Unique Commanders Wishlist

[JaiFoh]

With a new Campaign coming soon that will grant us access to the Legendary Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy Isoroku Yamamoto. The commander of the Japanese combined fleet and perhaps one of the most brilliant Naval Commanders of his generation. Such was his reputation and standing in Japan he was eventually ordered to be assassinated by the USA . 

Now we already have some special Commanders, Steven Segal & Jack Dunkirk and i suspect that more will come out in due time for France, Russia & Germany.
(Wargaming please contact Sean Connery and have the Russian special commander be Marko Ramius) 

But what of Legendary commanders? those who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Yamamoto with that Legendary status. 
There are some Obvious ones, Chester Nimitz, Frank Halsey, John Jellicoe, David Beatty, Andrew Cunningham, Nikolay Kuznetsov. 

But what of less famous Admirals that also deserve the title legendary. 
The Name i put forward is not a famous commander of battleships or aircraft carriers but rather Destroyers and Cruisers, but was the admiral in charge of more movements of ships and men than any other in history, in command for the resuce operations of Allied forces at Dunkirk, commanding sections of the naval invasions of North Africa and Sicily and finally responsible for the overall command of Operations Neptune. 

I refer of Course to Admiral Bertram Ramsey. 
So why Ramsey? well firstly two of the ships he commanded are in the game HMS' Danea and Weymouth and he commanded at Sea for a highly unusual six years straight during the inter war period moving from HMS Kent into HMS Royal Soverign before being promoted to flag rank. 

So with Yamamoto having unique hidden skills what hidden legendary skills should Ramsey bring?  
Well he should benefit Cruisers and Destroyers most of all so what are Cruisers best at doing specifically Royal Navy? Hunting Destroyers and decent AA for Cruisers (and getting deleted whenever a battleship shows up, please Wargaming) and Destroyers are Scouts and general all round boats..

So what abilities
First Blood: Earn First Blood during a battle and the cool down on consumables is reduced by 20% and reload time on weapons is reduced by 10% for the remainder of the battle.
Confederate: Earn Confederate during a battle and gain +1 charge on consumables and boost Adrenaline Rush for the remainder of the battle (-0.6 reload times instead of -0.2)

please add your own and be civil :-)

 

 

 

[SteDorff]

How about this one

 

[G01ngToxicCommand0]

Renowned japanese destoyer captain Tameichi Hara.

[warsinger2]

Well rolling with Yamamoto, fleet commander theme I would say:

 

Reinhard Scheer, Fritz Hipper, Alfred von Tirpitz.

Sir David Beatty, Sir Andrew Cunningham.

Chester W Nimitz, William Halsey jr. 

Isokuro Yamamoto (already on his way), Chuichi Nagumo

Russian, I am afraid no one really comes to mind since the Soviet Navy neither in WW1 nor WW2 was much worth mentioning aside from playing pillbox around Leningrad and sinking refugee ships.

Every other military branch a ton of names could be selected but navy, I am afraid not.  

[AkosJaccik]

Frankly, I'd put for example, Frank Jack Fletcher far before Halsey, but that's purely personal. As for the russians, Stepan Osipovich Makarov was a fantastic and very talented commander.

 

As for a small "self-irony", K. und K. Großadmiral Anton Haus: you get 1 ship XP every day you do not leave the port.

[T0byJug]

NOT David Beatty.. HE was a incompatant idiot that should have been court martialed after Jutland.

 

He did not follow Flag signal Protocol. This  you action it. A practice he did not follow as he said all his captains should be paying attention. This led to the 5th battle squadron losing contact with him.

The reason the Battle cruiser fleet took so heavy lose of life is he encouraged his ships to remove all safety protocols on his ships to increase rate of Fire. Ironically these very same protocols saved his life. How you ask? Well not long before the battle of Jutland HMS Lion (Beattys Flag ship) got  a new Gunnery officer. Horrified at the removal of all anti flash doors and the practice of stacking Cordite bags(Shell Propellant) at the back of turrets, He ordered the Doors replaced and a strict  loading policy of only the necessary Propellant in the turret at any time. The result was that when HMS Lions Q turret got a direct hit she did not suffer the fate of the other Ships in his Squadron. 

[RUSSIANBlAS]

57 minutes ago, SteDorff said:

How about this one

 

With "Let the Wookie win" perk?

[Aotearas]

How about a simple no to the very concept of special captains?

 

ESPECIALLY when they come with extra passive skills that activate upon some arbitrary requirement and give advantages over non-special captains. Plus I already have several highly trained captains for the ships I'm playing/grinding and introducing more captains with better captain skills just means I have to grind the captain up to stay competitive against anyone who did.

 

But I suppose that's one way of creating an elite captain XP sink if WG found that allowing captain retraining for free with elite XP takes away too much of their doubloon-instant retraining revenue ...

[RUSSIANBlAS]

6 minutes ago, Aotearas said:

How about a simple no to the very concept of special captains?

 

ESPECIALLY when they come with extra passive skills that activate upon some arbitrary requirement and give advantages over non-special captains. Plus I already have several highly trained captains for the ships I'm playing/grinding and introducing more captains with better captain skills just means I have to grind the captain up to stay competitive against anyone who did.

 

But I suppose that's one way of creating an elite captain XP sink if WG found that allowing captain retraining for free with elite XP takes away too much of their doubloon-instant retraining revenue ...

It's a bad idea, just like strong Prem ships.

 

We're going to reach a point where Ranked and other unregulated competitive modes will be utterly twisted by people with OP setups. Part of me feels dirty at the thought of taking a 19 point captain Flint into a Ranked season...

[Jellicoe1916]

Id like Vice Admiral Holland for Hood, Admiral Phillips or Captain Leach if Prince of Wales gets added, John Tovey for KGV, Tennant, Cunningham, Jellicoe and Somerville

For Germany id like Lutjens, Bey and Kohlauf. 

For America: Callaghan, Scott, Oldendorf, Spruance and Mitscher 

Japan: Goto, Abe, Kurita, Togo and Ito

Italy: Iachino, Bergamini 

France: Gensoul and Darlan

Russia : Makarov, Roshestvensky and Nebagotov 

[Commander_Cornflakes]

Captain Jack Sparrow.

Whenever he would ram a ship, it gets boarded instead and both ships switch teams

[ShinGetsu]

For Japan, I really would like Yamaguchi Tamon (Admiral commander of the Hiryuu, sunk with her at Midway, brillant strategist and personal friend of Yamamoto) with some special CV skill.

[T0byJug]

It would be nice for 1 captain per nation.

[Verdius]

1 hour ago, JaiFoh said:

With a new Campaign coming soon that will grant us access to the Legendary Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy Isoroku Yamamoto. The commander of the Japanese combined fleet and perhaps one of the most brilliant Naval Commanders of his generation. Such was his reputation and standing in Japan he was eventually ordered to be assassinated by the USA . 

Unpopular opinion time:
Yamamoto is overrated. He at first dismissed the allied attack on Guadalcanal and instead sailed the main fleet back home to Japan for retraining and refitting. Then when the scale of the attack became more apparent his reaction was to send in his fleet piecemeal into a meat grinder. He squandered resources that Japan could not replace and destroyed any chance of coming back from the Midway disaster.

For commanders that I would want: Tameichi Hara and Gunichi Mikawa

[SteDorff]

31 minutes ago, Negativvv said:

With "Let the Wookie win" perk?

I think he is a gunner so he could have + on main or secundairies batteries.

[SteDorff]

My Ramius captain is at 9 pt. at the moment

 

 

 

[zFireWyvern]

It'd be nice to have Captain Stephen Beattie VC as a captain for Campbeltown

[Major_Damage225]

How about Tōgō Heihachirō for ijn(for mikasa only) his only perk would be switching the armarment, mains to secondarys or vice versa or perhaps extending the range of secondaries to 6 or mabe 7 km's? 

 

EDIT: 

The two skills would be. 

TAE- 20% instead of 10%

AFT-  all secondaries up to and including tier 8 (yammy and izumo excluded) by 40% and main guns up to and including 140mm(prefrebly up to and including 155's) by 20% .  

 

2ND EDIT: 

TAE - 20% to reload plus 0.2/0.4 to torpedo concealment and 15%/20% to torpedo range. 

AFT - 30% to secondary range and +25% to secondary accuracy. 

[lup3s]

I want KM BB captain with improved AFT, man secondaries and man AA.

 

Or any BB captain with improved FP (e.g. only bow and stern can be set on fire) and improved BoS.

 

Give me a IJN DD captain with improved TAE and TA (+10kts, no range reduction).

 

/s

 

Unique commanders are fine imo, but I really hope WG thinks about the "special skills" they'll give them.

[G01ngToxicCommand0]

2 hours ago, T0byJug said:

NOT David Beatty.. HE was a incompatant idiot that should have been court martialed after Jutland.

 

He did not follow Flag signal Protocol. This  you action it. A practice he did not follow as he said all his captains should be paying attention. This led to the 5th battle squadron losing contact with him.

The reason the Battle cruiser fleet took so heavy lose of life is he encouraged his ships to remove all safety protocols on his ships to increase rate of Fire. Ironically these very same protocols saved his life. How you ask? Well not long before the battle of Jutland HMS Lion (Beattys Flag ship) got  a new Gunnery officer. Horrified at the removal of all anti flash doors and the practice of stacking Cordite bags(Shell Propellant) at the back of turrets, He ordered the Doors replaced and a strict  loading policy of only the necessary Propellant in the turret at any time. The result was that when HMS Lions Q turret got a direct hit she did not suffer the fate of the other Ships in his Squadron. 

Why not?

His special skills: 50% increase in RoF on main and secondary batteries with a 100% increase in probability of ships detonating if turrets, barbettes or magazines suffer penetrating hits

[Bellegar]

5 hours ago, JaiFoh said:

(Wargaming please contact Sean Connery and have the Russian special commander be Marko Ramius) 

 

Yes please! If only for the voice over. By god, I would even pay a few bucks for that

[The_Flying_Dutchman114]

Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman please. Just for the premium Hr.Ms. De Ruyter.....

[anonym_u5USg8CcK96I]

Horatio Nelson

[Squidpusher]

Legendary commander: Noah

Nation: Can command ships of all nations

 

Unique abilities:

* Immune to flooding

* "Detonation" : upon detonation, Noah gets to choose one pair, one from each side, of every class, and bring them with him to a new map. The unchosen ships will be teleported to the map "ocean", all with unrepairable flooding. 

 

[txtspeak]

6 minutes ago, Caulton said:

Horatio Nelson

Just for the lolz.

give him a special skill that only he can equip called "outdated tactics"

 

I nominate Captain Ernst Lindemann (Not Lutgens, he was a Nazi. (Lindemann disaproved of the Nazis))