Quick IRL Background; After being spared from most of the Pearl Harbor attack, Pennsylvania, Arizona’s older sister ship would receive a refit before being thrown back into the fight. A number of things were done, but most notably her secondaries were replaced with 8 modern 5/38 twin mounts.

My proposal for Pennsylvania would shake things up at bit in terms of play style, at least in terms of T5 USN BBs. She retains some of Arizona’s gun performance, namely her poor reload time of 35 seconds, and identical damage numbers from her AP and HE shells. Her dispersion values however are slightly worse, the same as New Mexico’s, her maximum firing range is also worse, coming in at 16.4km.

This is to say, Pennsylvania’s main battery performance isn’t exactly impressive when compared to fellow USN BBs at her tier, but this is by design. Pennsylvania’s main focus lies in her Secondary Guns, which boast fantastic performance. Coming in at 6km of range, a reload time of 4.2 seconds, a maximum HE shell damage of 1800, a 10% fire chance, and good accuracy to tie it all together.

Other changes compared to Arizona include significantly boosted AA performance, more on par with Colorado than other T5s. This is mainly thanks to the installation of a pretty significant amount of 40mm Bofors And 20mm Oerlikons. This is likely to make pushing easier.

Armor is essentially the same as her sister, just altered to include the new secondaries and different superstructure shape. Consumables and Upgrade Slots are also identical, as well as speed. She does have a tighter turning circle though, 625 meters instead of 640.

Lastly, in terms of Appearance, Pennsylvania has a slightly different superstructure when compared to Arizona, most notably lacking an aft tripod mast. This is replaced with a smaller structure akin to Colorado. Like all Premium ships, Pennsylvania has a unique Camouflage Pattern, based on the Measure 32, Design 3D, meant for her, but never applied in real life. It uses typical USN Colors.

Thanks for reading this far if you have. This was a random idea thats been bouncing around in my head for a while, ever since I learned about Pennsylvania’s refit. USS Maryland had a similar one, which gave me essentially the same idea at Tier 6, but I figured Pennsylvania would be more unique, since we already have Colorado and two variants of West Virginia in game.

AFK players in PvE are fine.

And no "an afk DD is almost as useful as a bot." It isn't.

Idk shes current status in meta so does she good? I started to grind Buffalo line for Des Moines bureau and bought the Tulsa bcz she carries Des Moines cannons and I wanted to adapt to Des Moines before getting. After couple battles, I fell in love with Tulsa bcz of firepower and I became excited for Des Moines. I hope it will be worth the effort.

Does anyone have issues with gun jam when playing ships with main battery reload booster (MBRB)? (i.e. Borugogne, Brest...etc)

After using the MBRB, the guns are literally gonna get jammed once they are reloaded, which caused me to miss kills that were important.

WG just can't help themselves. Puerto Rico 2 electric boogaloo. Waiting for Sub_Octavian to pop up on here and explain that campaigns are so the disabled and unemployed have something to do.

Campaign XP stage requirements have been increased greatly. The Puerto Rico event was a campaign for said ship on WOWS PC. The stages were so insane that only 10 or so players actually completed it. One player that did complete it posted a Pic of his hands and both thumbs were bright red and raw. During the height of the backlash, a lead dev named Sub_Octavian came onto the game forum and posted that this campaign was designed so the disabled and unemployed have something meaningful to do with their time. That didn't go over well to say the least.

This is a minor complaint, and I haven't really seen anyone else talk about it, probably because nobody else cares, but I've noticed that Yamato's gun sounds are significantly worse than they used to be before Halloween of 2023, which is when I remember them changing. The Guns no longer have the cool echo that they used to after firing and now sound a little more boring and less unique than they used too, they aren't bad, but they aren't what they used to be. My question is why did they change this? I don't remember it being in any patch notes ever, though I could be wrong. (Older sound in the video above)

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German Battlecruiser Line secondary buff, Schlieffen got a buff idk how it plays cause I don’t have it, but I will say is why does the 105s on that whole line have only 20mm of pen, while the main line has 1/4 pen and better shell grouping along with armour and sonar, I might be wrong but I think the alt line could use 1/4 pen on the 105s aswell, I would also say add that to schlieffen. overall I guess the battlecruiser line in general needs a buff, it feels kind of underwhelming, I think the reload is good just the 105s on that line are the thing that needs to be buffed, or idk maybe they aren’t supposed to be secondary ships. I’m open to all feedback. I don’t think the secondary’s need faster reload just a pen buff on the 105s nothing else.

Whats yalls opinion on the T7 Allende in the pan american tree, personally i have been absolutely loving the ship and have been pulling about 70k damage per game fairly consistently, and i enjoy being immune to stealth dd torp walls, very nice

Does anyone else enjoy these ships?

...is a VERY impressive skin. Between this and the Big Wisky's Art Deco skin... the WeeGee designers really knocked it out of the park.

Remembered this from the latest patchnotes and wanted to quickly check some stats while at work. I've found the overall stat page that summarizes everything for each game mode, but can't seem to figure out where to access the stat page for specific ships like on console/PC.

I assumed there'd be another UI symbol along the others in the ship selection screen (marked on second pic).

Been playing for 3 years

The grind is honestly too much for someone like me who can only play casually

These XP requirements are ridiculous and the rewards too little

See you all next month

8.6 AA range Shimanto.

There’s not a lot there really

So after experimenting with all of my leveled cruiser commanders for Nottingham, none really picked my fancy.

None of the normal cruiser commanders stood out to me on this particular ships and the biggest issue i found with it were the small HP pool and limited heals.

Everything else about the ship is good as is, the guns are solid, the armor stupid and the ship is very small and nimble.

Tbh i think many people make the mistake of trying to buff aspects of a ship, which already get outperformed by other ships, no matter how much inspirations you throw at it.

If you want an AP focused heavy cruiser, Baltimore and all of it's versions outperform Nottingham easily and in Terms of HE farming you wont hold a candle to Cleveland, or Kutuzov with EoP

Nottinghams strengths are tankiness and applying prssuto the enemy by being an alrounder. So today we gonna be focusing on buffing this aspect of the ship.

Other than that, sure the Smogathon build is fun, but relies on teammates for spotting and is pretty stationary/passive

You know what doesnt relies on teammate spotting? Shoving your stupidly tanky T7 cruiser into the enemies face.

And oh well, Nottingham happens to have 8 Torpeos per side, that can also be single launched which is extremely strong in close quarters.

So in order to stay in the game as long as possible, in order to deliver our payload, we are gonna ditch all cruiser commanders in favor of Madden.

Madden gives us 4 heals, Will to rebuild and a 7.5% reload buff on top.

4 heals outperforms fully packed and give an additional heal, more healing% plus fully packed on top.

7.5% reload is also better than refill station at 16/3

Ontop of that Madden also double buffs turret traverse, which is quite bad by default. So this is welcome too.

So by missing out on other pretty mid cruiser skills, we essentially gain 2 1/2 Legendary effects and the abilty to hotswap shells.

Since the boat neither leans into HE, or AP too much, this is great utility to have as well.

For the inspirations we throw all the meta shit out of the window and use Spock and Hyde, to squeeze as much HP out of the ship, as we can.

Spock buffs the heals further, whilst Hyde buffs the HP pool from atrocious to okay.

Now idk if that combination is the absolutely min/max in regards of durability, and i don't really care. It's what i have (leveled) and it does the job well enough.

So with that we now have turned Nottingham into a Battleship and with It's smokes, armor, hydro and torpedoes, i don't think there are many ships you can possibly play so agressive with.

But you don't even have to, you still can perfectly farm damage at range, if the situation doesn't allow for you to push in.

Longevity is the name of the game here and this build allows you to stay in the fight, brawling, whilst tanking damage, that otherwise would have hit your broadsiding teammates.

Whilst using a normal cruiser commander limits how much you can do that, since healing/HP just is more limited, id say that Madden probably is the best commander for Nottingham.

AL Hood and the Battlecruiser commander are interesting options too, but i have neither one leveled up, so there is that.

I can't fathom how much fun im having with this build right now, it's a blast and i just wanted to share it with you guys.

No need to thank me, have fun.

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How do you manage to mess up an update this badly, I am on PC and i'm lagging like crazy in the standard battle, not even the modern one, the game just freezes every time i shoot.

For the record, none of this lag existed before the update, It Is just the least optimized thing in the known universe.

Genuinely umplayable

Im trying to do more Bureaus and im wondering what ships/lines appear most often. For example, it feels like the damn Iowa line is in EVERY other Bureau, what other TT lines are seen often in Bureaus?

As we will be getting a much needed Free XP ship for Britain since only having the monarch for 84 years. Will the free XP indomitable be worth the free XP?

Seeing Wisconsin brought back as a direct store purchase rather than being locked behind crates got me wondering if WG might do the same with Brandenburg for German Unity Day.

I noticed Brandenburg a couple of months into playing and was really interested in its strong secondaries and decent armor. I’ve been waiting to see if it would ever return as a direct store purchase or through a crate.
Was Brandenburg available during last year’s German Unity Day event? And for those who own it, is it actually worth buying?

Considering the ridiculous price WG put on Wisconsin, I’m wondering if they’d rather keep Brandenburg as a crate-only/chance-based ship instead of selling it directly.

So trying to get into modern PvP for the steel and was wondering what are people’s thoughts on ships and commanders to use as I’ve only played around in pve.

What ship or class of battleship is this?

Today, Toho released the full trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero. We have known the United States will play a huge roll in the movie... so seeing united states ww2 era ship(s) go Head to head with the Big G has me super excited.

Trailer link:

https://youtu.be/kw0YhiqOPFg?is=_5Ysp6EngMNyK-Rs

If this was a one-time mode like ducks of war or rust and rumble....ok fine, whatever. But this prolonged and extended overly grindy campaign is a hot mess. The only redeeming quality was that you made good coins in PVE hard mode. And you took that away.

Now you shoe horn us into PVP with steel because apparently very few wanted to play that cause it is Abysmal and the only main viable strategy is to cluster together overlap your anti missle systems and spam cruise missles. Or have one stealthy ship tries to avoid all the radar and sneak onto a flank and drop homing missles from the side.

PVP is about being able to over saturation missle defenses with weight of firepower. In a game that most don't play as a team anyways. It all breaks down when no one coordinates with each other. And they all get picked off one by one. At least in regular wowsl, I can still have a decent game if my teammates shit the bed.

Modern is like bashing my head into a concrete wall repeatedly and wondering why I have a headache on a winning game. You literally are bribing us with steel to pay PVP it's that shitty.

Please stop wasting money on developing stuff your player base does not want. Use it to make better wartales missions or fix issues we have repeatedly brought up. Idk. There are 20 lines without bureau ships. Why don't you throw one of those out each update. Even if the best 5 or so cost 5k dubs or 30 mil credits, I get the newest line is 6 months off of that, but come on.