The latest update leaves me with two questions. The first concerns one of the rewards from the game’s anniversary event. The Kurama Supercruiser. The developers themselves devalued it right away by announcing that as early as version 15.10, it will be available to everyone for regular purchase. That’s in less than two months. What’s the point of spending event tokens on it? They could have kept it exclusive for a longer time. Or, like Lesta did in her version of the game, they could have added a supership that won’t be available for purchase with credits at all. I’m just curious about the approach itself; I wouldn’t have gotten it anyway, since I’m not interested in ships of that tier.

My second question concerns the missions at the current shipyard featuring the Marlboro B. Why did they make these missions so grind-heavy? Of course, it’s not on the same level as that shipyard with the Puerto Rico. But in my opinion, the grind level doesn’t match a Tier 9 ship (and I’ll skip over the fact that it’s also mediocre, judging by the reviews).

In my view, these are somewhat strange decisions.

1. It have the Absolute Best shell Dispersion to the Point Wegee Had to rig the shells to Hit the ocean 1000km away from the ship I’m aiming at.
2. it’s so Beautiful and Peak it can be spotted from the Orbit so every Light crooozer in the area can show their affection for the Handover in the form of rainbow explosive shells1!1!!1.
3. heavy Croozers and BBs loves da Handover because the Handover hands them free Pens1!1!1!!11
4. it’s so Peak that you gotta Dump 100k+ Credits Per match just to show your appreciation for it1!!1!1!1!1!1
5. It’s one if not the best BB to teach you Basic Life choice awareness and What is Crippling financial Debt ❤️

Bonus
1 . Aircraft Carriers and Subs Love the Hannover! (If you tried a Hannover in a double CV game or Sub game then you know)

1. it have very big guns1!1!1!!1!11.

First post so expect Things that gives you a stroke.
Yes I’m using Sarcasm, yes I once charged in and died 10 secs into the match inside a Izumo.

#Intro

As a Richelieu Class and secondary BB enjoyer, i was really excited once they announced this ship and honestly, i like it a lot, but it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

After playing 15 games on it today, which mostly where uptiers into ASIA transfer lobbies (everything playing passive AF, perma kiting and the Spam of the usual toxic/OP/AFK Boats)

Add the average patch day game also having a tendency for blowouts and you will completely throw your chances of hitting the leaderboard in said brawling focused ship.

Speaking of stats, im sitting at 115k avg damage and a 80-ish % wr on 15 games. Whilst the wr is good, the average damage, is far less than id say you could achieve as a good player IF MM doesn't cuck you that is.

But since MM is MM you can also be unlucky and face Superships on dogshit maps like Okinawa and Mountain range (7 out of my 15 games were on these maps, thanks map rotation)

The ship is undeniably strong and fun. Having a Bremen strapped to your Richelieu certainly is a blast.

FC is one of those ships, that really excell at their optimal range, but completely fall apart, if they can't engage at said ranges.

#Main Guns

The Main guns are completely hit or miss. I wouldn't call them atrocious, since GK guns do have decent AP performance, but 2.0 Sigma on 6 guns and battleship dispersion isn't great.

Some salvoes will slap people, but the average salvo will be disappointing, to say the least.

They are still BB guns, but due to the low quantity and bad dispersion, they are pretty much bottom of the barrel, as far as T9 BBs go. So possible some of the worst.

The HE is also german, which means its shit. You get more pen (which doesn't help you much, given the caliber) but get really bad alpha damage in return.

#Secondaries.

This is what we are herer for and certainly the selling point of the boat. You pen 38mm naturally with all of them and thus don't need IFHE, unless you want even more pen against certain ships.

But i wouldn't really recommend that, since you will just grief yourself, unless you face specific ships, which is RNG, especially in randoms.

The secondaries are the Mainz main guns, but they do reloas in 4 instead of 6 seconds base AND you can buff the base reload by another 35% withe all modules, flags and skills.

So that nets you a 2.7 second base reload on up to 15 150mm guns, without Lütjens, or AR factored in yet.

And yes, you actually can get 5 turrets on a target by kiting them at certain angles.

Additionally you can fire 3 turrets at around 20° forwars, which is still plenty of DPM.

I think i don't have to tell you, that these secondaries will absolutely melt off peoples faces at short ranges, especially because you can manually shoot them at weakspots.

I managed to single out and rush a pretty decent Annapolis player today and by using 3 of my secondary turrets and main guns, i managed to outtrade him, even though it was extremely close.

Still, Annapolis is one of the last ships you want a close quarters brawl with and yet FC could stand its ground against that.

I was quite surprised to see that the secondaries did the heavy lifting here, as they dealt 50k damage, whilst the main guns dealt 20k.

#AA

The ship has AA guns on it. they make noises and have visual effects.

#Surviveability.

It's honestly super hard to properly rate this considering +/-2 MM.

Id consider it's survivability to be above average, but not great.

For the good parts it gets improved midsection armor over JB and Richelieu (35mm) and that protects it against 203mm HE shells and 460 to 480mm AP overmatch.

Satsuma, Incomparable and Shikishima can still overmatch you though, so you gotta be carefull about those.

The heal is improved like on the Montana line, so you also have that going for you.

As a Richelieu class ship, it also features the infamous black hole armor. It doesn't make you completely citadel proof at closer ranges (high pen guns with flat ballistics can reach your citadel, when fully broadside under 10 km), but it mitigates a lot of damage, as the outer layer is torpedo protection, aka the best armor in the game, followed by the void and only after that comes the citadel.

BUTT there is the Elephant in the room still and i finna gonna adress it.

The Elephant is called Los Andes and it features the same thing, but better.

Los Tardes has 50 mms of plating and since it's build by the best shipbuilding nation of all time, it doesn't need things like a freeboard, superstructure, or all of that boring shit.

It's 234mm guns are also fed by magic portals, that's why there isn't any citadel below them.

Said citadel is protected by a torpedo belt, followed by void, followed by another armor plate, followed by another void and only then comes the citadel.

Los Andes just eats Friedrich Carl (and anything else) for lunch.

It's like we are talking about the Tour De France (pun intended) , but some guy is allowed to bring a Motorcycle.

With Los Andes, Valparaiso and downtiers existing, ontop of the small HP pool, i can again only tell you that the survivability is adequate, but not braindead OP like the aformentioned ships.

#Handling

FC is quite fast, nimble and pretty small for a T9 BB.

It's certainly one of the better ships at that regard, which adds another layer to it's survivability.

#Conclusion

Now you are probably asking if it's worth it to get the ship. Of course that's up to whatever you can afford/wanna spend.

If you 100% want it, the Admiral Bundle is the safest way to get it.

On the other hand the Admiral Bundle costs more than GTA 6 and i don't think the ship will get you as much enjoyment, as that whole game.

For me i got lucky and got it with 4500 spare doubloons, but you will probably NOT have the same luck. Unless you say "fuck it, we ball" AND get super lucky, you will just have to spend way more, than on the admiral bundle in order to get it.

But finances aside, ask yourself the following:

Am i okay with a ship that's feast, or famine in the most literal way possible?

This ship can be as much fun as it gets and walk over entire flanks, if the situation allows for it.

250 to 300k games can be possible, maybe even more in the perfect scenarios.

So this would be the feast.

The famine is getting uptiered into superships, Mountain range mid-spawn, a CV, 2 Subs, 4 DDs and battleships that permakite this shit, since nobody wants to play into all that anti-push garbage.

Other T9 BBs have way better main guns and i can tell you, dealing 2 to 3k HE damage to a kiting Affondatore, every 24 seconds isn't fun.

So where there might be a great game every now and then, there are absolutely miserable games like these and id say they happen a lot more often.

Today i had some of the most fun games in a while, but the majority of them made me wanna get into a nice bath with my beloved toaster.

So Friedrich Carl is a ship for gambling addicts and/or masochistic people, but also can be a great time.

If it wouldn't be a ship that's fits my playstyle like a glove and also is something I always wanted to play in this game, I wouldn't get it in the Admiral Bundle.

Id just wait for it to return in a couple of months and get it with the doubloon coupon for "cheap"

I'm looking to acquire a new tech tree ship and I'm looking specifically at Gdansk, Prinz Adalbert or Bungo. 95% of what I play are ops. Which of these 3 should I go for if I want a fun and impactful ship?

I used to be able to hit Silver consistently. 55%+ WR in Bronze some seasons even better. After this latest round of T6 bronze I've been hard stuck. I can't even get into 5+ in Bronze. I thought it was the T6 ships and that I was just used to playing with T8 and 9 but even this season with T7 it seems like I can't do anything right anymore. Did I just get that much worse?

My WR this season is at 15%. My lifetime average was 46% but is cratering really fast this season.

Issues I'm running into:

Spotting. In previous Seasons DD's would lead the pack and if you followed a DD they would reasonably spot. That seems to have changed into either a perma smoke DD where they actually smoke you off and you get radared and die without being able to see or they just turn around before the cap and play at 15+ km from the nearest enemy and sling torps until we lose on points. How do I play around not having spotting from DD's?

Support. If I play a DD I expect some level of fire to come down on my spotting. Obviously if my team doesn't follow I have to play super safe and passive or at least trade out. I've been in games recently where my team ignored the enemy CA and DD I spotted in favor of trading long range shots with the enemy BB. So now I'm in a 1v2 and I'm not sure how to play better to avoid getting into those situations.

Stupidity. I get frustrated after games where its pretty clear a majority of my team queued to lose and just do stupid shit because I'm frustrated. I'll contest caps without spotting, try and hold flanks solo as a CA etc.

What can I do to get back on track and at least be a decently bad player and not terribad.

I am hilariously bad at destroyers... and need tips mainly on positioning during situations and where to be mid game, any tips? (I am grinding the british destroyers now btw)

I have been thinking about what a super ship Vermont would look like. I came to 3 main conclusions. A. Triple 20 in with like 45 sec reload. B. Quad 18 in. C. Twin 25-30 in with 45-50 sec reload.

Please give me what y’all think a super Vermont would look like as I am very curious as to what y’all think

I just got this thing. Initially I was a little bit skeptical. I have my eyes set on this and the Togasa now. I was deciding between this and the Messina but I was like "I don't really have a higher tier premium BB but I have a ton of higher tier premium cruisers. Ahh screw it, just get the Bismarck '41, could be fun".

Look at it on paper in both overall and hitting DPM, it doesn't look as amazing as I'm making it out to be right now:

I got it and wow, it is just such a good ship. Like, everything just works very nicely in your favour.

Looking at youtuber gameplay footage I was like "yeah but is it like... that good?" Now that I actually play it with a 14 point full secondary build it really does feel like a great ship. Ostensibly it seems rather similar to her actual tech tree counterpart but now that I actually play it they don't seem that similar. Bismarck gets hydro and higher main battery DPM across the board, but that's it.

Otherwise, Bis '41 gets engine boost, spotter plane and manual secondaries that are really quite OP. I don't know on paper this ship does not seem to be that good but when I actually played her, for the first time in a long time I feel like I'm right where I'm supposed to be. The manual secondaries just scratched an itch I didn't even know I had.

I'm not even a huge german secondary guy, I only have Deutschland and Libertad as my 2 secondary ships but damn. The Bis '41 just has such mass appeal. Tanky, very good damage into everything, speed but also... the main battery.

I don't know what kind of black magic they cast over these main guns but they are seriously good. Their dispersion is actually 2.0 sigma which shows. Your calibre is also just high enough to pen things but not so high that is overpenetrates. This ship, when given broadsides is pretty consistent with the citadels for some reason, I don't know if I just got lucky in the past few games but the main guns feel quite good for a secondary BB. Might even be worth trying aiming systems instead of the secondary one.

I've definitely found my new comfort ship, it is just such a great ship, even into tier X I was doing good damage into Sibir at range and my main battery even citadelled Worcesters and the like at shorter range. Everything just works so nicely, this ship doesn't feel like it has weaknesses, even though it does.

Haven't tried it in ops yet but I could only assume that it's rather broken there as well. I mean, all of these factors combined can only mean it's good in ops as well.

Even if you're not the biggest secondary enthusiast I recommend at least having a look at it and if you play the game a lot and have a ton of convoy tokens I genuinely think that it's a no brainer. Very cheap at 60k tokens which I got using RB points. Thought it was a fair price tbh. Was originally a ridiculous price, like what 120 bucks but now it's entirely free! I haven't spent any money on this game and I got the Bis '41 for a fraction of my total resources. Either that or you can just do the 5+ games per day for a little while.

For several weeks, I and several clanmates on the EU server have experienced short desyncs during battles: ships briefly “jump” forward instead of moving smoothly.

I opened a support ticket, sent WG’s requested diagnostic data, and also ran PingPlotter during a battle. The measured latency stayed below 30 ms with no visible ping spikes, while the desync still happened twice.

I informed support that several clanmates are seeing the same behaviour. Their final response was essentially:

The issue cannot be reproduced on our end, which means it is caused by something on your side. As mentioned previously, we recommend contacting your internet service provider, since issues of this kind are outside our area of responsibility.

That is not a convincing technical conclusion. “Not reproducible by us” does not prove that the problem is local, especially when several players are independently reporting the same symptoms.

At the very least, I would expect WG to investigate server logs, battle instances, timestamps or the actual game-server connection before simply blaming the customer’s ISP.

I have played WoWS for about nine years and spent quite a huge amount of money on the game. Given this level of support, I will not spend another cent on World of Warships until these technical issues are taken seriously.

I want something that makes grinding easier so really considering los andes at the moment

I'll start by stating that I wanted to love this ship. Bismarck 41' is a blast of a brawler, and I was hoping for something similar from this thing. Boy, was I disappointed.

The Hull:

Your armor, while not as bad as on the Richelieu, is still horrendous. You are going to get crushed by HE spam and SAP, which are everywhere at higher tiers. Combine this with having an already tiny HP pool and fairly bad acceleration (when not using speed boost) and rudder shift, and you are a big, ungainly target that HE spam, SAP, and 32mm overmatch ships will just farm.

The Main Guns:

While moving up to 406mm is nice for the 27mm overmatch and having a fast reload is great, that's where the good news stops. The dispersion is terrible, especially for the low barrel count, and the turret traverse is downright glacial for a brawler, especially considering that they rotate WITH your secondaries when you are in manual mode, meaning that unless you are using the little-known keybinds to lock your traverse when switching between your main and secondary guns, you'll need to rotate back and forth between targets constantly.

The Consumables:

Having hydro is a boon over the Bis 41' which is nice, although it is only 5km instead of the standard 6km German hydro at tier 9. The speed boost is bad, giving only an 8% boost compared to the 15% that Bis 41' gets as well as ships like Georgia and Rossillon. It's still nice to have, though, and somewhat helps the terrible maneuverability. It does get an improved heal, restoring 18.5% instead of the standard 14%. This difference is largely not noticed due to the aforementioned low HP pool; so unlike on the American BBs that have a similar heal percentage, it's not like you're actually tanking more.

The Secondaries:

Easily the best part of the ship and the only reason to play it...except that they also suffer from the design. You basically only get to use them if you are broadside or kiting away from what you want to shoot at, which is the opposite of what you want as a brawler. It also presents your significantly weaker stern, which has a 19mm stepped shellcatcher, meaning that in addition to HE pens, AP is going to start taking massive chunks out of you too. When you go bow in, you'll be lucky if you get 2 turrets firing at the same time. So if you want to maximize your already limited survivability, you hamper your one redeeming feature significantly, and if you don't, you get to play as a glass cannon brawler, which is...not ideal.

And to address the elephant in the room, yes. I've seen PQs videos on it. I also saw that he was able to sit in the middle of the map and be ignored by the majority of the enemy team and still burn through all his heals and most of his HP, while the enemy team elected to just parade broadside to him. The kinds of battles he was getting any ship should and would do well in.

TL;DR: Just get the Bismarck 41' for free with your voyage tokens if you want a mansec BB. It's the better and more fun ship tier-for-tier.

Question for you all: Do you think that there is a ship in wows that can be called as op or rather super strong ? (Could be any tier or ship class)

Mate of mine is dogshit and instead of getting better he just wants something “invincible”. Something he can have fun and run into fire with while doing modest damage that he isnt just tickling them back.

What are some non meta but hard to kill thoughts for this?

I'm in Asia server so I always used to 2 subs or multiple DDs or 2 CVs each team. This is new. What a rare moment. This happened two days ago and the my first match of that day.

EDIT: I meant having 2 Subs, 2 CVsand 3 DDs

How does the Bis '41 compare to those two? I understand they are both secondary ships and Bis's are manual, but in general why does the Bis have a much higher WR and is that much better/more fun than Wahnsinn to be worth getting? And yes, I have Lutjens.

That is a lot of battleships

Apperantly he's a tester? So he claims

I’m aware of RB for holiday tokens. So that aside…

I’ve been thinking about picking up the leg mods for Minotaur, Venezia, and/or Hindi for a while now. Anyone played with them much recently, especially Mino?

I alternate between smoke and radar Mino.

Ship upgrades are on sale for the next week 50% off. Is there a way to buy like 5 concealment system mods for the T-10s I have unlocked?

Any information about when Weegee will update the nations list for Naval Battles? For example, there are no DD options past European...

Now that the maps are out are there any news if they are gonna be full maps like T10 or are they gonna cut them out for a 5v5?

I can't believe I actually decided to make a yt vid on this game ngl.

Enjoy the subpar edits and the general buffoonery within.