It's too early to have any concrete plans for the moment. Even the first European line is not final now. (We had cases where we moved ships after announcement of the line)
But, at least you can see which nations are represented in that tree right now and make predictions.
And why is that a problem, though?
It's great that we can get enough ships from one nation to showcase the evolution of destroyers there.
Destroyers from other european nation can also appear in that tree.
Update 0.9.0 will begin the British event arc with early access to British heavy cruisers.
Players will get British tokens for completing Directives, Daily combat missions and from Daily Shipments. These may be exchanged in the armory for random bundles. Four bundles will feature Tier V-VIII British heavy cruisers Hawkins, Devonshire, Surrey and Albemarle with the "Victorian White" permanent camouflage. Other bundles will have camouflages, special signals, Coal, and other rewards. Besides bundles in exchange for tokens, there will also be bundles for Doubloons.
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, two permanent camouflages with special horn sounds were added for Wukong and Bajie. Siliwangi will get a Lunar New Year permanent Camouflage. Two new commanders Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, patches, and flags were added. Lunar New Year containers will be available: they can drop Pan Asian premium ships, permanent camouflages for them, Doubloons, and other rewards.
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Read moreWe should dicuss politics and deterrance, but what I wanted to point out - those ships were real, they existed, and their inclusion in Europe tree (instead) of Swedish one was made to the benefit of the players - commanders will be more useful and interchangeable, for example.
A researchable European Tier I cruiser, Tier II-X destroyers, as well as a European special Tier X destroyer 'Småland' will be added to the game in the upcoming super test session. Polish, Austro-Hungarian and Swedish ships are among them.
Currently, the concept of European destroyers brings the following features:
Very fast torpedoes with relatively low damage and long range;
Artillery is similar to that of American destroyers: quite effective in close combat but weaker than that of artillery-focused destroyers;
The speed of the new destroyers is relatively low: 35 knots at Tiers VII - X. It can be increased by an Engine Boost consumable found in a dedicated slot, giving a standard bonus of 8%;
Starting from Tier VII, the AA defense of European destroyers has a large area of effect and deals good damage;
Presence of Repair Party: at Tiers V - VIII it is the same as on British destroyers, and at Tiers IX and X this consumable will be active for 4 seconds longer... Read more
It allows cruisers to pen Tier X cruisers central parts without running IFHE.
Alaska is Tier IX, and her armor is stronger than usual CA armor - 36 mm deck and 28 strip, so her central part armor won't change.
I'd also like to add that CA2-D is not an Alaska with minor changes. In fact the changes are major - she's a bigger ship, she better protection, different cecondaries, more guns, and so on.
They'll be looked at during following tests.
It's still to early to discuss anything about that, those changes may as well not happen, so let's leave this question for later.
As you know, free skill resets do happen quite frequently, tied to clan battle seasons.
I'd like to stress that this changes are not final, and are in fact a proof of concept, so talking about individual ships is too early, but, if needed, we may buff them together with those changes.
You win if you have more points when being mutually rammed.
I't s right there in the PT article:
It will.
Can you provide WGCheck report for PT client?
You can still get ifhe for even more penetration, but 58 mm would be okay for most targets.
Ifhe for Henri and Hindenburg are different since there are much more ships you'll be able to pen with increased peneteration on Henri, compared to IFHE Hindenburg. IJN (not Yamato) German BB's.
Increasing pen for Hindenburg allows you to pen decks of Sov. Soyuz, Kremlin and Yamato. Friedrich der Grosse's 80mm deck remains unpenetrable for most cruiser's HE.
Also, meta for Ranked and Clan battles is different for random and, you may be required to counter some specific ships.
German cruiser Mainz, tier VIII:
Main caliber turret traverse speed increased from 6.0 to 7.6 degrees/second.
Mainz's turret traverse speed will be the same as Nurnberg's.
Italian cruiser Gorizia, tier VII:
Main battery reload time was lowered from 16.5 to 15 s.
The change will increase the cruiser's combat efficiency and will make playing it more comfortable.
British heavy cruisers:
Main battery reload time was increased:
Hawkins, tier V: from 13 to 14 s;
Devonshire, tier VI: from 12 to 14 s;
Surrey, tier VII: from 11 to 13 s;
Albemarle, tier VIII: from 12 to 14 s;
Drake, tier IX: from 14 to 16.5 s;
Goliath, tier X: from 17 to 19.5 s.
Shell parameters were changed:
HE shells of 190 mm caliber:
Maximum damage was increased from 2,650 to 3,050;
Chance of causing fire was increased from 13% to 15%;
HE shells of 203 mm caliber (except London, tier VI):
Maximum damage was increased from 2,850 t...
Read moreYou can you expendable camos on Black ships.
We are currently looking into cases where reworked for HDR maps may look too bright.
It would be great to get more information from you if you came across that. Preferably in PM, so it won't get lost.