So if WG decides to remove Nagato and Amagi's hull A?

[Mr_Alex]

I am a bit concerned that WG is deciding to remove Amagi and Nagato Hull A aka the stock hull, they are a testament that the Japanese Naval designers took Aethestic look into account while ships were built

 

 
What is the point of removing Nagato and Amagi's hull A aka stock hull, it does not make sense, it is basically what they looked like before modernization

 

[SovereignEagle]

Not really sure why they are doing it for the Nagato, but it makes sense for the Amagi which is utter garbage stock. 

[Big_Spud]

Does this mean they can finally get rid of the laughably horrible Colorado and New Mexico stock hulls now?

[GhostSwordsman]

If they get rid of Nagato's A hull, I smell a marketing ploy for Mutsu.

 

"Buy Mutsu, with an earlier hull configuration of the Nagato-class battleships that isn't in the game!"

 

 

Edit: Spelling, don't know why I misspelled 'get'

[1Sherman]

Nagato and Amagi without their stock hulls means no more easy tier 7 and 8 BB citadels from any range with my NC and Warspite.

[YamatoA150]

It just means it's easier to grind up to Yamato now, and put all dreadnought hulls into a tier below as crappy Premiums.  Though Kongou's dreadnought form is somewhat represented by Ishizuchi, so doubling up there is kind of pointless.

[renegadestatuz]

Nagato and Amagi without their stock hulls means no more easy tier 7 and 8 BB citadels from any range with my NC and Warspite.

 

That's why you get Bismarck and then just calmly sail in and watch as they get shredded while you're laughing

[Boomax77]

Since the Amagi is a paper ship it doesn't matter to me, but Nagato should stay.

[YukikazeFortunateBeaver]

What about fuso stock hull?

[Doomlock]

Since the Amagi is a paper ship it doesn't matter to me, but Nagato should stay.

 

Amagi wasn't paper, she was half built before the WNT forced Japan to scrap her. Her sister lived on as a CV though in Akagi.

[Super_Dreadnought]

Since the Amagi is a paper ship it doesn't matter to me, but Nagato should stay.

 

It's not a paper design. Amagi and Akagi were actually laid down and being built as battlecruisers, until the Washington Naval Treaty forced a conversion to aircraft carriers. Amagi was then damaged by an earthquake beyond economical repair, and scrapped.

 

Extemely unlucky ship and not finished to original specifications? Yes. But a paper ship? Amagi existed in real life and was a few levels above being a blueprint only ship. Who knows?  Had the WNT gone differently Akagi at least (which did survive the earthquake) might have been completed as seen in WoWs.

 

 

[SovereignEagle]

What about fuso stock hull?

 

WG might see that as a kind of counter to how strong she is when upgraded.

 

Idk. Fuso and Amagi were always the worst stock ships in the IJN line.

[TenguBlade]

Probably a marketing ploy for Mutsu in Nagato's case.  I don't know about Amagi though, since Tosa could easily take her place and the entire ship made a premium.  The stock 16" shell's awful penetration means it'll be meh at best to play the ship if a downtiered stock hull becomes a premium.

 

I just wish they were also removing Fuso's stock hull.

[Seraphil]

I really, really hope they don't do this with Fuso.  Fuso and Yamashiro already have considerable differences in their design without having to resort to "use stock hull for a premium" method.  I would pay for a tier 7 Yamashiro that's only slightly buffed over Fuso, but I don't think I would do the same with a tier 5 stock hull version.

[Super_Dreadnought]

I really, really hope they don't do this with Fuso.  Fuso and Yamashiro already have considerable differences in their design without having to resort to "use stock hull for a premium" method.  I would pay for a tier 7 Yamashiro that's only slightly buffed over Fuso, but I don't think I would do the same with a tier 5 stock hull version.

 

A tier 5 stock hull which would be uptiered almost all the time.

[NimitsTexan]

I am not in favor of this. For me, a large part of the fun for all the dreadnought/super-dreadnought BBs was to play a few games in their "dreadnought" configuration. I intentionally did not use any free XP on those hulls, just so I could play with them in their WWI-era form longer.

 

Removing them from the game removes the most interesting part of those ships, IMO.

 

Anyway, not really sure what WG or the game gains by removing them . . . part of all BBs is grinding 1-2 hull until you get to the top, and it is not like IJN BBs were underperforming (relative to USN BBs, anyway).

[Seraphil]

Suddenly I just realized an unsettling precedent.

 

Imagine how people will react when they introduce a stock hull Colorado at tier 6 named... West Virginia.

[SCygnus]

Does this mean they can finally get rid of the laughably horrible Colorado and New Mexico stock hulls now?

 

Nah.  USN, the 'S' is for 'Suffering'

[OOM911]

For the Nagato there removing it to introduce the Mutsu which will use the A hull but also have torpedo tubes.

 

I Also heard that they are doing to for Amagi though if they are going to introduce it will torps remains to be seen.

 

A key point though! Fuso, Nagato, and Amagi class ships were all built with torp launchers initially. So they could be going this route so they don't introduce total clones.

[Battleship_Orion]

Personally, I find the serpentine funnels incredibly ugly. The straight funnels and fleshed out padoga masts of the later refits are far more pleasing builds.

[Mr_Alex]

Personally, I find the serpentine funnels incredibly ugly. The straight funnels and fleshed out padoga masts of the later refits are far more pleasing builds.

 

It depends on the person but I don't find it ugly at all