It's the zipang, a concept from the dreadnought race era

Unfortunately Blyskawica was closed so just pictures from the pier. Still a great visit. Thanks to the museum and to Wargaming for helping fund it with their gaming room at the museum

No, I'm not underwater. Why do you ask?

So i decided to spill the 43k RP on the boat and I can't say it's a bad ship.

It's essentially the WOWS version of a sniper rifle.

You get essentially railguns and improved premium shells (SAP) with 6k alpha on a 12.3 second reload.

Ontop of that you get the ability to burst out a better Venezia Salvo in 1.32 seconds.

Downsides are a rather mediocre hull, bad concealment and having only 3 smokes available.

So it's AFK kiting in the early game and pushing in the late game.

It's very strong vs DDs, good against croooozers and mediocre vs BBs, but still better than the average crooozer against them.

Your AP is punchy and SAP is sap, plus it's easy to target specific areas of a ship, even at range.

However you get an absurd amount of overpens vs other cruisers and idk if it's because the impact angle is so flat, or because the fuse times are bugged, but you will overpen cruisers a lot.

Still for how mediocre the ship sounded to me, when it got announced, i gotta say it's more unique and fun than I thought.

Definetly not the worst purchase for RB and way more fun than Siegfried, or that Commonwealth T9 RB cruiser which is so irrelevant that i forgot it's name.

Im honestly very happy to see more RB ships at T9 especially and hope they will continue the trend.

More steel and coal ships are also welcome, as i don't bother buying 250+€ admiral bundles.

So something like La Spezia is more than welcome.

Also, Messina was found dead in a ditch, since La Spezia has almost the same SAP DPM, whilst being better in every way.

(Don't get Messina, its atrocious)

Can anyone explain this?

Those who have this ship what can you tell me about it? Is it good for ranked, can i tank bow in with 25mm?

I can't handle this op anymore. I just can't.

Omniscient armchair admirals of Reddit, how could I played this differently with your all seeing hindsight?

I'm very confused what the little zig-zagging torpedoes are on ships like St. Vincent. How are they different from normal torpedoes?

I know that when they came out, people were saying "auto-lock torpedoes", which I don't think is the case since they don't really lock onto anything nor avoid terrain. They just do the same zig-zag pattern and then start going straight. I've always known these torps were in the game, I just never found a proper explanation as to how they're different or if they're meant to have any unique effects or benefits.

Ran away!!

We had caps most of the game so by the time it was just me we still had 2 of 3 caps and the thirds wasn't even fully flipped to red yet. About 2:15 left in the game at that point and just did some quick math - was pretty sure just not dying was good enough. I think I was the 4th highest in base XP so not even top 3. Just played the caps, defended the BB's, ran away.

The only thing I did above average that game was just make good decisions.

I got these 2 ships in my priority cargo, but I don't know if they're worth buying since I couldnt find any recent information about the ships.

I enjoy playing the USN heavy CAs and the UK super lights, so I guess the question is what is the better ship?

Like do i juat play with it, I'll try to get others too but... I'm kind of lazy and will get get it really late...

No way to win, infinite enemies, no vision, unstopping spot light, Yamato boss in tier 7

I decided to go down the Italian destroyer tech tree to get the subs give the Italian ones A go. I haven’t quite figured out the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian destroyers.

Recently a buddy of mine started playing and was having a very dificult time understanding that just because something was a “destroyer” that it could mean many things, like being an HE spam-firing destroyer hunter, to a long range torpedo sniper.

He didnt have the game knowledge to read the stats or know the ships and identify this on his own, and maybe back when WOWS was a baby and the tech trees were much more restricted this worked just fine. But now tech trees are huge with split branches and its a lot for new players.

How would you feel about the addition of very simple “sub-classes” that more directly defines the role of a ship at a glance, like a brawler BB vs a fast BB?

Is this redundant? Or do you think it would find use for new players, or even old players!

(Icons made by me with 0 AI use)

If you could buy Datong or Philips van Almonde, and had no existing captains or other ships in those nations, which one would you pick, and why?

Thanks.