Discussion thread for "some interesting info around the world"

[SparvieroVV]

Will WG conveniently discover a 38cm design with better AP and HE shells to pair with this ship?

[Toivia]

5 minutes ago, Saiyko said:

Can you, or someone else, explain me what the hell is supposed to be attractive about those ships? Imho they enhance even more static gameplay (look at me mom I'm reversing bow-on like a pro) and combine the worst of 2 worlds: can't overmatch cruisers like bbs, can't tank like bbs, don't have the stealth/dps like cruisers.

 

Once again one of those ships if I were to get it for free I might sell them for credits, if not out of fear that I would get the exact same ship later.

Personally, I love the look of those ships. Most BBs look fat to me (not all, but a great deal of them) while cruisers are too small/skinny/truncated/etc.

 

But yeah, gameplay wise, they ruin other cruisers. Why would you play a normal cruiser when a supercruiser is more resilient (except Azuma) and can delete other cruisers (some can even delete BBs). Supercruisers may not have the DPM, but their stealth and manoeuvrability are still pretty good even for cruisers.

[Toivia]

1 minute ago, thiextar said:

Honestly, if three factions already have super cruisers, i dont mind all the major factions having one each.

You mean 2 each, right? Cause that's where we're headed (at least). IJN and Soviets already got 2 and there has been talk of a super Alaska for T10 with a 4th turret (though nothing official yet, afaik).

[ColonelPete]

Just now, SparvieroVV said:

Will WG conveniently discover a 38cm design with better AP and HE shells to pair with this ship?

No need. They just upgrade the accuracy, maybe lower the reload or give her reload booster and see the cruiser sink.

Her AP penetration is only 5 to 7% worse than Bourgogne.

[SparvieroVV]

42 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

No need. They just upgrade the accuracy, maybe lower the reload or give her reload booster and see the cruiser sink.

Her AP penetration is only 5 to 7% worse than Bourgogne.

I'm honestly surprised Lesta didn't borrow the Italian clip loader code from WoT yet. Makes more sense than MBR. Although I guess, as an example, a French DD having a 5 to 24 shot ready rack might make the UI for it look silly. 

[Taliesn]

1 hour ago, Toivia said:

Personally, I love the look of those ships. Most BBs look fat to me (not all, but a great deal of them) while cruisers are too small/skinny/truncated/etc.

 

But yeah, gameplay wise, they ruin other cruisers. Why would you play a normal cruiser when a supercruiser is more resilient (except Azuma) and can delete other cruisers (some can even delete BBs). Supercruisers may not have the DPM, but their stealth and manoeuvrability are still pretty good even for cruisers.

 

With their RoF I'd say that depends on the ships involved and under certain conditions.

So far I enjoy a lot more playing Hinden/Moskva/Zao than Kron or Alaska. I don't own Azuma and I will not be buying her (nor Yoshino for that matter)

 

I will get the class-O BC though, because per force it will need to offer a very different playstyle with only 6 guns, even if it ends up in tier IX.

[Panocek]

2 hours ago, DFens_666 said:

 

Must milk ze germans, overall they do represent a large playerbase on the EU server I wonder that they didnt do it earlier

 

[insert whatever Siema DD would fit at tier 9] when? After all, Polish playerbase is a thing as well

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

OK... now we have a IJN DD tease as well...

 

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[fumtu]

6 minutes ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

Hi all,

 

OK... now we have a IJN DD tease as well...

 

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

 

Those are not 100mm gun turrets we have on Aki, Kaita and Haru but standard 127mm guns. If this is T10 I would guess it is Super Shimakaze.

[FishDogFoodShack]

Just now, fumtu said:

 

Those are not 100mm gun turrets we have on Aki, Kaita and Haru but standard 127mm guns. If this is T10 I would guess it is Super Shimakaze.

No reason to assume it'll be T10, probably just another trashy yugumo tech tree clone.

[JaiFoh]

That is the Shima's hull form to me once you fiddle with the contrast

 

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433248774857424907/580033970545229854/unknown.png 

 

so either super Shima or an updated Shima Model

[Panocek]

2 minutes ago, FishDogFoodShack said:

No reason to assume it'll be T10, probably just another trashy yugumo tech tree clone.

Kagero with 12km Shima/Zao/Yoshi torps. Here, ez T9 Freemium

[fumtu]

7 minutes ago, FishDogFoodShack said:

No reason to assume it'll be T10, probably just another trashy yugumo tech tree clone.

 

There only one Yugumo but three Kagero Class destroyers in the game. Anyway this is not another Yugumo/Kagero clone

 

 

If you see aft supefiring gun, torpedo tubes are immediately behind it which means no spare torps behind aft torpedo tubes which you can find on other IJN DDs. Shimakaze on the other side also didn't have reserve torps

 

 

[Allied_Winter]

3 minutes ago, fumtu said:

Shimakaze on the other side also didn't have reserve torps

I'll put my money on: T9 Shimakaze with TRB and DWT.

[fumtu]

4 minutes ago, Allied_Winter said:

I'll put my money on: T9 Shimakaze with TRB and DWT.

 

I doubt it will have TRB as WG already tested Shima with TRB and it was stupid. What they could do is give it 3x6 launchers, same we have on Haragumo and Kitakaze instead. And maybe only F3 torps.

[JaiFoh]

3 minutes ago, fumtu said:

 

I doubt it will have TRB as WG already tested Shima with TRB and it was stupid. What they could do is give it 3x6 launchers, same we have on Haragumo and Kitakaze instead. And maybe only F3 torps.

all together now

Tenno'heika BANZAI!!!

[FishDogFoodShack]

20 minutes ago, fumtu said:

 

There only one Yugumo but three Kagero Class destroyers in the game. Anyway this is not another Yugumo/Kagero clone

 

 

If you see aft supefiring gun, torpedo tubes are immediately behind it which means no spare torps behind aft torpedo tubes which you can find on other IJN DDs. Shimakaze on the other side also didn't have reserve torps

 

 

Yugumo, Kagero, same thing.

[Jvd2000]

4 hours ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

Hi all,

 

 

 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

Dutch project1047.

 

Not a battlecruiser but a real cruiser killer so we can make the lives of cruisers even worse 😁 

 

But change the flag...although the austrian hungarian bb was labelled german too...

[ColonelPete]

1 hour ago, Jvd2000 said:

Dutch project1047.

Take another look:

I do not see a resemblance.

 

 

[Jvd2000]

4 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Take another look:

I do not see a resemblance.

 

 

Correct, the mast in the back gives it away..Too bad since the 1047 would be a better ship.

[fumtu]

1 hour ago, Jvd2000 said:

Not a battlecruiser but a real cruiser killer

 

And what do you think that it is a battlecruiser role? Also Project 1047 was a battlecruiser.

[LastButterfly]

15 hours ago, fumtu said:

If you see aft supefiring gun, torpedo tubes are immediately behind it which means no spare torps behind aft torpedo tubes which you can find on other IJN DDs. Shimakaze on the other side also didn't have reserve torps

 

You can find torpedo tubes immediately behind the X gun turret on the Fubuki super-class aswell. Turrets are not consistent with Type A but it could be an Ayanami or Akatsuki class too.

[fumtu]

16 minutes ago, LastButterfly said:

You can find torpedo tubes immediately behind the X gun turret on the Fubuki super-class aswell.

 

That is true.

 

16 minutes ago, LastButterfly said:

Turrets are not consistent with Type A but it could be an Ayanami or Akatsuki class too.

 

If you look at the bridge contours it resembles a Shimakaze bridge outline not Fubuki class. Also all four sisters of Akatsuki sub-class had B Type turrets just like some of Ayanami sisters. I know that many would like T8 Premium Fubuki but I doubt this is the one.

[LastButterfly]

2 minutes ago, fumtu said:

If you look at the bridge contours it resembles a Shimakaze bridge outline not Fubuki class. Also all four sisters of Akatsuki sub-class had B Type turrets just like some of Ayanami sisters. I know that many would like T8 Premium Fubuki but I doubt this is the one.

 

That's correct, I just wanted to point out a project V6 isn't set in stone. With Wargaming's usual approximation, it could aswell be anything alike. Only the funnels would allow us to say for sure at this point. But V6 remains the most likely.

Either way. Wait&see it is. I'm curious what the eff they intend to do with a V6 considering how shimakaze in the game now.

 

The german thing is most definitely in the line of an O class.

[fumtu]

1 minute ago, LastButterfly said:

I'm curious what the eff they intend to do with a V6 considering how shimakaze in the game now.

 

Despite everything, CV and all other BS, Shima is still by far the most popular T10 DD. Whatever WG do, there is a good chance that premium Shima will be too.