Royal Sovereign the reason RN BBs are OP

[Prkl8r]

Hear me out here, maybe they made RN BBs overpowered because that way, when they inevitably add Royal Sovereign in as a Russian Premium BB as Arkhangelsk which will play like an RN BB, they have an excuse as to why it's so good.

 

Of course they will wait to nerf RN BBs until this ship is released.

 

That way it will stay powerful, as we all know they won't nerf premiums.

 

/Tinfoil hat

 

[Prkl8r]

Btw, this was a joke, I don't even think the ships are really OP, just annoying to play against.

[Goodwood_Alpha]

41 minutes ago, Prkl8r said:

Btw, this was a joke, I don't even think the ships are really OP, just annoying to play against.

Joke aside, that wouldn't surprise a lot of folks familiar with Wargaming.

There's a good reason, I expect, as to why the R-class wasn't included in this line of British battleships. Speculation based on the history of WoT would seem to indicate that there may well be future secondary—and possibly tertiary—lines for various ship types, which means the R-class battleships might make an appearance in a second or third (after the RN battlecruisers in 2019/2020) line at or around Tier VI. The thing is, if you thought Warspite and QE were a bit on the pokey side, the R-class was worse, almost as bad as the U.S. Navy's Standard battleships.

[Prkl8r]

Well if they did put in Arkhangelsk, they should go realistic with it and make it's turrets not turn due to lack of maintenance by the Russian crew.

[Middcore]

Just now, Prkl8r said:

Well if they did put in Arkhangelsk, they should go realistic with it and make it's turrets not turn due to lack of maintenance by the Russian crew.

 

Beat me to it. 

 

But yeah, I can see WG doing exactly this, no joke.

[mofton]

Hmm, they didn't make the entire USN cruiser line OP, just to have an OP Murmansk...

[Prkl8r]

2 minutes ago, mofton said:

Hmm, they didn't make the entire USN cruiser line OP, just to have an OP Murmansk...

Idk, back in beta the Omaha was a great ship. Doesn't really stand up now though, at least not like it did.

[Middcore]

4 minutes ago, mofton said:

Hmm, they didn't make the entire USN cruiser line OP, just to have an OP Murmansk...

 

Nope. They were more brazen about it and gave the Murmansk buffs apparently conferred just by its heroic Soviet banner. 

 

I think they've gotten clever-er since then though.

[Prkl8r]

4 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Nope. They were more brazen about it and gave the Murmansk buffs apparently conferred just by its heroic Soviet banner. 

 

I think they've gotten clever-er since then though.

That's true it was randomly better than Omaha for "reasons."

[Eisennagel]

 

 

Most likely will come to the game anyway --- as the Royal Sovereign herself, given that both Duca d'Aosta and the Guilio Cesare came to the game as their original selves, not Soviet premiums. 

 

My theory is that the models for these Soviet premiums were already done but WG changed their policy to preferring using indigenous ships as Russian premiums instead (discontinuation of Murmansk as Krasnyi Krym takes its place).