Comments on: World of Warships Models Leaked – USA

By: Yuri_Yslin

Yuri_Yslin — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:03:38 +0000

So, will there be Montana at tier X, or not?

By: hawkeye92

hawkeye92 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:40:58 +0000

Well from what I can gather she was actually built as a tender for the US Navy’s airships, then started carrying seaplanes of her own. The planes she could carry were actually pretty big; the Curtiss NC broke two records- one for carrying the most people on an aeroplane (51) then being the first plane to ever fly transatlantic.
I would imagine you could feasably arm them with a load of bombs (although operated mainly in peacetime I don’t think they were ever significantly armed) which could well make a mess of low tier ships since they simply had virtually no AA weaponry.

The first example of an air launched torpedo was on 12th of august 1915, from a Short seaplane carried by HMS Ben-My-Chree (the British tier one ship) at a German cruiser, with the first confirmed sinking on the 17th (the first target had already been fatally crippled by a submarine) so by the time this american ship is around they could be quite dangerous indeed.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:01:56 +0000

I was under the impression seaplanes were nigh exclusively reconnaissance assets (which is why actual combat ships tended to have a few too). You’re not exactly going to be sinking many a cruiser with that lot.

By: Katyusha

Katyusha — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:18:35 +0000

Oh my god yes predreadnought cruisers! hhhhhhnnnnnnngggggg I need these so much.

By: Katyusha

Katyusha — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:18:00 +0000

Compare the render of North Carolina to the official WoWS screenshots. They’re identical. These are most definitely the legit WoWS ships.

By: Bluenose

Bluenose — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:36:49 +0000

North Carolina Class Battleship had :-
9 × 16 in (406 mm)/45 caliber Mark 6 guns
20 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber Mark 12 guns

Yamato Class Battleship had :-
9 x 46.0 cm (18.1 in) guns (3×3).
12 × 15.5 cm (6.1 in) guns (4×3).
12 × 12.7 cm (5 in) guns (6×2).

These are directly comparable in both range and firepower, The difference is negligible, And if you’re making this comment through some stupid form of Japanese loyalty or Japanophilia then just remember America kicked the Japanese Navy’s ass.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:28:53 +0000

Yeaaaaaahno.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty#Terms
Do you take the signatories for complete retards or something? :|

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:22:19 +0000

“– their collective nature proved extremely superior to European individualism”
What the actual fuck am I reading.
Seriously.
For one make that “culture”; for another, remind me again how many European states were *actually* industrialised as late as the mid-1800s?
Not an awful many in fact.
Yet for example Germany which didn’t even exist as an unified state before 1870 had caught up with the early-starter British by the turn of the century (and this despite being an overwhelmingly agrarian nation as late as WW2), and the French weren’t too far behind despite having been dealt a rather bad hand in terms of relevant raw materials and an economy more oriented for “value added” agricultural products.
And the Americans were still busy pushing the natives out of the way (and fighting a nasty little domestic spat on the side) around the time the Japanese got started on modernising; it took a few decades more before they actually had the continent to themselves and could get down to *seriously* playing with economies of scale.
And the Soviet Five-Year Plans, for all their terrible human cost, did quite the job dragging Russia kicking and screaming into the industrial age in barely two decades; should this also be taken as indicative of the Russians’ “superior collective nature” perhaps?

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:09:07 +0000

Low-tier aircraft carrier.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:08:27 +0000

“…considering how fast Japan had to industrialise itself and compete with Western Imperialism its a sign that their Collective nature proved extremely superior to European individualism.”

Watch out, we’ve got ourselves a Weeaboo here! XD

How does that collectivism stand up to a pair of nuclear bombs dropped on two major industrial centers? Not very well, apparently.