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Captains!

We're applying balance changes to a number of ships based on an analysis of both their combat statistics and player feedback.

These changes will take effect on April 23th with the exception of Montcalm which will be effected on April 30th.

Italian Battleship Tier IV, Dante Alighieri, Italian Battleship Tier V, Conte di Cavour, Italian Battleship Tier VI, Andrea Doria, Italian Battleship Tier VII, Francesco Carraciolo

• Dispersion pattern changed. These ships will now have a higher accuracy at medium to closer ranges, which will degrade significantly at longer firing ranges, similarly to but not exactly as the Soviet battleship branch.

Italian Battleship Tier VIII, Vittorio Veneto

• Main Battery parameters changed:
  • Stock module maximum firing range increased: 16.5 to 17.3 km
  • Researchable module maximum firing range firing range increased: 18.1 to 19 km
  • Dispersion pattern changed. The ship will now have a higher accuracy at medium to closer ranges, which will degrade significantly at longer firing ranges, similarly to the Soviet battleship branch.
• Spotting Aircraft consumable removed.

Italian Battleship Tier IX, Lepanto

• Main Battery parameters changed:
  • Stock main battery firing range increased: 16.5 to 17.3 km
  • Researchable main battery firing range increased: 18.1 to 19 km
  • Dispersion pattern changed. The ship will now have a higher accuracy at medium to closer ranges, which will degrade significantly at longer firing ranges, similarly to the Soviet battleship branch.
• Spotting Aircraft consumable removed.

Italian Battleship Tier X, Cristoforo Colombo

• Main Battery parameters changed:
  • Maximum main battery firing range increased: 18.9 to 19.9 km
  • Dispersion pattern changed. The ship will now have a higher accuracy at medium to closer ranges, which will degrade significantly at longer firing ranges, similarly to the Soviet battleship branch.
• Spotting Aircraft consumable removed.

Italian Superbattleship, Affondatore

• Main Battery parameters changed:
  • Dispersion pattern brought in line with the rest of the Italian battleship branch.
  • Similarly to the rest of the branch, the ship receives a bonus to the base shell switching time.

Italian Cruiser Tier VII, Abruzzi

• Submarine Surveillance consumable added with the following parameters:
  • Detection firing range: 6 km
  • Number of charges: 3
  • Action time: 20s
  • Cooldown time: 120s

Italian Cruiser Tier IX, Brindisi

• Detectability range by sea reduced: 15.1 to 14.5 km
  • All other detectability ranges adjusted accordingly.

Italian Destroyer Tier IX, Adriatico

• Main battery reload time reduced: 5 to 4.6s
• Detectability range by sea reduced: 8.5 to 8.2 km
  • All other detectability ranges adjusted accordingly.

Pan-American Battleship Tier IX, Valparaiso

• Specialized Repair Teams consumable parameters changed:
  • HP per second reduced: 1,880 to 1,503
• HP restoration after receiving citadel damage reduced: 33% to 10%

Pan-American Cruiser Tier IX, Santander

• Main battery reload time reduced: 7 to 6.2s

Spanish Cruiser Tier IX, Almirante Oquendo

• Main battery reload time reduced: 13 to 12s
• Alternative Fire Mode reload time reduced: 18.5 to 18s

French Cruiser Tier VI, Montcalm

• The number of Repair Party charges was reduced: 3 to 2
  • The initial number was an error.

  

French Cruiser Tier X, Colbert

• Maximum main battery firing range increased: 13.8 to 15 km

Soviet Battleship Tier X, Slava

• AP shell maximum damage increased: 12,100 to 13,450

American Battleship Tier VIII, Nebraska

• Hangar plating armor thickness increased: 19 to 32 mm
• Parts of the superstructure below the flight deck have been included in hangar armoring

American Battleship Tier IX, Delaware / American Battleship Tier IX, Bird Cry

• Upper hangar armor plating thickness increased: 19 to 38 mm
• Parts of the superstructure below the flight deck have been included in hangar armoring

American Battleship Tier X, Louisiana

• Upper hangar plating armor thickness increased: 19 to 38 mm
• Parts of the superstructure below the flight deck have been included in hangar armoring
• Number of aircraft on deck increased: 6 to 12
  • As a result, the ship is now able to store up to two bomber squadrons simultaneously.

American Cruiser Tier VIII, Congress

• The ship maintains 2 charges of Repair Party as an exception to changes mentioned in Closed Test 15.4 for cruisers.
• Main Battery parameters changed:
  • Maximum firing range increased: 17.5 to 18 km
  • Reload time reduced: 22 to 20s

American Cruiser Tier VIII, San Diego

• Main battery firing firing range increased: 14.8 to 15.6 km

American Destroyer Tier X, Forrest Sherman

• Engine Boost consumable added. It will share a slot with Defensive AA Fire and will have the following parameters:
  • Maximum speed: +8%
  • Number of charges: 3
  • Duration time: 120s
  • Cooldown time: 120s

British Cruiser Tier VIII, Cheshire / British Cruiser Tier VIII, AL Cheshire

• Main battery reload time reduced: 12.5 to 11.5s

British Carrier Tier X, Ocean

• Torpedo bomber squadron parameters changed:
  • Number of aircraft per squadron reduced: 12 to 9
  • Size of attacking flight reduced: 4 to 3
  • Number of aircraft on deck reduced: 24 to 18
  • Aircraft restoration time increased: 71 to 79s

German Cruiser Tier VIII, Prinz Eugen

• AP shell parameters changed:
  • Maximum damage increased: 5,900 to 6,100
  • Guaranteed ricochet angle increased: 60 to 65 degrees
  • Minimum auto-ricochet check angle reduced: 45 to 55 degrees

European Battleship Tier VI, Laudon

• Torpedo protection coefficient reduced: 22 to 15%

European Battleship Tier VIII, Enigheten

• Torpedo protection coefficient reduced: 22 to 20%

European Battleship Tier IX, Gustav den Store

• Torpedo protection coefficient reduced: 20 to 18%

Link do Devblog: https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/public-test-154-balance-changes

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There is also the option of staying my hand hoping that new steel ships will be added to the armory pool, however it looks like standard steel ships are going the way of coal ships.

My main concern is that, if I pick something in May, I will not have enough steel for the holidays sink. I get my steel from Event Passes - no CB and almost no Ranked Battles (and no Dockyard whaling).

What do you suggest I do?

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