Thoughts on the next collab.

[Gen_Mayhem]

Okay, we're in October and the end of the year is coming up on us faster than a shell fired from a Battleship.   And for those of us in the middle of the Arpeggio missions (you know who you are), I figured I'd actually do something about the next upcoming Collab, which we might get next year if at all.

 

http://worldofwarships.asia/en/news/announcements/wows-rendezvous-hs-fleet/

 

Now, I'll admit when the news of this dropped I was curious and looked up this show.   And while I wasn't impressed I was curious how this collab will take place as the main ships seen..that being a Kagero and a Musashi are too high a tier to use as prize ships, and most of the others are well, too current tech to be brought into play (cruise missles anyone?).  All I can see is possibly a downloadable pack like with Girls Und Panzer from WoT to give your ships the color schemes in the show.  And I heard tale of a Custom Flag

 

Only other thing I can see is a Graf Spee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee), which could be classed as a Tier 7 as it was succeeded by the Admiral Hipper Class.  

 

Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[Czevak]

Would work if a pre-requisite to get the ships is to already have the tech tree counterpart.

 

Ex:

Haifuri Musashi Mission

*Prerequisite(s) Own Yamato

*Other mission details

*Tier 8-10 

 

Completion = Haifuri Musashi credited with x point Captain.

 

(I just added Haifuri before the names since it's easier.)

[Gen_Mayhem]

That would be a good idea.  A little extra perk for having the ships.  And you get another Hagero and Yammy for your slot.  Another could be custom camos you can perma purchase much like the ones that come with the Prem ships.

[PelicanHazard]

The Kongo-class battleship Hiei also showed up as a minor antagonist.

 

Musashi is unlikely to show up, I would imagine, for two reasons:

1. It's a Tier 10. Even with prerequisite of owning a Yamato or other Tier 10, I don't see WG being too eager to hand them out for free. For a datum, we can look to the current Arpeggio collaboration; both Yamato and Musashi feature heavily in the works, yet there's zero indication we're getting either.
2. The Haifuri universe is an alternate reality where heavier-than-air crafts were never developed, so the Musashi in the show has her as-built configuration with Mogami's 155cm triple-gun turrets as secondaries on either side of the superstructure and no significant AA, not the late-war heavy AA-armed variant we have in the game. Given that a requirement of these collabs is that those who don't opt-in to the anime mode see just the regular tree ship, there'd be a disconnect where either the Yamato others see doesn't have significant AA or the Musashi Haifuri participants see is significantly altered from her show form. This is a weaker rationale than the first, given that all the Arpeggio Kongos resemble Hiei since that's what the tree Kongo was modeled after.

 

I suspect we'll get the hero Kagero (since it's being moved to Tier 8 and thus open to being a reward), the Hiei, Graf Spee if it's going to be added to the German tree, and maybe some of the characters as commanders.

[Mechanicum]

I'd love to see ships from literature and movies.

 

HMS Ulysses for example, provides us with a fictional Dido class cruiser, probably at tier 6 or 7 (would be a good rival for the Atlanta).

The Caine Mutiny provides us with "USS Caine" as a premium version of the Clemson.

 

For a Halloween theme, we can go with the myth of HMS Friday ;-)

[Gen_Mayhem]

I agree with you Pelican about the Musashi, it'd be too hard, if not impossible to bring that ship in.  And the fact Kagero is being downgraded in the Tier could leave it open to be a prize ship.   From all the time I spent in WoT and WoWP, Tier 8 was the cut off point for Prems and prize vehicles.  So yeah, Kagero and another Kongo will be possibly tossed up.  And possibly some unique commanders as well

 

Mecha, I can tell you they probably won't bring in ships from novels.   Movies, maybe.  Shall I point at the USS Indianapolis?  And on the World of Tanks side, the Fury Sherman from the movie, Fury.

 

Also, HMS Friday, I looked that up.  I could see that being a funny little quirk they toss in.  Like the Boss ships from last Halloween, if you see it and sink it, you get some nice loot.

 

P.S.  I hate the fact I missed the Fujin. 

 

 

[TsundereMusashi]

I agree with you Pelican about the Musashi, it'd be too hard, if not impossible to bring that ship in.  And the fact Kagero is being downgraded in the Tier could leave it open to be a prize ship.   From all the time I spent in WoT and WoWP, Tier 8 was the cut off point for Prems and prize vehicles.  So yeah, Kagero and another Kongo will be possibly tossed up.  And possibly some unique commanders as well

 

Mecha, I can tell you they probably won't bring in ships from novels.   Movies, maybe.  Shall I point at the USS Indianapolis?  And on the World of Tanks side, the Fury Sherman from the movie, Fury.

 

Also, HMS Friday, I looked that up.  I could see that being a funny little quirk they toss in.  Like the Boss ships from last Halloween, if you see it and sink it, you get some nice loot.

 

P.S.  I hate the fact I missed the Fujin. 

 

 

 

Aren't there tier X reward tanks in WoT? And right now there's a tier X reward plane on WoWP thats going on right now.

[Mechanicum]

Mecha, I can tell you they probably won't bring in ships from novels.   Movies, maybe.  Shall I point at the USS Indianapolis?  And on the World of Tanks side, the Fury Sherman from the movie, Fury.

 

Also, HMS Friday, I looked that up.  I could see that being a funny little quirk they toss in.  Like the Boss ships from last Halloween, if you see it and sink it, you get some nice loot.

 

P.S.  I hate the fact I missed the Fujin. 

 

 

Well, the Indianapolis was actually a real ship, and was quite infamous, both for delivering the first atomic bomb, and for being sunk on her return, with sharks claiming more of the crew than the initial sinking.  As such, she doesn't really count as a "collaboration", since she is actual history.

 

As to movies over novels, well, that gives us some other options.  USS Caine is still in movie form, and you might be able to add USS Haynes ("the Enemy Below") , HMS Solent ("Sink the Bismark!"), HMS Sheffield ("Sink the Bismark!"), and IJN Shinaru ("Torpedo Run").

[Gen_Mayhem]

Musashi, can you cite some sources?  I'll admit I haven't been on either game in a long time (need to fix that), and the wiki didn't show any of that info.   And Mech, you got a point there.  They could use some of those from movies.  But getting the rights is a tricky thing there, and with the Indianapolis, I was just pointing out it dropped when the movie was announced, so my mistake there.    Also, I am wrong about one thing.   The Amagi, when I first heard about it it was in the novel series, Destroyermen. 

[TsundereMusashi]

Musashi, can you cite some sources?  I'll admit I haven't been on either game in a long time (need to fix that), and the wiki didn't show any of that info.   And Mech, you got a point there.  They could use some of those from movies.  But getting the rights is a tricky thing there, and with the Indianapolis, I was just pointing out it dropped when the movie was announced, so my mistake there.    Also, I am wrong about one thing.   The Amagi, when I first heard about it it was in the novel series, Destroyermen. 

 

Well than... In fact there are 6 premium tier X tanks on WoT. 

http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Premium_Tanks

 

And on WoWP you could obtain this plane.

http://worldofwarplanes.com/warplanes/japan/ki-162-3/

 

And of course theres the USS Black on WoWs which  is a tier ix Fletcher.

https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/06/25/wows-uss-black-dd-666-leaked-stats/

 

 

 

[Gen_Mayhem]

Hey Tsundere...if I'm looking at this right.  I think some of them were rewards for Clan Wars, like the USS Flint for Ranked battles..  And the plane..that could be in the tech tree.  If you look below the picture it has Credit and Exp listed, possibly what you need to grind to to get it. I haven't touched WoWP since it went into Open Beta.   The Black, that could be something from a later ranked battle or possibly what will be given out when and if clan wars comes to this place or a later ranked battle season.

 

I'm not wanting to start problems or a argument.   I'd like it if we could earn some high end ships, but the odds are pretty low.  

 

Oh, one more thing.  Takao's coming, she's on the RU server now.