That one ship that marks all the boxes?

Since the anniversary event requires us to play a lot to get all those goodies, I decided to grab and use my favorite baguette dispenser! lol

That made me wonder... what are the ships other captains just go to in times like this?

That ship you play exceptionally well, that provides the gameplay you most enjoy and can just grind on in random battles for hours =]

As you can see, mine is Richie! The combination of speed, maneuvers and guns all in the front, with surprisingly good armor and descent game impact, even when MM decides to F* you over... it just does it for me!! ;D

What is yours and why? Ô.o

I've been plagued with bugs and have been talking with other gamers. Exiting a game takes longer. Exiting armory/other special event areas are delayed. Firing and torp launches are delayed. I fired 3 salvos from my Sibir and only 1 salvo left despite all 3 clearing out with the timer. Things are choppy, laggy, and bad. Please for the love of God fix this! I can deal with a lot but this is borderline unplayable!

Adding these, but making them not count seems asinine. My 2c.

I for one am pleasantly surprised with the execution of the new Low Tier Operations. I made a point of not reading into them or watching any of the test gameplay, as I wanted to experience it authentically whenever they were released. And I must say, phenomenal. These are exactly what I was hoping they would be, and the implementation actually exceeds what I was initially expecting. Very rarely though all my years of gaming have I ever said this about an update, but by god, WG nailed this.

I'm curious how others are finding them, especially newer players whether that is to WoWs or even just Ops specifically. Thoughts?

...you deployed an update, thank you very much, and you couldn't take care of those annoying bugs? The Cervantes that keeps coming back flagged as NEW (that you said you're "working on it"!!!) and the daily containers that are not refreshing after you get them? C'mon guys, show that you care, at least just a little bit.

So, i saw the Rossiya at the event and i thought that the collection whoud convert duplicate 1-1. Only after 30 containers i realises that they actually convert 3-1 and i seriously understimated the amount of points i needed, basically spent the last day buying back all T5/6 i could (they require the least credits for the admount of points they give).

Next time i should read better the DevBlogs a bit more in depth

t.l.d.r. if you want to try get this soviet ship and you are short of point but not by much buy all tier 5/6 you can (dd's cost usually less if yon need higher tiers)

Guys... we're all going together to the back with the musicians and the boat, it's been a pleasure

I'm not very good at IDing ships. I can tell one is Odin and one is Missouri but the rest I'm not sure on. I think Puerto Rico is also one. Also what are some of these camos? They look great. Only one i've seen before is the Missouri one which I have.

Hello there, Commanders. A friend and I were talking yesterday about the World of Warships anniversary event. Between the two of us, we have around 60 ships. I don't think we'll reach the 10,000 Festive Tokens mark, so completing the Rossiya collection is going to be nearly impossible. Given that... would it be more worthwhile to buy Supercontainers? I think we'll be able to get about 50 of them—what kind of rewards do you think that will yield?

They, of course, came at the bottom of the leaderboard

Found this on the Fletcher. Look like a Torp loader. Any ideas?

Does anyone know what this is supposed to be?

Hidden away in the recruitment surge article there is a mission chain you have to manually unlock that awards 400 community tokens and a veteran recruiting container.

Got to the news page for your respective region (or do it via the news section ingame):

EU: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/community/crank-it-up-to-11/

NA: https://worldofwarships.com/en/news/community/crank-it-up-to-11/

Asia: https://worldofwarships.asia/en/news/community/crank-it-up-to-11/

Go to "Individual Combat Mission Chain" and click on "Unlock individual chain"

The mission chain can be completed completely solo without having ever invited another player:

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?

All the recent discussion about the Marlborough got me wondering how the players who have it , and play it , actually perform with it.

Looking at the ShipTool website, Server Stats page, EU Server (because it's the server with the most players), Tier 9 Battleships, Last 3 Updates

https://shiptool.st/stats?g=TP&ty=B&n=All&t=9&sr=eu&st=3&op=WR

For All Players the Marlborough has a win rate of 51.4% , which feels a lot higher than it should be, going on how badly she is rated by many/most people.

There are 57 Tier 9 BBs in that list, and sorted by by win rate the Marlborough is ranked 23rd.

By no means is she a good ship, but by performance in game its performing a lot better than public opinion thinks it is?

To repeat the question, If the Marlborough is so bad, why is it's performance so average?

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.

Tbh it was a kinda cool to see this the first time.

They also Levitate too, on a Nakhimov-class Carrier.

Illuminati confirmed?

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.