navy ships, unless you are waiting for an overpriced premium bundle around the end of the year. Expect to see Chinese (mostly clones of ships from other nations or paper designs that will have a small player base) and French lines (which will be over powered until nerfed to hell in a hand cart). Possible the first RN ships we will see will be conversions in other Tech Trees.

 

I would love to be proved wrong, but previous experience with WG says otherwise. Expect nothing from WG, and they will deliver by the truck load...