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Yeah… It’s weird though because those Atago and Chitose skins are pretty ancient and not all that spicy by todays standards. Guess someone got caught with those 5 specifically and a complaint was made to Google play or whatever.

Not sure how you have no likes, but I changed that. Because this is the issue that people are too blind to see or refuse to see: AL is losing the identity it once had.

You misspelled "Sardegna" there. Also, HMS's last *major* event was in 2023.

@lordkfc1297 nah Sardegna will get febuary slot with cn anni going to the usn

@@vikinggamer9545 could be, but HMS has the same, if not more chances, to get one of the first 2 UR events of 2025.

@@lordkfc1297 yeah but i expect nothing for them and well the hints at the end of this event are pointing towards lexington revival and marco polo going insane again

​@lordkfc1297 Zero to Hero was an HMS event, and was in 2024. And was the event that had the Anson incident.

Surface ships rather, and this is still excluding auxiliary cruisers (11 of them that include Widder, Pinguin and Kormoran), auxiliary ships like repair ship Huascaran, icebreaker Eisbär, training sailing ship Horst Wessel (now USCGC Eagle that is still in active service as I have spoken) and fleet tender / aviso Hela whose very hull was broken up in 2022 in Crimea, and captured enemy ships like ZH1 Gerard Callenburgh My gosh, still allergic those Commanders (except moi and the devs) are to the U-boats, who are still denied their oath skins!

Still better than Unzen, who apparently is literally a footnote in a ship building request for new cruisers- she doesn't even have a blueprint to fall back on like a good chunk of Iron Blood.

@@Practitioner_of_DiogenesDoesn’t help that the Japanese destroyed nearly all prewar-and wartime records pertaining to projects and plans. Unzen is supposed to be WoWs Zao’s sister under the Cruiser 1941 project. But like how we literally got lucky with the Japanese not burning their 510mm gun documents they did have we found small amounts of information on what Zao/Unzen was.

@@timber_wulf5775 the problem with Unzen is that the design she is based on is just one of the several variants for a heavy cruiser design that never even left the drawing table. She is the prequel to paper ships😂

@ Unzen is younger than Heinrich and Adalbert though? There were a good handful of paperships added to the game prior to her.

A handful of the Royal Navy KAN-SENs so far also sported the HMCS prefix: Comet (HMCS Restigouche), Crescent (HMCS Fraser that didn't last a full month when she collided with light cruiser HMS Calcutta and sank on June 25, 1940), Cygnet (HMCS St. Laurent), Fortune (HMCS Saskatchewan), Foxhound (HMCS Qu'Appelle) and Hero (HMCS Chaudiere)

Oh for sure story wise it makes sense even if this current event felt a little bit like a bait-and-switch. Not sure I fully agree with IB and SE being the main driving force but they have each been at the centre of a story ‘arc’ and depending on where the writers decide to go it’s also liable to change.

Ehhh, the history of the ships takes precedence over the plot for many I imagine.

Well AL's story began as a pseudo-recreation of WW2, it took them like two years for them to ditch that in favor of a more original story

True, like memphis meta is a master hacker and pretty powerful, but in game she is doodoo (even if i oathed her as my first ship and basically have her at lv 120)

The meat ships are: the final boss when you fight him vs. When you unlock him as a playable character.

@@RealCtc Right, Helena meta is literally controlling the sirens and can travel between pseudo-dimensions. Hiryuu meta is literally a one man army taking out siren fleets by herself… C tier at best

Eagle Union, Iron Blood, Sakura Empire, and Royal Navy

​@@araarashinigami Supposedly, though Royal Navy doesn't get much updates, in comparison to the other 3. So really, now, it's the big 3

Having 2 UR events in the spam of a month is a horrible idea, that is why people oppose it. Also, EN is the least important server both in revenue and in players so it makes sense that we don't have a UR event when the JP anny is a month after ours.

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@@lordkfc1297 There is virtually no difference when it comes to resources spent. Saying "people think 2 URs in a short time span is a bad idea" doesn't mean it's actually a bad idea nor is it an argument. EN still drops a whole new event with completely new ships that you will spent varying amounts of cubes and coins for. If you already have to drop Gacha currency, you may as well drop it for a UR. Not only would this make the EN Anni complete, but it would also gives us an additional UR slot that could be used for any faction (unlike the JP Anni UR slot). With how much they have increase their investment for the EN Anni over the years and how they are making it bigger and bigger, a UR seems inevitable anyway. They might as well get over with it and establish the EN Anni as the 5th UR slot in a year

@@meto9552 You are quite wrong pal. But to answer your main "points": A) A regular event has much better rate-ups compared to a UR one because the UR ship has only a 1.2% chance of dropping. Also regular events are the ones people tend to skip in order to save cubes, which you need a minimum of 400 per UR event in order to guarantee the drop. Also, bullins are really limited for newer players so increasing the number of UR ships from 8(double UR events) to 9 will only make the problem worse. Not to mention that completely eliminating the rest period between URs will, again, hit newer players the hardest since they won't have time to recuperate between events. You would be forcing them to choose one of the two events. B) JP dwarfs Global in revenue, to the point that it is not even funny. There are dozens of reddit posts that compile all the revenue, month by month, since 2017 that clearly show this. In September 2024 JP made 41.100.000$ compared to Global's 18.110.000$. So you are plain wrong on both accounts.

@@meto9552 "With how much they have increase their investment for the EN Anni over the years and how they are making it bigger and bigger, a UR seems inevitable anyway. They might as well get over with it and establish the EN Anni as the 5th UR slot in a year" Not to burst your bubble but the EN anny is the one with the least effort put into it, just watch a CN or JP anniversary livestream and see for yourself xD. They are not going to break their 3 month schedule for UR events. And no, a UR for En anniversary is not inevitable at all, especially a gacha one. But you are free to delude yourself in this manner, though you will be disappointed.

This is precisely why Global doesn't have a UR event on their anniversary, we simply spend less and are thus not the priority. Something I am perfectly fine with btw.

this isnt true. JP sales declined precipitously post-pandemic, and global regularly outspents them on in game purchases currently. the only advantage JP has is merch sales, but this is largely due to shipping and distribution constraints. if products were offered abroad as conveniently as they are in Japan, the different here would fade away as well. the reality is there is no good financial reason for the favoritism Sakura receives.

Historically, Canada was part of the British Empire as a member of the Commonwealth, almost never betraying the mother Crown and thus dragged along with UK and other Commonwealth member-states.

@royasturias1784 while yes that is indeed true, during ww1 was when Canada started to distant itself from Britain and become a self sufficient country. If I'm not mistaken, it was during the 1st world war that Canada made its own navy and military seperate from the rest of the Commonwealth. While we still r apart of the Commonwealth to this day, we r also an independent country. By the end of WW2, RCN had the 3rd largest naval fleet in the world. During the 2nd world war RCN had rapidly expanded its naval fleet w ships transferred from the royal navy and US Navy. RCN had over 1,140 warships under its command during WW2. Remember that while the USA fought a war to become separate from Britain, Canada cast a vote to become independent. It was decided that Canada wud become independent while still having the benefit of being in the Commonwealth. I think this warrants RCN being added in as the 5th main faction. Even if most of the ships they get r 2nds like Laffey 2, but maybe w the new names they may have gotten. Wat we need now is to have HMCS added into the game and have a Canadian event each year that lands on Canada day.

@@baileydombroskie3046 Problems: 1. Such quantity of those warships was composed of mostly escort ships, a couple of light cruisers (of Crown Colony-class), a couple of Lend-Lease escort carriers (of Bogue-class made/converted in the USA) and zero proper capital ships. 2. Inadequate cultural distinctiveness, when the habitable provinces of Canada are basically Britain and America Lite, save Québec that is France Lite 3. A supposed combat doctrine of throwing nothing but those small warships (destroyers and below) into the grinder (Zerg-rushing) is not feasible with how the fleet set-ups work in the game proper. 4. RCN doesn't have the big bully aura if ever it goes its own way. 5. The game itself already has RCN representation in destroyers Comet, Crescent, Cygnet, Fortune, Foxhound and Hero.

@@royasturias1784 u know when u bring that up, u do make some really damned gud points. However I still believe that smaller countries like Italy that barely if at all participated during either world war and have not much more destroyers, cruisers, carriers, and battleships then Canada had don’t deserve representation as its own faction and not Canada. While Canada’s main source of important in any war has been on land, particularly on foot, and to great extent, it did indeed participate complementary in the sea supporting its allies. When I look it up on the wikia, it becomes clear that in terms of sea warfare during the world wars, Canada took it to the extremes of providing support and utility to its allies over any upfront confrontation. This cud be utilized ingame as a way to make Canada have it own separate faction while playing to its historical experience of support and utility. The HMCS ships cud be mainly focused on their support and utility such that they make up for any lack in offence or defender given the appropriate context. I’m going to be honest, reading thru all those haul types, I’m learning of new warship categories. But based on quick reading, it appears many of those types r used for less medal worthy activities. Bringing the RCN into the game proper cud make for some unique and interesting gameplay variations and ways to make fleets more specialized and interesting play patterns. The RCN cud provide much needed spice the fleetbuilding that we r lacking due to the powercreep (on both shipgirls and enemies) and design.

Forgetting about the 3 Canadian Queen Elizabeth class battleship that would be PR along with Yukon from World of Warships

Do you even play the game? In the world of Azur Lane, World War 1 and World War 2 NEVER HAPPENED. The Axis and Allies NEVER EXISTED. Why? Because the sirens invaded. The kansen were created BECAUSE of the appearance of the sirens and the energy cubes after the Tunguska impact, NOT because of WW1/WW2.

The Chinese ships are here because the factions represent the Major powers of WWII. China is often counted as one of them (I mean that's the reason why they have a permanent seat on the UN security council - so it's quite official). And designing a new logo for a faction with 10 vanguard ships is not economical.They could include them with the one of the other factions though.

They listen to CN because Cn players spend the most money on the game, simple as that.

Honestly, Polish Navy (Free or not) was more reactionary, and Poland as an independent(-ish) and sovereign nation was born again after WW1. Brazil, Sweden and Türkiye (also Ottoman Empire) has had more accumulated years of naval tradition to brag about for each country than Poland. Poland never screamed big bully armada, with the burden of many territorial vicissitudes / variations over many years.

@@lordkfc1297 Yes, but that should only affect the CN version of the game- CN crying shouldn't affect the English version of the game at all, especially not at the expense of characterization.

So HMS has it worse despite their last event, a UR one that gave them one of the best carriers in the game, being last year huh? It is not like the las mayor SE event was in 2022 right? or that they still have 0 gacha URs right? The only faction that had it worse than Sardegna was Iris.

I can't say I completely agree, but yes I find it incredibly funny that Iron Blood seems to get so many events despite having a much smaller navy than RN during WW2. Well, at least RN has Plymouth, Implacable and Unicorn (she may be "only" a retrofitted elite ship but she's damn good at her job and is basically a UR in terms of her abilities) as meta ships. Which is a good thing, because they also have two of the worst URs in the game, Drake and Warspite. And no one can forget the huge debacle that was HMS Anson, which looked NOTHING like her KGV sisters. It was so obvious that she was a reused design, probably from a sub. And now we'll probably never get to see HMS Anson because her name has been forever tainted. And RN has gotten really crappy augments too, KGV's and Victorious' barely do anything. Anyway I feel that RN is probably the most mistreated out of all the major factions, but I think Sardegna is still the worst treated faction overall. Even their first UR Napoli isn't really impressive, being a jack of all trades but master of none in a game that has 3 vanguard slots, which rewards specialization more.

@@WadeWontson Don't forget Vanguard, one of the best buffers in the game.

@@lordkfc1297 that reminds me of how bad the French had it until last year when they finally started getting proper events again which culminated in Alsace's event, something the french were long overdue for. Now the same needs to happen for Sardegna.

@@WadeWontson we can only hope

That and the sweet money they make with WoWs through their collab, plus the publicity.

PRs are largely for the player crossover, trying to draw more WoWs players to AL and vice versa. If they were meant to cover the disparity, we wouldn't have any EU ships, and we'd have gotten some of the Chinese and German ships FAR earlier. Immelman and Richtofen have been in WoWs for about 4 years now, they've had ample opportunity to fill the gap and give them a UR CV, instead we get a ship that's just as paper from gatcha.

The prediction of Littorio Mk II and Giuseppe Garibaldi Kai (conversion to missile cruiser) is still up there.

2025 jp anniversary would be vanguard and in 2026 it would be main because: 2020: shinano (main) 2021: shima (van) 2022: musashi (main) 2023: unzen (van) 2024: amagi 2 (main) 2025: ??? (van) 2026: ??? (main)

​@@YarIsGoober nowadays they do double UR events, so I don't think that pattern will hold.

@laju6398 im pretty sure sakura never got double ur event plus ur dds don't matter much since they are not part gacha

@@YarIsGoober Considering they are already building Yamato in the story it is quite likely that the 2025 JP anny will indeed bring Yamato, especially considering that the playerbase is getting increasingly tired of waiting as shown in this years JP anny. And that was with such a loved and expected character as Amagi.

@@lordkfc1297 Possible, it's indeed possible as Montana COULD be the new UR to the EU as she was more of a development to NC rather than Iowa (Iowa served as development for South Dakota) or it's just being a schizo

I agree.

Yostar doesnt have the choice. It’s manjuu’s decision. The only time yostar is allowed to make there own choices anymore is during anniversaries and censorship (or lack there of). They used to make there own release schedule and all that bcuz the English version that they give us was a year behind the Chinese and Japanese, but once yostar got the English servers caught up to the Chinese, they have yet to deviate from them outside of specific things like anniversaries. IIRC It took like 2 years give or take for yostar to have the english servers catch up w all those unhinged adjustments to the schedule. I can remember starting a prelude 1 week into a 2 week event just to start a whole new 2 week event immediately after the current 1 ended. We were getting like 20+ major events a year. Shit was brutal.

Bro i play this game bcuz perseus . Time stamp ? Which he mention about perseus ?

They really thought they could get away with that design and no one would notice.

I’m still pissed they got rid of anson bcuz ppl didn’t like her original design. Some pointed out that some of the details on the revealed design looked like it shud have been for another shipgirl and not anson. I’m personally sick and tired of far too many big tiddy shipgirls these days so I was fine w it even it isn’t 100% lore accurate. I loved anson’s design I want it to be used on some1. I’m hoping they don’t let her design go to waste of it.

I am genuinely curious what their train of thought was when they decided that should be Anson. They somehow made her look more out of place than the one who was written to be ‘the reject.’

@@baileydombroskie3046 There would have been 0 problem if they had used the design for HMS Sunfish instead of a KGV battleship.

@@JayKayway Most likely the artist either messed up the IRL ship or, as happened before, they couldn't finish the original design and decided to reuse this one. They already did this with Otto von Alvenslieben.

At least the us is indifferent to that issue because of the ridiculous size of the irl thing, but the British are in an actual problem, they can still get some good ssr and even a couple of ur if they manage what they still have, but I fear that they eventually would become what the iron blood is right now, just a bunch paperwork

@@d.olivergutierrez8690 If it was mini events with just Destroyers, Destroyer escorts and Subs then I think HMS would be fine. We still have 100's of Destroyers from HMS to add, Light Cruisers aren't too far behind either. All HMS needs to worry about are Capital ships, though they still have a reasonable number of CV's to go through yet but they can all be reserved for Major events.

@d.olivergutierrez8690 umm they would if this was the Cold War but HMS still has F.E a lot of aircraft carriers 4 Malta 4 Audacious 1 Vanguard CV Conversion (PR) 1 Implacable 1-3 RN Essex class (PR) - an actual idea looked at the CW 1 Admiral CV Conversion (PR) 1 Furious subclass Courageous 1 Courageous 1 Hermes subclass Centaur CVL 3 Centaur CVL - (PR) 1 Centaur CVL 10 Majestic - (5 HMS, 2 HMCS & 2 HMAS and 1 HMIS) 15 Colosuss - (9 RL HMS, 4 HMS PR, 1 HMAS and 1 HMCS) 1 Hawkins CVL Conversion 48 Escort Carriers In Heavy Cruisers, it may seem we have 3 Surrey and 4 Kent plus the 5 Hawkins left but that's factually wrong as we have 5 PR York class, 6 PR Kent and 3 PR Norfolk which never got built when 16 County class ships were planned but that number is a revision down from 19 which itself is a revision from the original plan of 40 County class cruisers. AL can do 7 York, 40 County and 5 Hawkins and that excludes all the PR designs, with the PR they have more but unlike IB, you can justify doing the 5 PR York and 40 County (13 RL and 27 PR) because this is what the Royal Navy was planned before the politicians meddled where they shouldn't as under the treaty, the British could have 40 10,000 ton County class in 10 Kent, 10 London, 10 Norfolk and 10 Surrey and that would not have broken any rules AL has not even touched the 510 Corvettes, 445 Frigates and 315 Sloops that HMS+CW had

@MarkEvan1981 it would be Destroyers, Escort Destroyers, Frigates, Sloops and Corvettes as the Royal Navy classified Destroyer Escort type warships as frigates

Umm you might want to consider how many battleship, battlecruiser and large cruiser designs HMS has

Don't forget those recent dull-arse minor events, because Heaven forbid the one re-enactment of the Indian Ocean assault (after the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse) that embarrassed HMS. Still missing in the HMS naval civ (+ HMAS, HMNZS, HMCS) are the Tiger-class CLs (most viable UR candidates), the Hawkins-class CAs (specifically Effingham and the multirole Vindictive), the two concept Surrey-class CAs, HMS Barham, HMS Courageous, HMS Furious herself, HMAS Sydney of the Amphion-class, HMS Orion of the Leander-class being the most decorated light cruiser, HMS Cumberland of the County-class (who was just a mention), HMS Campbeltown (a Lend-Lease outdated destroyer built first by Americans), HMS Pretoria Castle that was an escort carrier, the War Emergency Programme attack subs (Spearfish, Trident, Upholder, Venturer...), and more.

@@royasturias1784 you forgot HMIS and HMSAS plus the ships of WW2 vintage that were part of former colonies's future navies

@@Knight6831 HMIS before 1947 had no viable warships bigger than corvettes and sloops, while HMSAS before 1950 had no warships bigger than the 3 Loch-class frigates and the 2 River-class frigates. Excluded

> HMIS before 1947 had no viable warships bigger than corvettes and sloops, while HMSAS before 1950 had no warships bigger than the 3 Loch-class frigates and the 2 River-class frigates. Excluded You cannot just exclude them just because the Royal Indian Navy only had corvettes and sloops and the South African Navy had only had frigates as AL would count the WW2 ships they used post war meaning they are not excluded plus India and Pakistan ships would be put together like the 2 Chinas

The EU has a lot of potential ships, which is great for them as there's literally tons of characters they can make, with three Iowas, the new Mexico class, the New York class, and Montana class for just battleships alone. That becomes a problem when you realize just how few ships most other navies had, on the other hand.

To my knowledge Manfred and her sister ship are entirely made up for WoWS, not a real design so unless it’s through a future PR wave it’s unlikely she shows up here

@JayKayway ahh well that shucks. Because the character inspiration is already there. A serious hot temper pilot

Save those what-if World of Warships candidates in their own designated annual events.

Trusting the prelude ships is a fool's errand, they have misguided the community for years. Like one time where all the prelude ships where from a different faction from the one of the actual event