Let’s take a look at what’s coming up in the next Update.

Early Access to Japanese light cruisers

In Update 0.11.10, early access to Japanese light cruisers begins.

Players will be able to earn a new temporary resource — Japanese Tokens — by completing special combat missions. These tokens can be spent in the Armory to acquire consecutive bundles with early access ships. With the release of Update 0.12.0m Japanese Tokens will be exchanged for Credits at a rate of 1:9,000.

For the event, we added the “Dawn Harmony” permanent camouflage for Shimanto, Takahashi, and Yodo.

The port of Zipangu has been updated to receive the new branch.

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American Researchable hybrid battleships Nebraska, Delaware, and Louisiana; Pan-Asian Tier III cruiser Ning Hai and Tier IX battleship Sun Yat-Sen; Commonwealth Tier IX cruiser Hector; and British Tier VIII submarine Alliance have been added to the game for testing.

A new researchable branch of American hybrid battleships will be added to the game in the upcoming test session.

Each of these ships has main battery guns with good firing range, though not the highest damage per minute, as well as a squadron of dive bombers equipped with HE bombs. These aircraft are not available to activate at the beginning of a battle and are subject to a significant preparation time. The large number of planes per squadron allows for good damage to be dealt with these aircraft. However, the planes do not return to the ship after use. Instead, a full squadron is restored on your ship at once after a long cooldown.

The new battleships stand out with good maneuverability and speed, which makes it possible to change flanks if the need arises. The most vulnerable part of these ships is their large, lightly armored aircraft hangars which form part of the superstructure. Thanks to their good firing range and fully controllable aircraft squadrons, these newcomers can provide effective support to their team. The ships’ consumables are composed of Damage Control Party and Repair Party with standard characteristics, as well as a Fighter.

As far as Anti-Submarine tools, these ships will come equipped with a standard Depth Charge Airstrike. If testing of this armament on the American branch of researchable hybrid battleships is successful, we will consider adding this armament to the hybrid ships already present in the game.

American battleship Nebraska, Tier VIII

A fast aircraft carrier/battleship with powerful anti-aircraft defenses and six 406 mm guns mounted on the ship’s bow.

American battleship Delaware, Tier IX

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Based on testing results, we’re applying changes to Agano, Gokase, Shimanto, Takahashi, Tromp, Yodo, and Monmouth, as well as submarines.

The following changes will take effect on the live server on Wednesday, September 21st:

Japanese cruiser Agano, Tier V

• Main battery firing range reduced: 14.6 to 13.9 km.

Japanese cruiser Gokase, Tier VI

• Main battery firing range reduced: 14.6 to 13.9 km.
• Surface detectability range increased: 9.5 to 10.9 km.
  • Other detectability ranges increased proportionally

Japanese cruiser Shimanto, Tier VIII

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