Arlios I'm surprised you actually decided to grind RN CLs after that video you did on them! Don't worry though, the fact that you were sailing one of HM's Ships makes up for your mistakes tenfold in our eyes 😉
Jingles, the rabbit hole goes deeper. Rumor has it that the Tier 8 King George V is ONLY going to have 15inch guns. A tier 7 premium is going to have 14inch ones. Also, let's keep the Big Seven at tier 7.
Re: the 1927 vs. 1945 configuration comment: 1) The guns embedded in the hull are called "casemate" guns. 2) The Nelsons never had any casemated guns; they had the 3 twin 6" guns on each side aft from the outset. Also, Nelson's torpedo tubes were below the waterline, so we wouldn't see any evidence of them from this video. The King George V's 14-inch guns were really good guns. Here's the broadside weight (total weight of shells fired in a broadside) for other Tier 8 battleships, firing AP: KGV: 15,900 lbs. Bismarck: 14,112 lbs. Amagi: 22,050 lbs. North Carolina: 24,300 lbs. The KGV guns might have been smaller than their compeers, but whenever they were put to the test, they did the job and did the job superbly.
The 14 inch guns were enough to deal with any battleship bar the Yamato they penetrated the bismark several times and absolutely annihilated the sharnhorst
And yeah Jingles, we're not "diving deep into the realms of fantasy" when talking about about the KGV 15 inch guns. There was a planned refit for 15 inch guns with some really quite impressive characteristics.
MrFatcat17 actually the original design was worked up with three triple 15", it was the preferred option but the upcoming treaty negotiations had a 14" limit with a 16" escalator clause and negotiations wouldn't work of you were building ships with bigger guns than you were proposing to limit ships to. so they switched from three triple 15" to three quad 14", but the additional weight meant the B turret had to drop for a twin and thus you get the historically built KGV. After they started building the escalator clause came in and all future designs were for 16"
Drachinifel its nice to see someone knows their history, people think the kgv class was exempt from the treaty rules but the amended 1936 London treaty meant that she had the 14 inch guns (the yanks used the clause to go 16 inch) and really the extra 10000 tons was good (and the 14 inch guns had more krupp penetration than the 15 inch). For Britain the treaty ended September 3rd 1939 :)
Actually Jingles, the wrongly tiered images were a mess up on WGs part. KGV was intended to be tier 8 and Nelsol intended to be tier 7 from the start. They just goofed when it came to making the stat cards. KGV with 14" guns might play a bit like a tier 8 Scharnhorst.
1. Wargaming has copied _King George V_ in all respects, changed the gun stats to 14", and stuck her at tier 7 as _Monarch_. This includes the credit and XP prices, which has confused just about everyone. If she's a placeholder name for a premium, why doesn't she have a gold price? 2. When you actually look at the data on the 14" guns (not the 15" guns masquerading as 14" guns on the tier 8), they are not significantly better than *New Mexico's*. They have the same damage, worse Krupp (used in penetration calculations), and a lower muzzle velocity. The exact arcs and penetration are as yet unknown (I at least haven't seen a fnord_disc graph yet), but I don't have high hopes. 3. Historically, _Scharnhorst_ had a 20 second reload (actually a bit better at 17.14 seconds). _King George V_ had the standard 30 second. Wargaming has adjusted ROF slightly in the past, but never that much. She is not going to work well at tier 8 with the 14" guns. However, she uses the data for the 15" guns in the current testing version, so we will see what happens.
Except they are not 14 inch guns... From the other channels I have been keeping an eye on the data mining suggests KGV will have an ahistorical 15 inch main battery.
This popped up in my recommended for whatever reason and it's hilarious watching all the misconceptions we had 5 years ago. Nelson as a tech tree, KGV at Tier 8? Conqueror with Radar?? Simpler times, funnier times.
If the King George has a relatively high rate of fire with its 14 inch guns and good HE characteristics on their shells it might become the first BB to HE spam as a standard tactic.
Vanguard has the same guns as the Warspite (incidentally one of her guns was actually taken from Warspite before she was scrapped), with a tier 9 hull. She'll be a tier 8 premium guaranteed.
Jingles, you guys sure did build them pretty. PoW is my favorite ship, I have a rather sizable model of her complete with rigging and railing in her camo scheme over my fireplace
Interestingly enough, on wiki it says that the conqueror was to be part of the second series of Lion class battleships to be laid down in 1939 (after Lion and tremeraire in 1938) the conqueror was ordered but never laid down. however the other ship of the 1939 batch of Lion class battleships, which was to be HMS thunderer was not ordered. The other two Lion class ships that were planned to be built in 1940 received no name and were cancelled before they could be ordered. the Lion and tremeraire are playable in atlantic fleet if anyone is interested.
They probably only made King George V a Tier VIII so that they can sell Prince of Wales as a Tier VIII Premium Vessel because Tier VIII Premiums are more expensive than Tier VII.
Main difference between the Japanese 18.1" and British 18" was the British AP shell was 100 pounds heavier and had an almost 4km better effective firing range (25km vs 28.7km) but had a slightly lower max range (42km vs 38km both at 45 degrees) due to muzzle velocity of 780 m/s vs 740 m/s. British gun holds the record for longest range shore bombardment hitting a targeted bridge 32km inshore.
Very nice info. Thank goodness you stressed that things could change at any time because just today I (NA server) observed a BRI Monarch T7 battleship in a battle instead of the Nelson as mentioned here.
King George V looks like it'll be quite a beast to strike with a carrier. Both mid and short range AA combined will be in excess of 400 dps. Put in the AA module and AFT for 3.6km of death
Good thing about the Nelson which you can see around 4:21 is that having all guns forward means you can peak out from behind stuff to utilise all 9 guns and still keep your superstructure completely safe.
I would like to thank you, Jingles, for sharing with us the official terminology for the fore and aft ends of a Royal Navy warship; I wasn't aware of the terms "pointy end" and "ass end" before this. By the way, are those hyphenated? And are there any, similar naval terms for the left and right sides of one of Her Majesty's warships? "Spoon Side" and "Fork Side" perhaps? Anyway, keep up the good work, and by all means please continue our educations with these technical explanations and terminology!
So no talking about the tier 3-6 battleships? I will say I'm interested, but not surprised, with the route they took with Vanguard, KGV, and Nelson. Nelson is a slow ship armed with 16" guns from the 1920s. Much more in-line with the Colorados and Nagatos. You can't really put her at tier 6 because the Warspite, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, is in the game at tier 6. It would be a crime to not include the Queen Elizabeths in the main British battleship line. The KGVs were built in WWII and are more of a contemporary to the Bismarcks and North Carolinas, and thus with sufficient buffing to her 14" guns would fit at that tier nicely. The big issue with Vanguard is that, although she's fast and armed with the fire control of the Iowas, she only has WWI era 15" guns. Fire control doesn't seem to play much of a role in WoWS, so really I couldn't see her being more than a tier 8. And she didn't serve in WWII, like the KGVs did, and was the only battleship of her class, where 5 KGVs were built. So the KGV would naturally get precedence. The Lions at tier 9 was pretty expected. Tier 5 and 6 were pretty expected to me, and I don't think they screwed up there. Queen Elizabeth fits well at tier 6, Iron Duke fits well at tier 5. However, the tier 3 and 4 I do feel were stupid decisions. What HMS Bellerophon being at tier 3 says to me is that Wargaming is going to try to milk more money out of its players by making Dreadnought a premium. But HMS Orion at tier 4??? What??? HMS Orion has the exact same armament as HMS Iron Duke, and really isn't that much different of a battleship. Although you could have the Iron Duke upgraded a bit more than the Orion, having a ship with 10 13.5" guns at tier 4 is frankly a bit ridiculous. The Americans and Germans only get 12" guns at that tier, and although the Japanese get 14" guns they only get 6 of them. 10 13.5" guns with performance said to be similar to 14" guns at tier 4 is ridiculous! And it's not like the British lacked battleship classes you could place here. HMS Neptune and HMS Colossus would've been perfect! A 10 12" gun broadside, similar to the Kaisers, of 12" guns, which are improved from those fitted on Dreadnought and the Bellerophons, would work far better for that tier than a 10 13.5" gun broadside. So yeah, the decision at tier 3 seems to be a greedy one and the decision at tier 4 is honestly a stupid one. Everything else I can agree with, although the tier 7-8 area is going to require balancing to get right.
Orion had the same guns of Iron Duke (the 13.5-inch Mk V guns) but she fired a 1'265 lbs shell vs the 1'400 lbs shell of Iron Duke. Also, Konig at tier 5 and Kaiser at tier 4 have the same armament and (at least historically) they were pretty much the same ship... exactly like Orion and Iron Duke.
You know, you make good points, and the tonnage difference between Kaiser and Konig was less than that between Orion and Iron Duke. Hadn't actually known of the different variants of the 13.5" gun of the British superdreadnoughts, I had thought they were identical. Hadn't realized the Kaiser and Konigs were as similar as they are; I had always thought the Konigs had better armor in addition to their better turret layout. So I guess the Orion does fit at tier 4 than, more than the Colossus does.
It would be really nice if WG gave you to have the option of both at tier 10 giving it a lot more variety and uniqueness. However, if they just give it those 4x3 16.5 inch guns well that would kind of suck because there would be nothing unique about it...
People complaining about it being "Too gimmicky", aka Potatoes who likely don't know how to utilise them effectively. I mean, these are the same people that called British cruisers weak because they weren't playing them to their strengths.
don't know about anyone else but I've been playing WoWs since pre cbt and following it on youtube avidly since way back too but I've never heard of Arlios.
I only found out about Arlios last summer, but he is by far my favorite channel when it comes to WOWS, Still love Jingles for the ship history content though.
ST's come from a variety of skill levels. Some are potatoes, some are average, some are unicums. Don't forget, WG needs to know how the ship will handle in the hands of all players, not just experts. Plus, you don't know how long they've had with the ship when this was filmed... so they could be very unfamiliar with what they're playing. Also, people tend to focus new or rare ships... so trying to test ships can be a real pain
Hey Jingles, I think this is much more engaging than if you were just handed the ships as a community contributor. Needing to find out information the hard way - with user replays - is more exciting, especially coupled with your naval knowledge
Love how Jingles looks at the ships and knows all about the configurations. History lesson again... I love it. And I will play the new RN BBs if they come out... I don't like the idea to give them radar or hydro. Since radar should be a cruiser thing, and hydro is already on the german BBs...
People underestimate the capability of the 14 inch guns, which were rather fantastic guns in their own right, but were mounted and utilised rather poorly giving them a bad rep. Its also important to note that KGV was the second most heavily armoured class of ship in the world, after Yamato, possessing what is considered to be a superp armour scheme.
Actually, they were better at long ranges than those on New Mexico, and only worse at short ranges (to mid-ranges). This has problems in game, but I can't say much more for NDA reasons. I can only go full history on it. (And yes BeachedWhale, I know who you are from reddit). Anyway, NewMex's guns fair decently against tier 8s and 9s (Failed div'd a bit :/), but saying more is dangerous territory for a ST, even if I try to stick to historical stuff.
Hi Jingles. Great video, as always. Some quick inquisitive questions. One, have you heard about the German aircraft carrier they're supposedly adding, Graf Zeppelin (Germany's only aircraft carrier)? Or about the rumors that they're adding the Italian battleship Roma? Also (this isn't based on any rumors) do you think that for the French lines, they could add the battleship Richelieu (which was essentially a scaled-up Dunkurque) and/or the destroyer Le Fantasque, the fastest destroyer ever built?
HMS Nelson class also had unique characteristics primarily in the fact that at times a war outer bulkheads in her hull could be filled with water gave her extra torpedo protection at peace they where emptied so kept the class under the weight limitations set by the Washington treaty.
I'm a little surprised that the HMS Dreadnaught isn't listed. I mean wasn't that THE ship that launched the modern battleship design era? Possible premium maybe?
The Bofors had 7-12 km max range depending on the model, the 5.25 inch/134 mm guns had 21 km (land), 11 km (AA) range. Now had those specs been in game I think CV and DD captains would've complained about it together....
Can we get the HMS Dreadnought as a tier 3 premium with preferable matchmaking? Also I am still waiting for news for a Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship line for the British. They certainly had plenty of battlecruiser classes enough to fill an entire line if you included project ships such as the G3 battlecruiser Tier 3: HMS Invincble Tier 4: HMS Princess Royal (Lion class battlecruiser 1911) Tier 5: HMS Tiger Tier 6: HMS Renown Tier 7: HMS Anson (Admiral class battlecruiser) Tier 8: J3 Class battlecruiser Tier 9: HMS Inflexible (G3 Class Battlecruiser) Tier 10: HMS Queen Mary (K2 class Battlecruiser)
Which class does HMS Conqueror belong to? To my knowledge the only Royal Navy ships that were planned to have 18 inch guns were the N3 class, which was canceled due to the Washington Naval Treaty. The Nelson Class itself was based off of a modified N3.
The KGV's 14 inch guns actually had superior penetration characteristics to the standard 15 inch guns seen on Hood, Vangaurd, and the QE and Revenge classes.
The KGV has 15" guns ingame and has high AP and HE dmg, as well as high chance to set fire. Also the AP has the same features as the Hood and Warspite, meaning shorter fuses(1,5ms instead of 2ms) and better normalisation for the shells. So she is a citadel wonder on CA's. Also, because those are not enough features she also gets german HE pen(1/4 instead of the normal 1/6 of gun caliber). And lastly they all can heal 30% of citadel dmg instead of 20%. So Yeh balanced as hell.
jingles king george the V was origonally designed to have 16 inch guns but to make treaty they put 14 in on it the king george could of had 16 inch guns but would be in a config of 9 guns per turret
I am super happy that King George V made it to tier 8, since now it should be bale to stand on equal or at least similiar footing to Bismarck and we need those two to duel.
Vanguard was obviously slated to be a T8 premium from the get-go for various reasons, including the fact that it was the last BB ever launched. KGV's guns are most likely going to be 15" in the historical 10-gun layout unless they'd go through the effort of actually remodelling it as the 3x3 15-C design which would delay the line by quite some time and therefore they won't do it. They're apparently toying around with a regular 14" armed KGV at T7 which will probably cause us to get another stupid Scharnhorst/Gneisenau situation where the historically armed ship is a premium. I'm perfectly fine with the Nelson being at T7. It's probably going to be the weakest of the T7 BBs, but at least all of the Big Seven battleships are at the same tier and it's probably not going to be that bad compared to the rest assuming that bow-on tanking will work. Another possibility would be to put the T7 KGV they're playing around with as the regular tech tree ship which advances into the not-quite-15-C abomination at T8 and have the Nelson as a T7 premium. Here's hoping that there will be a choice to switch back to the 4x2 18" gun layout on the Conqueror if they stick with the boring 4x3 16.5" Montana-clone layout. I'm not going to bother to grind towards another boring 4x3 layout that's on literally every T10 battleship save for the Yamato.
Great vid Jingles but you are talking out of your blunt end if you think that there was more than 1 single version of the Nelson class. They only ever had Turreted 6" secondarys. :)
jingles any word on the lower tier bbs for the brit line? since thats where most of us will start an idea of how painful a grind it will be till u get to the higher tiers would be great keep up the good work
Jingles i can tell you right now from experiance, the Conqueror (at least) has the most over powered heal in the game, equal to the minotaur/neptune heal, i know this after seeing one heal from 5k to around 40k hp with one heal, it does 4927 damage on a normal penetration, and it has decent citadel protection (didnt get citadeled from a missouri shell striking where the citadel should be located, from a range of 14km)
NELSON's 16" guns only had 2080-lb streamlined-nosed, higher-velocity 16" Mk IB APC shells (they were not enlarged British 15" type!), somewhat lighter than most WWI foreign 16" APC (US COLORADO-Class BBs had 2110-lb, which was the closest), and significantly lighter than foreign WWII 16" APC (US & Japanese 16"/16.1" had at least 2240-lb APC (older ships using new ammo) and, in the new US 16"-gunned BBs, 2700-lb APC). Thus, the NELSON Class had the lightest APC shells for any 16"-gunned BB, ever. I am not sure what the term "short-delay fuze" means. The British APC in WWII did have only 0.025-second (the same as German late-model APC's delay-action fuzes in WWI) in their new, post-Battle of Jutland APC shells and all later APC base fuze designs, to my knowledge, instead of 0.035-second used by most foreign APC in WWII, but this was quite long enough to go pretty deep into any target (1/3 of the BB-sized ship width inside the hull before blowing up instead of 1/2 of the ship width doesn't mean much, now does it?). Only in some odd-ball cases would the shorter delay be a penalty. All post-Jutland British AP-type shells for guns 6" and up and very-late-WWII German 5.9" and up APC shells (after circa-1943) had a good benefit in that they could have all delay bypassed on loading into the gun, if desired, making them act much like an HE shell, but able to penetrate the any armor (that they could penetrate under that impact, of course) before exploding -- this would ELIMINATE the so-called "over-penetration" problem that other AP shells suffer if the shell's fuze is set off; obviously a big benefit in this game, if included! Only if the fuze is not set off would the shell go through the target as currently is the case in the game. No other large-caliber (5.9" and up) AP-type shells had this benefit. Any HE shell that "penetrates" like an AP shell has ALL of the same restrictions as an AP shell, including ricochet, in real life with the added problem of being lightly built so that it breaks up much more easily if it hits armor at an oblique angle. How can it be otherwise? We are not talking APFSDS or HEAT or HESH rounds, are we? Those are the only kinds of armor penetrating rounds that act much differently on direct penetration than AP (APCR/APDS projectiles are mostly just very heavy, very fast, small AP rounds for most purposes) and we are not talking about those here. You want to give HE shells, with their much larger explosive charge, the benefits of a reduced AP-type penetration using an optional base fuze -- as with US WWII large-caliber HC shells -- then you also get *all* of the penalties, too. I do not understand what is going on with these "penetrating" HE shells if they cannot ricochet -- they are not obeying the laws of physics.
Weight of fire, WG could just as soon give the KGV higher accuracy, like 2.2 sigma, so it's lighter weight of fire is more accurate. Whats their Torp protection? Doesnt look that good.
The Nelsons torpedo tubes were underwater, and fixed, so might need to get it in the drydock shipyard and see if they were modelled, unlikely to be usable though, but the Mutsu premium gets them, Rodney actually fired some in anger (and maybe hit the Bismarck) so if Rodney becomes the premium... :D
If I remember the King George V 's aircraft were stowed in a hanger, just forward of the boats, but I think the hanger was re-purposed as a movie theater late in the war.
Just like to point out that the KGV will actually have 15inch guns, its an un-historical set up but at tier 7 there will be a KGV with 14 inch guns possibly a premuim :)
It's basically the same 40MM Bofors that Sweden put on their CV90 APC. (Export versions usually sport the 30mm Bushmaster 2 though, same as the Bradley use.) A nice gun whatever elevation you fire it at.
Even with the 14" - if they gave it a really fast reload ... plus I think there was a superheavy version of the 14" for these that did about as much damage as the 15" ... and it's probably very tanky with it's armor ... it might be able to pound pretty hard if you were attentive to where you were firing on bow-on targets. It also could really be Hell on cruisers with its fast firing rate.
News for those who are watching this vid after ~3 weeks it's been uploaded, the Conqueror's 457mm guns have returned as an upgrade. You can still use the 419mm guns as default but I guess no one would like the HMS Montana/ HMS Großer Kurfürst.
Check out the wiki Jingles... specifically the fire and flood coefficient rules: Tier has almost nothing to do with power or gun size and EVERYTHING to do with age. To illustrate this look at the original BB lines.. USN representing the historic TL with the WNT and the IJN the non WNT one to fit Yamato in at T10. The USN built BB's as technology warranted and each new class had better fire suppression and flooding protection.. it also had more technical equipment(upgrade slots). So the older ships burn and flood the easiest and have the fewest upgrades.. the T10 which are all the newest ones/last design built of that class within the games parameters.. had the best protection and fire and flooding and the most upgrades. Yes there are some exceptions but generally you can tier by year of construction..
There is a design problem on the King Goerge V. At the place of the ships, the small ship is usually on the upper place next to the fireplace and in the place of the ship there is the catapult in front of the two hangars
I believe that the Vanguard should be tier 10, it was after the last battleship to serve plus it was a very good ship. The Royal Navy has more then enough battleships for a second tree but of course that itll far in the future as the first hasnt been released yet. With a bit of research im sure we'll find that it'll be possible for the US to have a second battleship line too, maybe add some paper ships to fill in the gaps.
Jingles just to let you know, the King George the 5th guns are NOT 14 inch guns, they are 15 inch guns. The tier 7 premium King George Class (currently named monarch) gets 14 inch guns.
My guess is a future tier VIII premium in the Vanguard. Hope fully we will also get a battlecruiser line with (several ships I forgot the name of) HMS Renown at it's end at tier VI.
And Wargaming didn't want to give the Gneisenau 283mm Guns because they wanted to keep the "calliber evolution" in the german line, so that you wont go from 380mm to 283mm back to 380mm. And now this with the King George V.! Didn't Wargaming once state that Radar will stay a cruiser exclusive?
The real mystery is why anyone attaches any significance to anything WG says. They've broken their own statements so often believing any of them is entirely foolish, lol.
I'll wait and see on the KGV, after all the Scharnhorst is tier 7 with 11" guns, so there may well be more to the 14s that make up for the lower caliber. And they may change it around still.
I'm calling it now: The HMS Vanguard is going to be a premium Battleship. Also one thing I noticed about the Lion is... holy crap that thing can scoot. It gets up to speed *really* fast.
The biggest problem I'm seeing with British battleships is that it seems that historically they went for damage, not penetration. In Wows, you would have the highest alpha damage, *and* penetration if you literally fired a giant solid metal slug.... Irl each 14 inch shell from the KGV hit substantially harder than the shells of the Iowas if they penetrated. But in this game they'll be weak as shit even when they do penetrate.
I don't see the fuss over the High explosive. Its still battleship high explosive, aka, you rarely ever want to use it, like ever, especially in British ships, with smaller fuses. If they're angling... aim for the superstructure or just switch target or aim for the turrets. I suppose it could be useful to set a bunch of fires once a guy has burned damage con, but with 30 seconds reload time... you'll get what, 20 seconds of fire? Really worth having to switch shell type? Probably not.
Short fuse on your armour piercing shell means that you'll be able to deal more consistent damage to enemy battleship, super structure pens ftw, but won't deal as many citadels, while also being able to spank the heck out of DDs and Cruisers. DDs are going to eat monstrous pens from British battleships it won't even be funny while cruisers will get citadelled to hell and back. THey also have good dispersion and better autobounce angles, meaning for consistent hits and less richochets
When it comes to the King George V, they might reflect the British emphasis on rapid fire you mentioned in the Bismarck videos. If the ship can fire fast, and has the German caliber/4 math for HE... we're talking a decent ship.
Had a Lion on the enemy team in one of my matches recently. Game was going well for my team, but unsurprisingly, once that thing popped, everyone just ignored the destroyers and battleships around them just to get a couple of shots at the Lion. Equally unsurprisingly, we lost. Lessons learned: Whenever your team desperately needs a comeback, just send a new ship on a suicide mission. 100% success rate.
I think WG may do what they did with the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Maybe they will put another KGV class(possibly Prince of Wales?) equipped with 15 inch guns at tier 8 and KGV with the original 14 inch gun as a tier 7 premium. its a good way to give players both gun types and more importantly, to make money which they always love.
Thanks for the shoutout!
And thanks for highlighting me eating shit :(
Arlios I'm surprised you actually decided to grind RN CLs after that video you did on them! Don't worry though, the fact that you were sailing one of HM's Ships makes up for your mistakes tenfold in our eyes 😉
Arlios. more up votes! get this comment to the top of the section!
love your vids btw.
I love how he added your outro music to your death.
Arlios A FUCKING LEAF.
Haha. Always good to see World of Warships youtubers below each others Videos ^^
do they get a damage buff against french ships that are on your team?
hehe :)
Major Skrewup it's kind of hard to hit French ships considering their on the sea floor
That would imply they ever got to sea
Only if they are stationary at Mers El Kebir...
While the Germans are capturing the rest of the French equipment and using them against the Allies.
Over a minute in and neither Heart of Oak nor Rule Britannia are playing.
Yeah? You forgot those songs, maybe Men of Harlech as well, or the theme song from the Great escape and Battle of Britain.
Fatsissy None of those really have anything to do with the Royal Navy though. The songs have to fit :P
rule Britannia is all about ruling the waves
Still a nice sounding Brititsh songs.
it was unexpected
Jingles, the rabbit hole goes deeper. Rumor has it that the Tier 8 King George V is ONLY going to have 15inch guns. A tier 7 premium is going to have 14inch ones. Also, let's keep the Big Seven at tier 7.
Re: the 1927 vs. 1945 configuration comment:
1) The guns embedded in the hull are called "casemate" guns.
2) The Nelsons never had any casemated guns; they had the 3 twin 6" guns on each side aft from the outset.
Also, Nelson's torpedo tubes were below the waterline, so we wouldn't see any evidence of them from this video.
The King George V's 14-inch guns were really good guns. Here's the broadside weight (total weight of shells fired in a broadside) for other Tier 8 battleships, firing AP:
KGV: 15,900 lbs.
Bismarck: 14,112 lbs.
Amagi: 22,050 lbs.
North Carolina: 24,300 lbs.
The KGV guns might have been smaller than their compeers, but whenever they were put to the test, they did the job and did the job superbly.
The 14 inch guns were enough to deal with any battleship bar the Yamato they penetrated the bismark several times and absolutely annihilated the sharnhorst
And yeah Jingles, we're not "diving deep into the realms of fantasy" when talking about about the KGV 15 inch guns. There was a planned refit for 15 inch guns with some really quite impressive characteristics.
Tom Meakin actually it was the original design but scuppered by upcomg treaty negotiations.
MrFatcat17 actually the original design was worked up with three triple 15", it was the preferred option but the upcoming treaty negotiations had a 14" limit with a 16" escalator clause and negotiations wouldn't work of you were building ships with bigger guns than you were proposing to limit ships to. so they switched from three triple 15" to three quad 14", but the additional weight meant the B turret had to drop for a twin and thus you get the historically built KGV. After they started building the escalator clause came in and all future designs were for 16"
Drachinifel its nice to see someone knows their history, people think the kgv class was exempt from the treaty rules but the amended 1936 London treaty meant that she had the 14 inch guns (the yanks used the clause to go 16 inch) and really the extra 10000 tons was good (and the 14 inch guns had more krupp penetration than the 15 inch). For Britain the treaty ended September 3rd 1939 :)
Nice touch there, adding Arlios' goodbye theme.
Actually Jingles, the wrongly tiered images were a mess up on WGs part. KGV was intended to be tier 8 and Nelsol intended to be tier 7 from the start. They just goofed when it came to making the stat cards. KGV with 14" guns might play a bit like a tier 8 Scharnhorst.
Rumors say that KGV will be armed with 15" guns in her upgraded guns.
1. Wargaming has copied _King George V_ in all respects, changed the gun stats to 14", and stuck her at tier 7 as _Monarch_. This includes the credit and XP prices, which has confused just about everyone. If she's a placeholder name for a premium, why doesn't she have a gold price?
2. When you actually look at the data on the 14" guns (not the 15" guns masquerading as 14" guns on the tier 8), they are not significantly better than *New Mexico's*. They have the same damage, worse Krupp (used in penetration calculations), and a lower muzzle velocity. The exact arcs and penetration are as yet unknown (I at least haven't seen a fnord_disc graph yet), but I don't have high hopes.
3. Historically, _Scharnhorst_ had a 20 second reload (actually a bit better at 17.14 seconds). _King George V_ had the standard 30 second. Wargaming has adjusted ROF slightly in the past, but never that much.
She is not going to work well at tier 8 with the 14" guns. However, she uses the data for the 15" guns in the current testing version, so we will see what happens.
It can't be played like the Scharnhorst since its guns' reload time is 10 seconds longer, plus it's not as agile and fast as Scharnhorst.
Except they are not 14 inch guns...
From the other channels I have been keeping an eye on the data mining suggests KGV will have an ahistorical 15 inch main battery.
the tier 8 KGV has 15" guns, they're simply called 14" guns
This popped up in my recommended for whatever reason and it's hilarious watching all the misconceptions we had 5 years ago.
Nelson as a tech tree, KGV at Tier 8? Conqueror with Radar??
Simpler times, funnier times.
If the King George has a relatively high rate of fire with its 14 inch guns and good HE characteristics on their shells it might become the first BB to HE spam as a standard tactic.
no HMS vanguard. *triggered*
Aradel I would bet a lot of money that it'll come as a tier 8 premium .
Premium tier 8 probably :)
Vanguard will be a tier 9 most likely.
Vanguard is not in the tree my friend. It will be premium.
Vanguard has the same guns as the Warspite (incidentally one of her guns was actually taken from Warspite before she was scrapped), with a tier 9 hull. She'll be a tier 8 premium guaranteed.
* runs up the White Ensign while a naval band strikes up Heart of Oak *
hmm, with jingles not being a community contributor anymore we don't get as detailed ship previews as before on the port :(
Da7K Who the fuck cares, they will change everything about the ships anyway.
Da7K I haven't been paying attention to his world of warship content why/when did he stop becoming a community peep?
NoGhostHere -Gaming, Airsoft, and Paintball
Just search around for wot sirfoch fiasco
Jingles, you guys sure did build them pretty. PoW is my favorite ship, I have a rather sizable model of her complete with rigging and railing in her camo scheme over my fireplace
Interestingly enough, on wiki it says that the conqueror was to be part of the second series of Lion class battleships to be laid down in 1939 (after Lion and tremeraire in 1938) the conqueror was ordered but never laid down. however the other ship of the 1939 batch of Lion class battleships, which was to be HMS thunderer was not ordered. The other two Lion class ships that were planned to be built in 1940 received no name and were cancelled before they could be ordered. the Lion and tremeraire are playable in atlantic fleet if anyone is interested.
"We never add new ships to WoWS"
"What never?"
"No, never"
"What, *never*?"
"Well, hardly ever"
They probably only made King George V a Tier VIII so that they can sell Prince of Wales as a Tier VIII Premium Vessel because Tier VIII Premiums are more expensive than Tier VII.
The KVG in game has 15 inch guns, which were planned for the ship. This is what most people have said to have gotten from the supertest data.
Nice vid Jingles, I always appreciate the extra historical information in your Warships vids.
Would have loved to have seen KGV at tier 8, with tier 8 armour, AA, highly accurate guns, British HE
Last time I was this early jingles was a wg cc
Admiral Blitz rip we don't get as detailed previews anymoreee
Main difference between the Japanese 18.1" and British 18" was the British AP shell was 100 pounds heavier and had an almost 4km better effective firing range (25km vs 28.7km) but had a slightly lower max range (42km vs 38km both at 45 degrees) due to muzzle velocity of 780 m/s vs 740 m/s. British gun holds the record for longest range shore bombardment hitting a targeted bridge 32km inshore.
Very nice info. Thank goodness you stressed that things could change at any time because just today I (NA server) observed a BRI Monarch T7 battleship in a battle instead of the Nelson as mentioned here.
I've waited YEARS for a Jingles British battleship video!!
King George V looks like it'll be quite a beast to strike with a carrier. Both mid and short range AA combined will be in excess of 400 dps. Put in the AA module and AFT for 3.6km of death
Good thing about the Nelson which you can see around 4:21 is that having all guns forward means you can peak out from behind stuff to utilise all 9 guns and still keep your superstructure completely safe.
an arlios cameo! what a treat!
I would like to thank you, Jingles, for sharing with us the official terminology for the fore and aft ends of a Royal Navy warship; I wasn't aware of the terms "pointy end" and "ass end" before this. By the way, are those hyphenated? And are there any, similar naval terms for the left and right sides of one of Her Majesty's warships? "Spoon Side" and "Fork Side" perhaps? Anyway, keep up the good work, and by all means please continue our educations with these technical explanations and terminology!
Arlios!
So no talking about the tier 3-6 battleships?
I will say I'm interested, but not surprised, with the route they took with Vanguard, KGV, and Nelson. Nelson is a slow ship armed with 16" guns from the 1920s. Much more in-line with the Colorados and Nagatos. You can't really put her at tier 6 because the Warspite, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, is in the game at tier 6. It would be a crime to not include the Queen Elizabeths in the main British battleship line. The KGVs were built in WWII and are more of a contemporary to the Bismarcks and North Carolinas, and thus with sufficient buffing to her 14" guns would fit at that tier nicely. The big issue with Vanguard is that, although she's fast and armed with the fire control of the Iowas, she only has WWI era 15" guns. Fire control doesn't seem to play much of a role in WoWS, so really I couldn't see her being more than a tier 8. And she didn't serve in WWII, like the KGVs did, and was the only battleship of her class, where 5 KGVs were built. So the KGV would naturally get precedence. The Lions at tier 9 was pretty expected.
Tier 5 and 6 were pretty expected to me, and I don't think they screwed up there. Queen Elizabeth fits well at tier 6, Iron Duke fits well at tier 5. However, the tier 3 and 4 I do feel were stupid decisions.
What HMS Bellerophon being at tier 3 says to me is that Wargaming is going to try to milk more money out of its players by making Dreadnought a premium.
But HMS Orion at tier 4??? What??? HMS Orion has the exact same armament as HMS Iron Duke, and really isn't that much different of a battleship. Although you could have the Iron Duke upgraded a bit more than the Orion, having a ship with 10 13.5" guns at tier 4 is frankly a bit ridiculous. The Americans and Germans only get 12" guns at that tier, and although the Japanese get 14" guns they only get 6 of them. 10 13.5" guns with performance said to be similar to 14" guns at tier 4 is ridiculous! And it's not like the British lacked battleship classes you could place here. HMS Neptune and HMS Colossus would've been perfect! A 10 12" gun broadside, similar to the Kaisers, of 12" guns, which are improved from those fitted on Dreadnought and the Bellerophons, would work far better for that tier than a 10 13.5" gun broadside.
So yeah, the decision at tier 3 seems to be a greedy one and the decision at tier 4 is honestly a stupid one. Everything else I can agree with, although the tier 7-8 area is going to require balancing to get right.
Orion had the same guns of Iron Duke (the 13.5-inch Mk V guns) but she fired a 1'265 lbs shell vs the 1'400 lbs shell of Iron Duke.
Also, Konig at tier 5 and Kaiser at tier 4 have the same armament and (at least historically) they were pretty much the same ship... exactly like Orion and Iron Duke.
You know, you make good points, and the tonnage difference between Kaiser and Konig was less than that between Orion and Iron Duke. Hadn't actually known of the different variants of the 13.5" gun of the British superdreadnoughts, I had thought they were identical. Hadn't realized the Kaiser and Konigs were as similar as they are; I had always thought the Konigs had better armor in addition to their better turret layout. So I guess the Orion does fit at tier 4 than, more than the Colossus does.
I bet this line is gonna turn into a right clusterfuck...trust WG to mess up something the community has wanted for so long
why did wargaming remove the 457 mm guns. we don't want or need another Montana.
Joel Montgomery because fuck you. That's why.
It would be really nice if WG gave you to have the option of both at tier 10 giving it a lot more variety and uniqueness. However, if they just give it those 4x3 16.5 inch guns well that would kind of suck because there would be nothing unique about it...
People complaining about it being "Too gimmicky", aka Potatoes who likely don't know how to utilise them effectively. I mean, these are the same people that called British cruisers weak because they weren't playing them to their strengths.
Dude, it's a rumor. RRRRRUUUUUMMMMMMOOOOOORRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Jonathan Todd It's not a rumor they have disabled using those guns. that doesn't mean they are gone but just not being tested right now.
don't know about anyone else but I've been playing WoWs since pre cbt and following it on youtube avidly since way back too but I've never heard of Arlios.
I only found out about Arlios last summer, but he is by far my favorite channel when it comes to WOWS, Still love Jingles for the ship history content though.
is it just me or do the supertesters just sail in a straight line to their death ? Seems like Wargaming could use new people for that gig
Well, we don't know what the test on the ships.
but you know how to sail a battleship , no ? I mean , these aren't new concepts , just new ships
Yes, unfortunately. Suppose to support your DDs, Cruisers to the cap.
ST's come from a variety of skill levels. Some are potatoes, some are average, some are unicums. Don't forget, WG needs to know how the ship will handle in the hands of all players, not just experts. Plus, you don't know how long they've had with the ship when this was filmed... so they could be very unfamiliar with what they're playing. Also, people tend to focus new or rare ships... so trying to test ships can be a real pain
also tester might have orders to get killed too get data on how much beating it can take
Hey Jingles, I think this is much more engaging than if you were just handed the ships as a community contributor. Needing to find out information the hard way - with user replays - is more exciting, especially coupled with your naval knowledge
Love how Jingles looks at the ships and knows all about the configurations.
History lesson again... I love it.
And I will play the new RN BBs if they come out...
I don't like the idea to give them radar or hydro. Since radar should be a cruiser thing, and hydro is already on the german BBs...
Why is it surprising that the KGV is at tier 8? they where of the same generation as the Bismarck, Yamato, South Dakota and North Carolina.
People underestimate the capability of the 14 inch guns, which were rather fantastic guns in their own right, but were mounted and utilised rather poorly giving them a bad rep. Its also important to note that KGV was the second most heavily armoured class of ship in the world, after Yamato, possessing what is considered to be a superp armour scheme.
Ushio01 Probably because of the fact of the smaller calibre of guns
It shouldn't be surprising, but people see the 14" guns and go hurrr durr, must be worse. Those guns were decent IRL.
They were about as good as those on *New Mexico*.
Actually, they were better at long ranges than those on New Mexico, and only worse at short ranges (to mid-ranges). This has problems in game, but I can't say much more for NDA reasons. I can only go full history on it. (And yes BeachedWhale, I know who you are from reddit). Anyway, NewMex's guns fair decently against tier 8s and 9s (Failed div'd a bit :/), but saying more is dangerous territory for a ST, even if I try to stick to historical stuff.
Hi Jingles. Great video, as always.
Some quick inquisitive questions. One, have you heard about the German aircraft carrier they're supposedly adding, Graf Zeppelin (Germany's only aircraft carrier)? Or about the rumors that they're adding the Italian battleship Roma?
Also (this isn't based on any rumors) do you think that for the French lines, they could add the battleship Richelieu (which was essentially a scaled-up Dunkurque) and/or the destroyer Le Fantasque, the fastest destroyer ever built?
Been waiting patiently for you to speak about them, Jingles. :)
Aaaay, looking forward to colonizing some matches. Plenty of nice looking towns in these isles.
HMS Nelson class also had unique characteristics primarily in the fact that at times a war outer bulkheads in her hull could be filled with water gave her extra torpedo protection at peace they where emptied so kept the class under the weight limitations set by the Washington treaty.
I'm a little surprised that the HMS Dreadnaught isn't listed. I mean wasn't that THE ship that launched the modern battleship design era? Possible premium maybe?
Vanguard and Dreadnought are likely to be Premiums.
she'll probably be a tier III. The class that came right after (a bit better) came as the tier III
Phoenix jz I'd love to see a tier 2 U.S battleship in the form of the Maine.
The Bofors had 7-12 km max range depending on the model, the 5.25 inch/134 mm guns had 21 km (land), 11 km (AA) range. Now had those specs been in game I think CV and DD captains would've complained about it together....
I have been waiting for something like this ever since my dad introduced me to Jane's Battleships 20 years ago! :)
I like this because it's like a nature video. Truly "A wild Nelson appears!"
Can we get the HMS Dreadnought as a tier 3 premium with preferable matchmaking?
Also I am still waiting for news for a Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship line for the British. They certainly had plenty of battlecruiser classes enough to fill an entire line if you included project ships such as the G3 battlecruiser
Tier 3: HMS Invincble
Tier 4: HMS Princess Royal (Lion class battlecruiser 1911)
Tier 5: HMS Tiger
Tier 6: HMS Renown
Tier 7: HMS Anson (Admiral class battlecruiser)
Tier 8: J3 Class battlecruiser
Tier 9: HMS Inflexible (G3 Class Battlecruiser)
Tier 10: HMS Queen Mary (K2 class Battlecruiser)
17:35 I like how you added in the music Arlios puts at the end of his videos :D
Which class does HMS Conqueror belong to? To my knowledge the only Royal Navy ships that were planned to have 18 inch guns were the N3 class, which was canceled due to the Washington Naval Treaty. The Nelson Class itself was based off of a modified N3.
Had one great day one week ago when i ran into the Nelson, KGV and the Lion. Though the 7 and 8 were moderate.. the 9 seems to be quite good.
The KGV's 14 inch guns actually had superior penetration characteristics to the standard 15 inch guns seen on Hood, Vangaurd, and the QE and Revenge classes.
Manilla Ice yep correct, just a shorter range but very accurate ;)
The KGV has 15" guns ingame and has high AP and HE dmg, as well as high chance to set fire. Also the AP has the same features as the Hood and Warspite, meaning shorter fuses(1,5ms instead of 2ms) and better normalisation for the shells. So she is a citadel wonder on CA's. Also, because those are not enough features she also gets german HE pen(1/4 instead of the normal 1/6 of gun caliber). And lastly they all can heal 30% of citadel dmg instead of 20%. So Yeh balanced as hell.
Please Please Please Please Please do more Cold Waters. Your videos on that game are just so good and I enjoy them a bunch. Please do more
jingles king george the V was origonally designed to have 16 inch guns but to make treaty they put 14 in on it the king george could of had 16 inch guns but would be in a config of 9 guns per turret
I am super happy that King George V made it to tier 8, since now it should be bale to stand on equal or at least similiar footing to Bismarck and we need those two to duel.
"Sneak Peek" as in a 24min video. Jingles I love you
Vanguard was obviously slated to be a T8 premium from the get-go for various reasons, including the fact that it was the last BB ever launched. KGV's guns are most likely going to be 15" in the historical 10-gun layout unless they'd go through the effort of actually remodelling it as the 3x3 15-C design which would delay the line by quite some time and therefore they won't do it. They're apparently toying around with a regular 14" armed KGV at T7 which will probably cause us to get another stupid Scharnhorst/Gneisenau situation where the historically armed ship is a premium.
I'm perfectly fine with the Nelson being at T7. It's probably going to be the weakest of the T7 BBs, but at least all of the Big Seven battleships are at the same tier and it's probably not going to be that bad compared to the rest assuming that bow-on tanking will work. Another possibility would be to put the T7 KGV they're playing around with as the regular tech tree ship which advances into the not-quite-15-C abomination at T8 and have the Nelson as a T7 premium.
Here's hoping that there will be a choice to switch back to the 4x2 18" gun layout on the Conqueror if they stick with the boring 4x3 16.5" Montana-clone layout. I'm not going to bother to grind towards another boring 4x3 layout that's on literally every T10 battleship save for the Yamato.
Great vid Jingles but you are talking out of your blunt end if you think that there was more than 1 single version of the Nelson class. They only ever had Turreted 6" secondarys. :)
jingles any word on the lower tier bbs for the brit line? since thats where most of us will start an idea of how painful a grind it will be till u get to the higher tiers would be great keep up the good work
Jingles i can tell you right now from experiance, the Conqueror (at least) has the most over powered heal in the game, equal to the minotaur/neptune heal, i know this after seeing one heal from 5k to around 40k hp with one heal, it does 4927 damage on a normal penetration, and it has decent citadel protection (didnt get citadeled from a missouri shell striking where the citadel should be located, from a range of 14km)
NELSON's 16" guns only had 2080-lb streamlined-nosed, higher-velocity 16" Mk IB APC shells (they were not enlarged British 15" type!), somewhat lighter than most WWI foreign 16" APC (US COLORADO-Class BBs had 2110-lb, which was the closest), and significantly lighter than foreign WWII 16" APC (US & Japanese 16"/16.1" had at least 2240-lb APC (older ships using new ammo) and, in the new US 16"-gunned BBs, 2700-lb APC). Thus, the NELSON Class had the lightest APC shells for any 16"-gunned BB, ever.
I am not sure what the term "short-delay fuze" means. The British APC in WWII did have only 0.025-second (the same as German late-model APC's delay-action fuzes in WWI) in their new, post-Battle of Jutland APC shells and all later APC base fuze designs, to my knowledge, instead of 0.035-second used by most foreign APC in WWII, but this was quite long enough to go pretty deep into any target (1/3 of the BB-sized ship width inside the hull before blowing up instead of 1/2 of the ship width doesn't mean much, now does it?). Only in some odd-ball cases would the shorter delay be a penalty. All post-Jutland British AP-type shells for guns 6" and up and very-late-WWII German 5.9" and up APC shells (after circa-1943) had a good benefit in that they could have all delay bypassed on loading into the gun, if desired, making them act much like an HE shell, but able to penetrate the any armor (that they could penetrate under that impact, of course) before exploding -- this would ELIMINATE the so-called "over-penetration" problem that other AP shells suffer if the shell's fuze is set off; obviously a big benefit in this game, if included! Only if the fuze is not set off would the shell go through the target as currently is the case in the game. No other large-caliber (5.9" and up) AP-type shells had this benefit.
Any HE shell that "penetrates" like an AP shell has ALL of the same restrictions as an AP shell, including ricochet, in real life with the added problem of being lightly built so that it breaks up much more easily if it hits armor at an oblique angle. How can it be otherwise? We are not talking APFSDS or HEAT or HESH rounds, are we? Those are the only kinds of armor penetrating rounds that act much differently on direct penetration than AP (APCR/APDS projectiles are mostly just very heavy, very fast, small AP rounds for most purposes) and we are not talking about those here. You want to give HE shells, with their much larger explosive charge, the benefits of a reduced AP-type penetration using an optional base fuze -- as with US WWII large-caliber HC shells -- then you also get *all* of the penalties, too. I do not understand what is going on with these "penetrating" HE shells if they cannot ricochet -- they are not obeying the laws of physics.
Weight of fire, WG could just as soon give the KGV higher accuracy, like 2.2 sigma, so it's lighter weight of fire is more accurate.
Whats their Torp protection? Doesnt look that good.
Hey Jingles, you weren't clear if any of this is subject to change?
Actually Jingles Hell is a city in Norway and the last time it had a cold day was in February
does this mean we get HMS Prince of Wales as tier 8 premium? its gimmick could be a lack of radar and losing your AA guns when you lose your engine
Jingles my great Gnome Overlord Sir, are you gonna do a preview on the Enterprise? I'd love to see what you think of it ^.^
The Nelsons torpedo tubes were underwater, and fixed, so might need to get it in the drydock shipyard and see if they were modelled, unlikely to be usable though, but the Mutsu premium gets them, Rodney actually fired some in anger (and maybe hit the Bismarck) so if Rodney becomes the premium... :D
If I remember the King George V 's aircraft were stowed in a hanger, just forward of the boats, but I think the hanger was re-purposed as a movie theater late in the war.
Just like to point out that the KGV will actually have 15inch guns, its an un-historical set up but at tier 7 there will be a KGV with 14 inch guns possibly a premuim :)
It's basically the same 40MM Bofors that Sweden put on their CV90 APC. (Export versions usually sport the 30mm Bushmaster 2 though, same as the Bradley use.) A nice gun whatever elevation you fire it at.
Even with the 14" - if they gave it a really fast reload ... plus I think there was a superheavy version of the 14" for these that did about as much damage as the 15" ... and it's probably very tanky with it's armor ... it might be able to pound pretty hard if you were attentive to where you were firing on bow-on targets. It also could really be Hell on cruisers with its fast firing rate.
News for those who are watching this vid after ~3 weeks it's been uploaded, the Conqueror's 457mm guns have returned as an upgrade. You can still use the 419mm guns as default but I guess no one would like the HMS Montana/ HMS Großer Kurfürst.
Check out the wiki Jingles... specifically the fire and flood coefficient rules: Tier has almost nothing to do with power or gun size and EVERYTHING to do with age. To illustrate this look at the original BB lines.. USN representing the historic TL with the WNT and the IJN the non WNT one to fit Yamato in at T10. The USN built BB's as technology warranted and each new class had better fire suppression and flooding protection.. it also had more technical equipment(upgrade slots). So the older ships burn and flood the easiest and have the fewest upgrades.. the T10 which are all the newest ones/last design built of that class within the games parameters.. had the best protection and fire and flooding and the most upgrades.
Yes there are some exceptions but generally you can tier by year of construction..
Errr. Jingles, It's HIS majesty's ship Nelson, since Britain had a KING at the time it entered service.
Same for the Conquerer.
There is a design problem on the King Goerge V. At the place of the ships, the small ship is usually on the upper place next to the fireplace and in the place of the ship there is the catapult in front of the two hangars
Holy good fking GOD thats some amazing health repair on that Conq...
Like the AA, perhaps they'll make up for the 14 inch guns with volume by giving them a much more rapid reload. The ultimate armored HE spammer.
I believe that the Vanguard should be tier 10, it was after the last battleship to serve plus it was a very good ship. The Royal Navy has more then enough battleships for a second tree but of course that itll far in the future as the first hasnt been released yet. With a bit of research im sure we'll find that it'll be possible for the US to have a second battleship line too, maybe add some paper ships to fill in the gaps.
Hey Jingles, bit off topic but you DO know about the Elite Dangerous Thargoid situation right?
Jingles, KGV with 15" gun isn't fantasy. The 15" Mk II gun was initially developed specifically for the 3x3 15" KGV plan.
Honestly the Fuso at tier 6 bounces its 12 14" of other battleships unless point blank, never mind a tier 8 with less of them!
Jingles just to let you know, the King George the 5th guns are NOT 14 inch guns, they are 15 inch guns. The tier 7 premium King George Class (currently named monarch) gets 14 inch guns.
Considering there were plans for the KGVs to be upgunned to 16" guns surely that would make more sense then 15inch guns.
My guess is a future tier VIII premium in the Vanguard. Hope fully we will also get a battlecruiser line with (several ships I forgot the name of) HMS Renown at it's end at tier VI.
And Wargaming didn't want to give the Gneisenau 283mm Guns because they wanted to keep the "calliber evolution" in the german line, so that you wont go from 380mm to 283mm back to 380mm. And now this with the King George V.!
Didn't Wargaming once state that Radar will stay a cruiser exclusive?
Wargaming is inconsistent. We just ignore them at this point.
Käse Kuchen Please don't scare me with your observation XD. Your right!
Käse Kuchen remember when WG said no tier 10 TD and Med ?
The real mystery is why anyone attaches any significance to anything WG says. They've broken their own statements so often believing any of them is entirely foolish, lol.
I'll wait and see on the KGV, after all the Scharnhorst is tier 7 with 11" guns, so there may well be more to the 14s that make up for the lower caliber. And they may change it around still.
I'm calling it now: The HMS Vanguard is going to be a premium Battleship.
Also one thing I noticed about the Lion is... holy crap that thing can scoot. It gets up to speed *really* fast.
The biggest problem I'm seeing with British battleships is that it seems that historically they went for damage, not penetration. In Wows, you would have the highest alpha damage, *and* penetration if you literally fired a giant solid metal slug.... Irl each 14 inch shell from the KGV hit substantially harder than the shells of the Iowas if they penetrated. But in this game they'll be weak as shit even when they do penetrate.
What is the basis for the HMS conquerer Tier 10 BB? The real HMS Conquerer was a Lion-Class BB with 16 inch guns.
I don't see the fuss over the High explosive. Its still battleship high explosive, aka, you rarely ever want to use it, like ever, especially in British ships, with smaller fuses. If they're angling... aim for the superstructure or just switch target or aim for the turrets. I suppose it could be useful to set a bunch of fires once a guy has burned damage con, but with 30 seconds reload time... you'll get what, 20 seconds of fire? Really worth having to switch shell type? Probably not.
From what I've heard Jingles the British BB's are going to get the same normalization that the cruisers get, so it should help the King George V
Short fuse on your armour piercing shell means that you'll be able to deal more consistent damage to enemy battleship, super structure pens ftw, but won't deal as many citadels, while also being able to spank the heck out of DDs and Cruisers. DDs are going to eat monstrous pens from British battleships it won't even be funny while cruisers will get citadelled to hell and back. THey also have good dispersion and better autobounce angles, meaning for consistent hits and less richochets
When it comes to the King George V, they might reflect the British emphasis on rapid fire you mentioned in the Bismarck videos. If the ship can fire fast, and has the German caliber/4 math for HE... we're talking a decent ship.
Finally in a video gingiles posted
From what I've heard HMS Conq is going down to 419mm guns (or at least they are testing her with them)
Hi Jingles, just a fyi I have played with the Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya on the NA server twice now.
according to my sources , the kgv is actually getting 15 inch guns , the monarch is suppose to have the 14 inch
Had a Lion on the enemy team in one of my matches recently. Game was going well for my team, but unsurprisingly, once that thing popped, everyone just ignored the destroyers and battleships around them just to get a couple of shots at the Lion. Equally unsurprisingly, we lost.
Lessons learned: Whenever your team desperately needs a comeback, just send a new ship on a suicide mission. 100% success rate.
well scharnhorst also got only 280mm guns
but they can kick ass pretty good
so i dont worry about a low caliber
i guess it will still be competitive
In terms of aesthetics alone, Conquerer looks pretty cool.
I think WG may do what they did with the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Maybe they will put another KGV class(possibly Prince of Wales?) equipped with 15 inch guns at tier 8 and KGV with the original 14 inch gun as a tier 7 premium. its a good way to give players both gun types and more importantly, to make money which they always love.