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The new update will go live some time after it's been downloaded because the client and server sides are updated separately. While the client begins to update immediately, it takes time for the servers to be updated across all regions.

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Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.

Because of the updates being made to upgrades, the dismounting of them will be free of charge for a period of 1 week from the release of Update 0.9.1.

A new line of British heavy cruisers has become available for all players to research.

• Their powerful artillery can cause significant damage per salvo, but the guns have a relatively short firing range and arcing shell trajectory.
  
• In contrast to light British cruisers, these ships have high-explosive shells in their arsenal that can cause heavy damage and have good chances of setting targets on fire.
  
• Their ability to fire torpedoes one-by-one opens additional tactical options.
  
• Strong armor protection for the central parts of the decks of ships of Tier VI and above, increases their survivability compared to other cruisers, with X Goliath's deck armor reaching a thickness of 40 mm.
  
• Efficient Repair Party consumable.

Decent survivability, thanks to their durable armor and effective Repair Party. Their powerful guns with relatively short firing ranges predispose British heavy cruisers to medium-range artillery encounters.

You'll be able to learn more details about the British heavy cruisers later in a dedicated article on our website.

The new game event tasks you with completing 36 missions, spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.1, right after the necessary technical work has finished. Those that follow will be unlocked each week. The ultimate reward for completing all Directives is cruiser VI London.

Completing missions will reward you with signals, expendable camouflage patterns, credits, Coal, and Free XP. Completing Directives will reward you with Royal Tokens.

You can exchange Royal Tokens for doubloons, signals, Union Jack camouflage patterns, credits, days of Premium Account, and the main reward—the new unique British Commander, Andrew Cunningham!

You can get Royal Tokens for completing the event's Directives, Daily Missions, and Daily Challenges for warships VI London, VIII Cheshire, and VIII Albemarle. You can also obtain Royal Tokens from random bundles that are available in exchange for doubloons in the Armory.

With the release of Update 0.9.2, Royal Tokens will only be obtainable from random bundles in exchange for doubloons. When Update 0.9.3 hits the servers, Royal Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:9,000.

• Lightning Fast: the speed of your ship and squadrons increases by 5% after scoring two "Caused flooding" ribbons.
  
• Consumables Expert: the number of consumable charges for your ship increases by one after destroying two enemy ships.
  
• "Sink, Burn, Destroy!": the reload time of your ship’s main battery guns and torpedo launchers, as well as aircraft restoration time, reduces by 10% after earning the “Witherer” achievement.

Each of these talents can be activated only once per battle. His talents are unavailable in Clan Battles or Training Rooms.

• Jack of All Trades: −10% to the reload time of all mounted consumables, instead of the standard −5%.
  
• Aircraft Armor: −11.5% to the continuous damage of AA guns, instead of the standard −10%.

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• Dates: from February 26 till March 24
  
• Format: Tier X ships in a 7 vs. 7 format
  
• Battle mode: Arms Race

Arms Race is a game mode in which special buff areas appear on the map. If you manage to enter an area and capture it before the enemy does, your entire team will receive a bonus to their combat characteristics that will last until the end of the battle. When you capture another area with the same buff, its efficiency increases further.

At a certain point in time after the start of a battle, a Key Area will appear in the center of the map. Its diameter will shrink over time, and the team that captures it will be able to quickly gain a point advantage and ultimately win.

We've reworked the bonuses given by buffs. They now also apply to carrier squadrons and provide:

• Increased ship speed and a faster rudder-shift time; reduced aircraft engine boost cooldown time.
  
• Continuous restoration of HP as a percentage of the maximum HP pool for ships and aircraft.
  
• Faster reload time of the main battery and torpedo armament; faster aircraft restoration time on a carrier's deck.
  
• Faster reload time of ship and squadron consumables.

In Update 0.9.1, many old upgrades will be updated and some new ones will be added. These changes will make the selection of upgrades more interesting and diverse.

We've also removed all type and tier restrictions for any special upgrades that improve the efficiency of ship consumables, provided that the ship has the respective slot.

Some upgrades will be replaced with new ones. If you have any of these upgrades already mounted on your ships, they will be replaced with their new versions. You will get compensation in the form of credits for any upgrades in your Inventory that are removed from the game, and the amount of credits provided will be equal to the removed upgrade's full cost.



This upgrade combines the bonuses provided by the Propulsion Modification 1 and Steering Gears Modification 1 upgrades which are scheduled to be removed from the game:

• −20% to the chances of critical damage to the engine and steering gears
  
• −20% to the repair time of the engine and steering gears

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +20% to the traverse speed of torpedo tubes
  
• −40% to the chances of critical damage to torpedo tubes
  
• +5% to the speed of shipborne torpedoes

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +5% to the speed of torpedoes dropped from the air

This upgrade can be mounted on an aircraft carrier only.

Replaces the Target Acquisition System Modification 1 upgrade and provides the following bonuses:

• Increases the range of assured acquisition of torpedoes to a fixed value of 1.8 km (this range can be further extended by learning the Vigilance skill)

Please note: the upgrade doesn't extend the torpedo acquisition range for the Hydroacoustic Search consumable.

The Target Acquisition System Modification 1 upgrade was rarely used by players, and wasn't as efficient as the Concealment System Modification 1 upgrade. We've introduced changes to this upgrade in order to make it more relevant.

The bonus of +20% to the acquisition range of torpedoes heavily depended on their detectability range: this bonus was ineffective against torpedoes with low detectability, and very effective against torpedoes with high detectability.

The new bonus doesn't depend on the characteristics of any approaching torpedoes. You will always be able to spot torpedoes at a fixed distance of 1.8 km without taking the effects of the Vigilance skill into consideration. This change will allow your ship to actively counter the torpedo armament of your enemy.

We wanted to set a fixed assured acquisition range of 2 km and totally eliminate situations where the enemy detects you when you haven't spotted them. That's why we've replaced the bonus for the range of assured acquisition of ships in the game.

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +10% to the action time of ship consumables

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +50% to the action time of squadron consumables

This upgrade can be mounted on an aircraft carrier only.

This upgrade will replace the AA Guns Modification 2 and Secondary Battery Modification 2 upgrades that are scheduled to be removed from the game:

• +15% to the continuous damage of AA guns
  
• +15% to the damage within the explosion radius of shells fired by AA defenses
  
• −20% to the secondary battery reload time
  
• +2 explosions in AA salvos when the Defensive AA Fire consumable is active

• Added a bonus reducing the cooldown time of the Defensive AA Fire consumable by 10%

• Removed the penalty to the main battery gun reload time

• The bonus providing additional explosions in AA salvos has been replaced with a 20% reduction in the preparation time of the priority AA sector.

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

The bonus providing a certain number of explosions was ineffective for most ships whose AA defenses produce a lot of explosions, and for some ships—especially destroyers—it didn't work at all. The new bonus reducing the AA priority sector preparation time will be effective on any ship that has AA armament. This is because the priority sector, in addition to reinforcing the continuous AA damage, deals damage as a percentage of the enemy squadron's current HP. The exact percentage depends only on your ship's tier.

• The bonus applied to the action time of the Surveillance Radar consumable has been increased from 10% to 20%

This bonus has been improved in order to highlight the difference between X Worcester's unique upgrade and the new Ship Consumables Modification 1 upgrade, which provides a similar bonus, is situated in the same slot, and is available on other ships.

As the opening move towards the changes that have been promised for unique upgrades, we've updated the way in which they are obtained. With the release of Update 0.9.3, unique upgrades will appear in the Armory's Research Bureau. The combat missions for unique upgrades will also change.

• With the release of Update 0.9.1, you cannot get combat missions for unique upgrades.
  
• The end date for any combat missions you have already received will be December 31, 2020.

We're going to revamp the existing upgrades and also add new upgrades in future. Stay tuned for more news!

• The order in which in-game possibilities unlock has been changed.
  
• The number of battles required to reach the majority of Service Record levels has been reduced.
  
• The rewards granted for opening various levels of the Service Record have been updated.

You can learn more details about the changes to the Service Record in the game client.

Please note: all players who started playing before the release of Update 0.9.1 will receive all the newly added rewards for the levels they have already reached, minus the rewards they had received in the old version of the Service Record.

Thus, any players who have already reached the final level in their Service Record by the time that Update 0.9.1 is released will receive 15,000 Coal, 4 days of Premium Account, a supercontainer, and nine daily containers (with five More Resources containers among them), as well as upgrades, expendable camouflage patterns, and economic and special signals.

When Update 0.9.1 hits the servers, Shipbuilding Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:7,500.

The unique historical Commander, Philippe Auboyneau, has been added. He's available in exchange for for 175,000 Coal. He has the unique Sparks of Resistance, Fully Armed, and Speed and Composure talents, as well as the enhanced Survivability Expert skill.

Effective as of the release of Update 0.9.3, the following ships will no longer be available in the Armory: X Smolensk, IX Jean Bart, IX Neustrashimy, VII Flint, and IX Black.

Smolensk and Jean Bart have become very popular warships for their tiers. In order to maintain the proper level of diversity in teams in terms of the ships they are made up of, these ships will no longer be available to obtain for an undefined period of time, but may return in future.

For a number of reasons, Neustrashimy, Flint, and Black are not currently strongly sought after in exchange for Steel. That is why they will no longer be available in exchange for Steel, but will later become available in exchange for Coal. However, this will be after 6 months at the earliest.

We understand that accumulating resources for ships is a long process, which is why we wanted to warn you in advance so that any interested players can still steer these ships into their Ports before Update 0.9.3 goes live.

The map is designed for Tier VIII–X battles in the Epicenter and Domination modes, with three Key Areas.

Battles will be fought in the harsh Northern territories, among snow-blanketed islands where the sun appears for only several hours each day.

• The western part is an open-water space with several large islands, providing good possibilities for battleships and destroyers to maneuver.
  
• The central part is also open water, but at the same time it contains islands that will allow you to find shelter from any fire from the flanks. Besides that, the location of islands and their landscapes make it possible to push through the center into the flanks.
  
• The eastern part has many islands behind which cruisers and destroyers can find shelter from enemy fire. This part is suitable for those players who prefer inflicting sudden attacks on the enemy, and who can skillfully make use of limited shelter.

You can find even more information about what’s going in the game by clicking the spoiler:

• For ships and squadrons, we've changed the icons and exterior view of the indicators on the armament panel.
  
• When in battle, UI elements can now be hidden using Ctrl+J.
  
• Reworked the icon for the destroyer ship type.

The display of AA defense characteristics in the Port has been updated:

• AA defense parameters that are displayed in the Port have been changed: Now the players can view the following parameters:
  
  • Average continuous damage
    
  • Damage per second within a shell's explosion radius
    
  • Maximum priority sector reinforcement
    
  • AA gun maximum firing range
  
  
• A pop-up tooltip with detailed parameters has been added for each position in the AA defense characteristics.
  
• The information you can view during battle on the tooltip called by pressing the H key has been changed.

Please note: average damage is calculated by summing up the damage dealt by all AA defense zones. The damage dealt by each AA defense zone, taking into account its accuracy, is multiplied by the "weight" coefficient of the particular AA defense zone in relation to the ship's overall air defense capabilities. This coefficient is equal to the ratio between the firing range of a particular AA defense zone and the maximum firing range of the ship's AA defenses. With this in mind, to calculate the average continuous damage we use the total damage dealt by the long-range AA defenses (as this range extends over the entire AA firing range of the ship), and part of the damage dealt by the medium- and short-range AA defenses—depending on their firing range.

In Update 0.9.1, we've changed the characteristics of several ships, having analyzed their combat performance and taken player feedback into account. Such changes were required in order to carefully adjust the balance of selected warships. We'll continue to introduce changes in the updates that will follow, if deemed necessary.

• Fixed a bug that caused an inconsistency between the accuracy of her standard attack aircraft and that of her researchable attack aircraft. The accuracy of her standard attack aircraft has now been reduced to the level of her researchable type.
  
• The damage dealt by rockets from attack aircraft has been reduced from 3,450 to 3,350.

• Her main battery reload time has been reduced from 5 to 4.8 seconds.

• Standard torpedo reload time has been reduced from 106 to 103 seconds.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 118 seconds.

• The sigma parameter for her main battery guns has been reduced from 1.6 to 1.55.

• The sigma parameter for her main battery guns has been reduced from 1.9 to 1.85.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 68 to 69 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 146 to 142 seconds.

• Standard torpedo speed has been increased from 55 to 56 knots.
  
• Standard torpedo reload time has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.
  
• Researchable torpedo speed has been increased from 66 to 67 knots.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.

• Researchable torpedo speed has been increased from 55 to 56 knots.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 68 to 69 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 136 to 133 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 63 to 64 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 110 to 107 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 61 to 62 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 131 to 128 seconds.

• Continuous damage of long-range AA defenses has been reduced from 95 to 53 HP per second
  
• Continuous damage of medium-range AA defenses has been increased from 151 to 161 HP per second
  
• Continuous damage of short-range AA defenses has been increased from 158 to 165 HP per second
  
• Number of AA shell explosions has been reduced from four to two
  
• Damage within the area of AA shell explosions has been reduced from 1,400 to 1,120

• The viewing range (being the parameter that shows the distance at which an aircraft can spot the enemy) of aircraft carriers' squadrons, as well as that of fighters and spotting aircraft, has been reduced from 20 to 19 km.

Added a flag for the Recruiting Station referral program.

The following ships have been added for testing by developers, volunteer testers, and community contributors: IX Ägir, X Yashima, VIII Arashi, and VIII Orkan.

Operation Narai has been removed from rotation due to technical issues.

• VIII HSF Harekaze: hull geometry updated.
  
• VII Z-39, VI Trento, X Venezia, and X Kremlin: fixed the designations of her gun fire control system modules.
  
• VIII Irian: changed the designation for her torpedo module.
  
• X Puerto Rico: fixed the display of secondary battery data in the ship's technical specifications.
  
• X Midway: changed the designation of her torpedoes.
  
• IX Bajie and IX Izumo: fixed the armor protection of the conning tower. 
  
• IX Roon: the armor protection for the barbette of the fore 150 mm secondary battery turret is now displayed in the Port.
  
• VIII Mogami and V Yahagi: updated the geometry of their main battery turrets.
  
• V Gremyashchy: added a second color scheme for the camouflage.
  
• VIII ARP Takao: fixed the exterior view of turrets when the ARPEGGIO RED camouflage is applied.
  
• Updated sounds in the Designer's Table Port.
  
• Fixed a glitch which disabled the sound of aircraft flying by in the sky in the London Port.
  
• Fixed a bug which disabled gunfire sounds when the sound quality was set to "Low" in Audio Settings.
  
• Removed visual artifacts on the Neighbors and Land of Fire maps, as well as in the Taranto Port.
  
• Fixed a number of glitches affecting the display of containers in the Port.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing the language bar from being displayed in the game client.
  
• Fixed an issue which in certain cases prevented players from receiving bonuses provided by Clan structures.
  
• Fixed a glitch which prevented the display of smoke trails from rockets fired by attack aircraft.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the "Your Rewards" window header to move outside of the screen border.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused game login errors on computers with non-typical names in the OS settings.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the incorrect icon of the reticule to be displayed when a player was controlling a squadron from an aircraft carrier.
  
• Now the tooltip informing players about the possibility of reloading a torpedo tube isn't displayed if the main battery guns are selected.

World of Warships is the largest virtual shipyard in the world. The quality of the work done by our artists improves each year, and the requirements for the accuracy of the models they create grow respectively.

Unfortunately, the in-game camera doesn't allow you to see all the details and beauty. In the Dry Dock show, you'll be able to see the refined beauty of our in-game models and duly appreciate the immaculate details of the various objects on their decks.

Today, we're focusing on the French Tier IX Premium battleship, Jean Bart. Built under the 1935 shipbuilding program, this Richelieu-class battleship was commissioned after World War II. The battleship resisted the Allied landings near Casablanca in 1942, and was badly damaged by airstrikes and artillery fire. The ship was finally completed after the war. She received the most advanced AA artillery available for her time, which significantly enhanced her AA defenses.

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If you’re interested in recruiting one or more of these remarkable Commanders, click on the "Participate" button to unlock access to some special combat missions. Completing them all will reward you with five Fleet of Fog ships and Commander Yotaroh!

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• VIII ARP Takao is a versatile heavy cruiser with powerful artillery, devastating torpedoes, high speed, and low detectability. The ship comes with the alternative Arpeggio permanent camouflage.
  
• VII ARP Ashigara, VII ARP Nachi, VII ARP Haguro, and VII ARP Myōkō are effective heavy cruisers, capable of engaging any enemy with the help of their numerous 203 mm guns and 610 mm torpedoes.
  
• V ARP Kirishima, V ARP Haruna, V ARP Kongō, and V ARP Hiei are high-speed battleships with long firing ranges for their tier.

ARP ships are Premium ships. This means that they earn more credits per battle, and their permanent camouflages provide bonuses to XP, as well as reduce the cost of their post-battle service. You can reassign Commanders from any Japanese ships to ARP ships without having to retrain them. XP earned on ARP ships can be converted into Free XP. ARP ships have a special set of unique visual effects for shell and torpedo hits, fires, and flooding.

Each ship comes with her respective same-name Commander with a unique voiceover from the anime series.

You can disable the display of additional content anytime. Starting from Update 0.9.0, all camo bonuses remain active even when their display is disabled. In this case, the standard permanent camouflage or, in the case where a ship doesn’t have one, the Type 5 camouflage will be displayed.

Commanders Gunzo Chihaya and Iona, each with 11 skill points, are available in the Premium Shop.

• Commander Iona with 11 skill points
  
• 11×Dragon signals
  
• 11×Red Dragon signals

• Commander Gunzo Chihaya with 11 skill points
  
• 11×Dragon signals
  
• 11×Red Dragon signals

For those who want it all and want it now—we've got you covered. We have a big bundle comprising all ships and Commanders especially for you.

• VII ARP Ashigara
  
• VII ARP Nachi
  
• VII ARP Haguro
  
• VII ARP Myōkō
  
• V ARP Kirishima
  
• V ARP Haruna
  
• V ARP Kongō
  
• V ARP Hiei
  
• VIII ARP Takao
  
• 9×Commander with 10 skill points
  
• 9×Port Slot
  
• 9×Combat mission: x3 XP for 25 battles
  
• Arpeggio permanent camouflage for Tier VIII ARP Takao
  
• Commander Iona with 10 skill points
  
• Commander Gunzo Chihaya with 10 skill points

Complete four chains of combat missions and you'll get five ARP Premium ships! The combat missions will remain available until the release of Update 0.9.1. You can complete these chains of combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Operations, Random Battles, or Co-op Battles.
Start: Fri. 31 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Thu. 13 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• You can complete each chain of missions only once.
  
• If you obtain a ship that you already have in your Port, you will get compensation in credits, a Commander, and a Port slot.

Please note: you can have several identical ARP Commanders in your Port simultaneously.

If you already have V ARP Kirishima, V ARP Haruna, V ARP Kongō, or V ARP Hiei, you'll receive 3,750,000 credits as compensation for each ship. If you already have VII ARP Myōkō, you'll receive 6,375,000 credits as compensation for the ship.

The anime and manga are set in the near future, at a time when the mysterious Fleet of Fog has seized control over the World Ocean. An enigmatic invincible squadron is made up of the reincarnations of legendary ships from the first half of the 20th century, with Kongō, Kirishima, and Takao being among them.

Equipped with a mysterious superweapon, and led by battleship Yamato, the new masters of the oceans block the humans from accessing the seas—destroying anything that dares to move offshore. Many corners of the earth, including Japan, find themselves isolated and cut off from the rest of the world.

Ships of the Fleet of Fog are commanded by their human-like Mental Models. Iona, the Mental Model of Japanese submarine I-401, chooses to defect across to the humans in a bid to turn the tide of the war against the Fleet of Fog.

Capsuleers of EVE Online and Commanders of World of Warships, prepare yourselves for the CCP × Wargaming Bundle, giving you DLC for both games with just one purchase!

• 7 days of the Omega premium subscription, giving you access to all ships and skills in EVE
  
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• 250,000 Skill Points to boost your training!

• 7 days of Warships Premium Account, giving you bonuses of +65% XP and +50% credits per battle
  
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• 10 Sci-Fi Space camouflages

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EVE Online and World of Warships allow their players to choose between a variety of ship classes, and there is a degree of similarity in the division of classes across the games. The available choices enable tactical diversity to flourish for players in both game worlds. Destroyers, cruisers, battleships, and carriers are examples of the ship types that players can use to employ a wide range of strategies—including tactical fitting—on the seas of World of Warships and among the stars of New Eden.

There's never been a better time to try EVE Online and World of Warships, so grab the CCP × Wargaming Bundle today to get off to an explosive start in both New Eden and out on the open virtual seas!

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Each month our subscribers will get some goodies, and they might be different each time! Subscribe now to receive the following at the end of this month:

• 1x More Consumables container
  
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We’re going to use Steam inventory items for distribution, so you won't miss it when the item arrives—a notification will appear to let you know! After receiving a notification, log in via the Steam client to receive the goodies on your account. Additionally, all current subscribers have received an extra reward so don't miss your chance!

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Start: Fri. 24 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Fri. 31 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• +200% XP bonus for the first win of the day
  
• −50% to the cost of Port slots in doubloons
  
• −50% to the cost of upgrades in credits
  
• −80% to the cost of demounting upgrades in doubloons

Start: Fri. 24 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Mon. 27 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• You can convert Elite Commander XP into Free XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP

Start: Fri. 24 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Win a battle playing a Tier V–X ship, and you'll get a commemorative flag honoring the Year of the White Metal Rat, as well as three Wargaming containers. Each of them includes 1 day of Premium Account, 3x Papa Papa signals, and 3x Juliet Charlie signals.

You can complete this combat mission only once.

Start: Fri. 24 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)



Complete a chain of combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Operations, Random Battles, or Co-op Battles, and you'll get eight Lunar New Year containers!

• 1x Pan-Asian Premium ship (Tier IX Bajie with Commander Zhu Bajie; Tier VIII Siliwangi; Tier VIII VIII Irian; Tier VIII Wukong with Commander Sun Wukong; Tier VIII Loyang; Tier VI Anshan; or Tier VI Huanghe)
  
• 1x permanent Lunar New Year camouflage for one of the Pan-Asian Premium ships (Siliwangi, Irian, Loyang, Anshan, or Huanghe)
  
• 1x Spring Sky, Asian Lantern, or Mosaic expendable camouflage
  
• 2x Type 59 expendable camouflages
  
• 3x Lunar Warrior expendable camouflages
  
• 5,000 Free XP
  
• 1 day of Warships Premium Account
  
• 250 doubloons

All ships come with a Port slot and 10-skill-point Commander. Bajie and Wukong come with the same-name unique Commanders. If you do not immediately open your container, and prior to opening it you manage to get a ship or camouflage that could drop from that container, you might get the same ship or camouflage again. In such a case you’ll receive compensation equal to the item’s value in the form of doubloons plus, in the case where a ship is dropped, you'll also receive a Commander with 10 skill points and a Port slot.

Cruiser VIII Wukong and battleship IX Bajie are two new Pan-Asian ships named after the characters of the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West”—Monkey King Sun Wukong and wizard Zhu Bajie. Bundles comprising ships, unique Commanders, rare expendable camouflages, economic signals, and other in-game items are available in the Premium Shop at great discounts.
Bundles are available for purchase until: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)


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VIII Wukong is a cruiser named after the Monkey King—one of the main mythological characters in Chinese culture. Sun Wukong is an immortal demon who acquired extraordinary powers after long years of wandering in the pursuit of spiritual perfection. His adventures are described in the Chinese classical novel "Journey to the West." In World of Warships, the cruiser represents Pan-Asia at Tier VIII. She carries a combination of French artillery and Pan-Asian long-range deepwater torpedoes.

• Nine 203 mm guns placed in three turrets. The cruiser can boast of having artillery with a good range and a fast reload time for the caliber
  
• Two triple-tube torpedo launchers. The deepwater torpedoes of this ship have a low detectability range; good torpedo range for her tier—12 km; and a high maximum damage of 18,400 HP per hit, but they are not capable of striking destroyers
  
• The Torpedo Reload Booster consumable, placed in a separate slot, allows her to launch one torpedo salvo 8 seconds after another several times during the course of a battle
  
• The Spotting Aircraft consumable temporarily extends the firing range of her main guns
  
• She earns more credits per battle, and her permanent camouflage adds a 50% XP bonus per battle and reduces the cost of the ship's post-battle service by 10%

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.





IX Bajie is a battleship named after a half-man, half-pig being, and one of the main mythological characters in Chinese culture. Zhu Bajie is a wizard who achieved immortality, but was later expelled from the heavens and condemned to walk the earth as punishment for his human passions. His adventures are described in the Chinese classical novel "Journey to the West." In World of Warships, the ship represents Pan-Asia at Tier IX.

• Nine 410 mm guns placed in three turrets. All the guns are mounted at the fore end of the ship. The battleship has artillery with a medium range for her tier and enjoys good shell grouping
  
• Good secondary battery with a 7 km standard range and chances between 8–10% of setting the target on fire, depending on the gun type
  
• Access to the Spotting Aircraft consumable, which increases her firing range, or the Fighter consumable, which is used to repel air attacks
  
• She earns more credits per battle, and her permanent camouflage adds a 100% XP bonus per battle and reduces the cost of the ship's post-battle service by 20%

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.






Pan-Asian destroyer VIII Siliwangi is equipped with powerful deepwater torpedoes and Hydroacoustic Search with a significant action range. A bundle is available, which, in addition to the new destroyer, includes a themed permanent camouflage, rare expendable camouflages, and other valuable items.
Bundles are available for purchase until: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• VIII Siliwangi   
  
• Commander with 10 skill points
  
• Lunar New Year permanent camouflage for VIII Siliwangi
  
• Combat mission: x3 XP for 25 battles
  
• 3,000,000
  
• 10×Spring Sky camouflages
  
• 30×Lunar Warrior Camouflage Patterns
  
• 40×Equal Speed Charlie London
  
• 40×India Bravo Terrathree
  
• 40×Zulu Hotel
  
• 40×Zulu
  
• 40×Papa Papa
  
• Commemorative flag
  
• Port slot

VIII Siliwangi is a Soviet destroyer built under Project 30-bis and transferred to the Indonesian Navy in 1959. In World of Warships, she represents Pan-Asia at Tier VIII and comes equipped with the Hydroacoustic Search consumable with a large action range, as well as deepwater torpedoes.

• Four 130 mm guns placed in two turrets. Firing range—12.5 km; reload time—5 seconds
  
• Two quintuple-tube torpedo launchers. Her deepwater torpedoes enjoy a low detectability range of only 0.8 km, but are not capable of striking destroyers. Maximum damage per hit—17,933 HP
  
• The Hydroacoustic Search consumable enables her to detect enemy ships at distances of up to 5.5 km, and torpedoes at distances of up to 3.75 km
  
• The Smoke Generator consumable sets a smoke screen for 30 seconds. Smoke screen dispersion time—70 seconds. The enhanced consumable has a cooldown period of just 100 seconds
  
• She earns more credits per battle, and her permanent camouflage adds a 50% XP bonus per battle and reduces the cost of the ship's post-battle service by 10%

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.







In Update 0.9.0, cruisers VII Southern Dragon and VII Eastern Dragon have become Premium ships and received all associated in-game economic bonuses. During the Lunar New Year celebrations, bundles with the Dragon ships, Dragon signals, and unique Commanders are available in the game.
Bundles are available for purchase until: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

VII Southern Dragon is named after Ào Qin—the Dragon King of the South Sea in Chinese tradition. In World of Warships, she is a typical representative of Japanese cruisers—a well-armed and durable ship carrying powerful artillery and long-range torpedoes.

• Ten 203 mm guns placed in five turrets. Her main guns are peculiar for their very powerful HE shells, but are inferior to the guns of other same-tier heavy cruisers in terms of firing range and rate of fire
  
• Four triple-tube torpedo launchers. Their 10 km range and maximum damage of 17,233 HP per hit make them an effective weapon when fighting against any enemy
  
• High maximum speed for her type and tier—35 knots
  
• She earns more credits per battle, and her permanent camouflage adds a 50% XP bonus per battle and reduces the cost of the ship's post-battle service by 10%

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.

VII Eastern Dragon is named after Ào Guǎng—the Dragon King of the East Sea in Chinese tradition. In World of Warships, she is a typical representative of Japanese cruisers—a well-armed ship carrying powerful artillery and long-range torpedoes.

• Ten 203 mm guns placed in five turrets. Her main guns are peculiar for their very powerful HE shells, but are inferior to the guns of other same-tier heavy cruisers in terms of firing range and rate of fire
  
• Four triple-tube torpedo launchers. Their 10 km range and maximum damage of 17,233 HP per hit make them an effective weapon when fighting against any enemy
  
• High maximum speed for her type and tier—35 knots
  
• She earns more credits per battle, and her permanent camouflage adds a 50% XP bonus per battle and reduces the cost of the ship's post-battle service by 10%

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.













Bundles are available for purchase until: Mon. 10 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
A Lunar New Year 2019 Premium container can include one of the following rewards:

• A Pan-Asian Premium ship (Tier IX Bajie with Commander Zhu Bajie; Tier VIII Siliwangi; Tier VIII Irian; Tier VIII Wukong with Commander Sun Wukong; Tier VIII Loyang; Tier VI Anshan; or Tier VI Huanghe)
  
• Lunar New Year permanent camouflage for one of the following Pan-Asian Premium ships: Siliwangi, Irian, Loyang, Anshan, or Huanghe
  
• 3x Spring Sky, Asian Lantern, or Mosaic expendable camouflages
  
• 6x Type 59 expendable camouflages
  
• 12x Lunar Warrior expendable camouflages
  
• 20,000 Free XP
  
• 8 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 750 doubloons

Ships are credited with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points. Bajie and Wukong come with same-name unique Commanders. If you purchase a ship or camouflage after you purchase a container, but before having opened it, and the container drops a ship or camouflage that you already have, you'll receive compensation for the value of the ship or camouflage in the form of doubloons. In the case of a ship being dropped, you will also receive a Commander with 10 skill points and a Port slot.

Premium containers offer higher chances of dropping Premium ships or permanent camouflages than standard containers.

Please note: combat missions of the “Sea of Fortune” Season will be available

from Wed. 22 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)
through Mon. 09 Mar. 08:00 CET (UTC+1)

Play one Clan Battle between January 22 and February 5 to redistribute Commander skill points for free.

• Format: Tier X ships in a 7 vs. 7 format.
  
• Restrictions: no aircraft carriers allowed and no more than one battleship per team.
  
• Rewards: up to 11,000 Steel and many additional rewards.
  
• Maps: Hotspot, Sea of Fortune, Tears of the Desert, Crash Zone Alpha, Mountain Range, Land of Fire, and North.
  
• Mode: Domination.
  
• Season Features: a cyclone is guaranteed to appear on each of the following maps: Mountain Range, Land of Fire, and North.

Spotting range during a cyclone is 12 km instead of the usual 8 km for a Random Battle. The point in time at which a cyclone appears, as well as its duration, are strictly predetermined and don't change.

Starts: Wed. 22 Jan. 12:30 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Mon. 09 Mar. 04:30 CET (UTC+1)

Gaming sessions are available on: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

On the days of any update releases, Clan Battles are held only during the prime time of your server.

Detailed information on the rewards and conditions for the combat missions can be found in the game client.

Clans with Ranks 1–50 in the Global Rating will receive between 5,000 and 25,000 Steel.
* Each following step brings 250 less Steel.

Clans that don't enter the Top 50 will receive amounts of Steel and Coal in their Treasury that correspond to their League and Group.

• Number of Key Areas: 3
  
• Capture time: 40 seconds
  
• Points from a captured Key Area: 3 points per 4 seconds

The main feature of the Season is a guaranteed appearance of the cyclone on the Mountain Range, Land of Fire, and North maps. Unlike Random Battles, cyclones work according to strict rules in the new Clan Battles Season:

• They appear in five minutes after a battle begins
  
• The visibility range drops to 12 km in 1 minute
  
• A cyclone rages for 6 minutes, after which the visibility gradually returns to standard values within a period of 2 minutes

These settings, coupled with the strictly defined conditions of the cyclone’s occurrence, will make team tactics and gameplay more varied by reducing the engagement distance between opponents. The visibility range of 12 km will prevent cruisers equipped with the Surveillance Radar consumable from discovering enemy ships while remaining undetected themselves.

When the Season starts, any player who plays a Clan, Co-op, or Random Battle steering a Tier VIII–X ship, will be given a set of three special Tier X ships for temporary use: X [Großer Kurfürst], X [Zaō], and X [Grozovoi].  On February 3, these will be replaced by X [Montana], X [Moskva], and X [Shimakaze]. The final trio—X [Yamato], X [Hindenburg], and X [Gearing] will arrive in your Port on February 17.

Please note that the servers will be temporarily unavailable due to the release of an update. The schedule is available below.
Maintenance times are tentative and subject to change. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences.
The new update will go live some time after it's been downloaded because the client and server sides are updated separately. While the client begins to update immediately, it takes time for the servers to be updated across all regions.

If there are problems with downloading or launching the update—please perform files integrity check.

Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.



British heavy cruisers V Hawkins, VI Devonshire, VII Surrey, and VIII Albemarle are arriving in Early Access. To obtain them, exchange the new event resource—British Tokens—in the Armory for random bundles which can drop the new ships.

With the release of Update 0.9.1, Tier V–X British heavy cruisers will become available for all players to research in the Tech Tree.

• Their guns can cause significant damage per salvo, but have a relatively short firing range and arching shell trajectory.
  
• Unlike British light cruisers, the nation’s heavy cruisers can use high-explosive shells.
  
• Tube-by-tube torpedo launching capabilities.
  
• Durable armor in the central part of their decks for Tier VI ships and higher give representatives of the new branch greater survivability in comparison to other cruisers.
  
• Efficient Repair Party consumable: restores 50% of citadel damage, as opposed to the standard 10% for this ship type. Starting from Tier VIII, Repair Party restores 2% of the ship’s maximum HP per second instead of the standard 0.5%.
  
• All researchable British heavy cruisers can choose between Hydroacoustic Search and Defensive AA Fire.

Cruisers IX Drake and X Goliath have even more powerful artillery: main guns with a caliber of 234 mm and high-explosive shells that can penetrate armor up to 58 mm thick. Additionally, their Repair Party consumables are capable of restoring 60% of non-citadel damage.

The new game event tasks you with completing 36 missions spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.0, while those that follow will be unlocked each week. Completing missions will bring you signals, expendable camouflages, and credits; completing Directives will reward you with British Tokens.

British Tokens can be obtained from Daily Shipments or earned by completing Directives and Daily Missions. In a new Armory section, you can exchange the Tokens for random bundles which can drop British heavy cruisers V Hawkins, VI Devonshire, VII Surrey, or VIII Albemarle. Each ship comes with the Victorian White permanent camouflage.

• The contents of the currently available bundle will be visible to you.
  
• After each exchange, the contents of the next random bundle will be visible to you.
  
• Bundles that don't contain ships may appear more than once.

Apart from the ships, random bundles can drop days of Warships Premium Account, Coal, camouflages, and special signals.

Bundles that include significant hauls of desirable items are also available in exchange for doubloons in the Armory.

British Tokens can be obtained only in Update 0.9.0. With the release of Update 0.9.2, all British Tokens will be converted into credits at a rate of 1:4,500.

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Start: Wed. 22 Jan. 12:30 CET (UTC+1)
End: Mon. 09 Mar. 05:30 CET (UTC+1)

Format: Tier X ships in a 7 vs. 7 format.

Restrictions: a maximum of one battleship per team and no aircraft carriers allowed.

Rewards: up to 11,000 Steel and many additional rewards.

Maps: Hotspot, Sea of Fortune, Tears of the Desert, Crash Zone Alpha, Mountain Range, Land of Fire, and North.

Season Features: a cyclone is guaranteed to appear on each of the following maps: Mountain Range, Land of Fire, and North. Spotting range during a cyclone is 12 km instead of the usual 8 km for a Random Battle. The point in time at which a cyclone appears, as well as its duration, are strictly predetermined and don't change.

We'll provide you with more details about the Season in a dedicated article.

As the opening move towards the changes that have been promised for unique upgrades, we've updated the way in which they are obtained. With the release of Update 0.9.2, unique upgrades will appear in the Research Bureau tab of the Armory. The challenges and combat missions for unique upgrades will also change.

• The combat missions that reward players with unique upgrades for Tier X ships can still be received until the release of Update 0.9.1, by playing one battle with the specified Tier X ship.
  
• Any of these combat missions already obtained prior to this point will expire on December 31, 2020.

We’re going to update the existing upgrades and add some new ones in future.



Ships dedicated to the collaboration with Arpeggio of Blue Steel (V ARP Kongō, V ARP Kirishima, V ARP Haruna, V ARP Hiei, VII ARP Myōkō, VII ARP Nachi, VII ARP Ashigara, VII ARP Haguro, and VIII ARP Takao), as well, as the VII Southern Dragon and VII Eastern Dragon custom ships, are becoming Premium ships. They will now earn more credits and their permanent camouflages will provide economic bonuses.

A new camouflage for VIII ARP Takao has also been added.

On the occasion of Lunar New Year, we've added some flags, patches, permanent camouflages, and Commanders. Read a dedicated article to learn how to obtain them, as well as new ships VIII Wukong, IX Bajie, and VIII Siliwangi.

Find even more information about what’s going in the game by clicking the spoiler: game balance changes, additions or changes to content, and other improvements.

• The reload time of her main guns has been reduced from 10.5 to 9.8 seconds.

Boosting her reload speed will improve the cruiser's combat performance.

• The amount of HP restored by her Repair Party consumable has been increased from 0.5% to 0.66% of the maximum HP pool per second.

The parameters of X Montana’s Repair Party are now equivalent to those of the same consumable on other researchable U.S. battleships.

• The HP pool of her AA mounts has been reduced by half.

In addition to her good armor and large HP pool, X Kremlin has highly efficient AA guns that were previously too hard to destroy. This meant that the battleship was able to enjoy solid protection against aircraft for the duration of an entire battle. The change will make it easier for aircraft carriers to attack the battleship in the middle stages of a battle, at the point when some of her AA mounts have been destroyed.

• The horizontal aiming angles of her main guns have been extended on both sides:
  
  • First turret: by 10 degrees
    
  • Second turret: by 1 degree
    
  • Fourth turret: by 15 degrees
• The traverse angles of her torpedo tubes have been extended by:
  
  • 8 degrees to the bow
    
  • 2 degrees to the stern

The new angles will make shooting and torpedo launching more comfortable.

• The HP pool of her standard hull has been reduced from 9,300 to 7,900.
  
• The HP pool of her researchable hull has been reduced from 10,900 to 9,300.

These changes will reduce the overall battle efficiency of the ship and balance it with that of other Tier III destroyers.

• The ship's detectability range has been increased:
  
  • By sea: from 9.04 to 9.54 km
    
  • By air: from 4.35 to 4.59 km
    
  • After firing her main guns while in smoke: from 3.7 to 3.96 km
• The detectability range of her torpedoes has been increased from 1.4 to 1.8 km

• The ship's detectability range has been increased:
  
  • By sea: from 8.88 to 9.88 km
    
  • By air: from 4.83 to 5.38 km
    
  • After firing her main guns while in smoke: from 3.63 to 4.15 km
• The detectability range of her torpedoes has been increased from 1.4 to 1.8 km

Their detectability parameters and high speeds previously enabled IX Mogador and X Kléber to perform surprise attacks without giving the enemy enough time to respond. This ability, combined with the main strength of French destroyers—their efficient main guns—made these ships too powerful in comparison with other destroyers.

• The time it takes for her engine to reach full power has been increased.
  
• The acceleration parameters with the Engine Boost consumable activated have been changed.

Due to her Engine Boost consumable and high standard speed, X Henri IV was able to avoid enemy fire by reducing or increasing her speed. Now the ship will accelerate and stop more smoothly. With Engine Boost activated, her acceleration will be approximately the same as her standard acceleration without the effects of the consumable prior to the change.



The following maps have been reworked to accommodate the new lighting model and enhanced HDR technology: Warrior’s Path, Okinawa, Sea of Fortune, The Atlantic, and Trap.

We've also improved the water reflections and rendering of shadows cast by static objects.

We've updated the Additional Content settings. Now you can enjoy the bonuses provided by camouflages even when their display is disabled. In this case, the standard permanent camouflage or, in case a ship doesn’t have one, the Type 5 camouflage will be displayed. Under the Exterior tab, such camouflages are marked with a special icon.

We've improved the performance of the Port. Campaigns, combat missions, and other windows with multiple elements will now open faster.

The armor layout in the Port and the way that armor is displayed on a ship have been updated. More colors are now used to display elements of different thicknesses, and the Plating armor group has been divided into two sections: Ship's Ends and Torpedo Protection. Only the thicknesses and armor groups that the selected ship actually has will be displayed.





We’ve added a new expendable camouflage—Volunteer—to reward World of Warships volunteers.



The following permanent camouflages, available in exchange for doubloons, have been added to the Camouflage tab in the Exterior section: Royal Navy for VIII Lightning[/b] and VI Gallant[/b]; National for VI Warspite[/b], VI Admiral Graf Spee[/b], VI Shinonome[/b]; and The Republic for VIII Richelieu[/b] and VIII Gascogne[/b].

I Gryf, II Tátra, III Romulus, IV Klas Horn, V Visby, VI Västerås, VII Skåne, VIII Öland, IX Östergötland, X Halland, X Småland have been added for testing by developers, volunteers, and community contributors.

Please remember that with the release of Update 0.9.0, all unused Mediterranean Tokens will be converted into credits at a rate of 1:22,500.

• Fixed a bug which caused the shadow of the airship to disappear in the New York and Hamburg Ports.
  
• Added text and sound notifications for the beginning of a cyclone and reaching the minimum spotting range during a cyclone.
  
• Updated the display of V Émile Bertin’s main gun armor.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the incorrect indication of an aircraft's engine boost reload time in the description in the Port when the presence of Commander skills or upgrades influenced the engine boost time.
  
• National flags are now replaced with the Halloween flag when the Infernal camouflage is used.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the water-churning animation of a sinking ship to be abruptly interrupted.
  
• Enhanced Spectator Mode: the display of shells, torpedoes, and Surveillance Radar effects for spectators have been fixed.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused rudder shifting in autopilot mode when moving along a straight course.
  
• Made minor changes to the armor geometry of IV Imperator Nikolai I and IV Hermes.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused text to be typed incorrectly in the “Ship search by name” field in the Filters window.
  
• Subheadings have been aligned on the post-battle statistics screen. Tooltips display a shortened form of the shell types on the Detailed Report screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the gun shields of VII Sims B from being displayed.
  
• Fixed camera bugs that occurred when playing IX Alaska B, VII Scharnhorst B, VIII ARP Takao, and X Shimakaze.
  
• Fixed an erroneous description of the GFCS module on VII Scharnhorst and VII Poltava.
  
• The ship specifications block is no longer displayed in the Port if there are no ships on the account.

The jewel atop the crown of Britain’s undisputed sovereignty over the European seas, forged in an age of rapid evolution for the Royal Navy.

HMS Indomitable, with her armored flight deck, expanded aircraft facilities, and heavy anti-aircraft artillery, strove to be a jack of all trades in the midst of a war that would put every conceivable aspect of naval combat to the test.


In April 1937, the first of four planned Illustrious-class aircraft carriers was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness, England. This first, fully-fledged, class of modern British carriers was meant to serve as the proving ground for a new Royal Navy doctrine that called for maximizing carriers’ fixed defenses, both active and passive. Lacking effective radar, fighter planes couldn’t be expected to scramble in time to intercept an incoming attack in conditions of poor visibility. As a result, the Illustrious-class ships sacrificed plane capacity for an armored “box” that encased their hangars, including 76 mm of plating on the flight deck. This feature was a true rarity for its time, and one that wouldn’t be replicated abroad until 1941 with the Japanese aircraft carrier Taiho.

By November 1937, the fourth and final ship of the Illustrious series—Indomitable—was laid down at the same English shipyard. Due to delays in the delivery of required materials, construction was put on hold and the Admiralty took the opportunity to modify Indomitable’s design. The new requirements called for an increase in airplane capacity from 36 to 48, while keeping her weight in line with her three unmodified sister ships. To achieve this, an additional hangar was added above the originally planned one, and some armor was shaved off the sides and lower decks around the “box,” while the flight deck plating was left untouched.

Indomitable was completed and entered service in 1941, shortly before the Japanese Empire joined the war on the side of the Axis. In January 1942, she was assigned to the Eastern Fleet—based in the Indian Ocean—to curtail the rapid advance of the Japanese Navy in the East Indies. Before leaving the Indian Ocean, Indomitable would provide air support for the invasion of Madagascar.

With the Battle of Midway sending any chances of further carrier threats to the bottom of the sea, Indomitable was freed up to be sent to the Mediterranean in July 1942 to partake in Operation Pedestal—a heavily armed resupply convoy for the crucial island of Malta. Air cover was essential to the mission’s success, so it’s no surprise that Indomitable became the focus of German and Italian bombers from the outset. The ship was hit with two armor-piercing bombs, one of which struck an unarmored section of the flight deck, starting fires below-decks. Nevertheless, Indomitable’s squadrons of Hawker Sea Hurricanes performed well against the bombers, with fighter ace Lt. Richard Cork shooting down five enemy aircraft.

In 1943, Indomitable found herself again in a large-scale operation in the Mediterranean, as the Allies prepared for the invasion of Sicily, providing important air cover for the amphibious assault. Shortly after midnight on July 16, a lone bomber approached Indomitable undetected, dropping a single torpedo which struck the ship under the belt on the port side amidships. The damage was heavy, but quick and effective damage control, as well as counter-flooding, allowed her to sail back to Malta for repairs under her own power.

After undergoing extensive repairs and refitting at Norfolk, she was assigned to the Pacific theatre in 1944, where she would serve out the rest of the war. She survived three kamikaze attacks on May 4, 1945. One of the aggressors hit the deck, but the armor withstood the blow and only a few aircraft and sailors were lost as a result; the second kamikaze attack resulted in the plane bouncing off Indomitable's deck and exploding in the water; and the third attacker was shot out of the sky by the ship’s anti-aircraft batteries.



In terms of her aircraft squadrons, Indomitable flies the twin-engine De Havilland Sea Hornets, first operated by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in 1946.

Aircraft: De Havilland Sea Hornets in one squadron of four level bombers and one squadron of six attack aircraft.

These twin-engine, multi-role planes were developed as land-based fighter/bombers in the twilight years of the war, but were also adapted for carrier operations with a ‘Sea’ variant, complete with foldable wings to fit in the cramped carrier hangars.

Secondary battery: 16 113 mm/45 Mk II BD dual purpose guns in eight enclosed double turrets, situated on four separate sponsons located on either side of the ship, both fore and aft.

Anti-aircraft armament: 21 twin and 16 single 20 mm Oerlikon machine guns; four double 40 mm Bofors mounts; six quad 40 mm Vickers 2-pounder Mk VII “Pom-poms.”

• Air Supremacy
  
• Improved Engine Boost
  
• Improved Engines
  
• Aircraft Armor
  
• Survivability Expert

• Air Supremacy
  
• Improved Engine Boost
  
• Improved Engines
  
• Aircraft Armor
  
• Survivability Expert
  
• Sight Stabilization
  
• Demolition Expert
  
• Adrenaline Rush

The ship has five slots for upgrades. We consider the following combinations to be most effective:

• Air Groups Modification 1
  
• Aircraft Engines Modification 1
  
• Attack Aircraft Modification 1
  
• Attack Aircraft Modification 2 or Bombers Modification 2
  
• Flight Control Modification 1

Like all other carriers, VIII Indomitable has the standard Damage Control Party I and Fighter I on auto-activation. Her planes—both the rocket and bomb-equipped varieties—come with two charges of Engine Cooling I to speed up your squadrons’ movement, and four charges of Patrol Fighters I to deploy strategically on the map.







One of the first aircraft carriers with an armored flight deck in naval history. The ship's game version carries two types of aircraft on her deck: twelve attack aircraft and eight bombers, making it two full squadrons of each. Thanks to this, you can launch a full squadron even if the previous one of the same type hasn't returned from an attack yet, or went down during their assault. All aircraft aboard Indomitable have a high cruising speed for this Tier, allowing you to quickly reach any part of the battlefield and carry out vicious attacks against enemy ships.

• Attack aircraft: six aircraft in a squadron, with two planes on an attack run. Each aircraft carries eight rockets. Maximum rocket damage—2,100 HP; armor penetration—27 mm; chances of setting a target on fire—9%. Cruising speed—188 knots.
  
• Bombers: four aircraft in a squadron, with two planes on an attack run. Each bomber can drop six HE bombs. Maximum bomb damage—4,700 HP; armor penetration—32 mm; chances of setting a target on fire—27%. Cruising speed—182 knots.
  
• Extra credits per battle and 50% more XP provided by the permanent camouflage.

For a detailed look at the ship's technical specifications, follow this link.

• VIII Indomitable 
  
• Commander with 10 skill points
  
• 6,000,000
  
• 110×New Year Streamer camo
  
• 110×Equal Speed Charlie London
  
• 110×India Bravo Terrathree
  
• 110×Zulu
  
• 110×Zulu Hotel
  
• 110×Papa Papa
  
• Combat mission: x3 XP for 25 battles
  
• Unique flag
  
• Port slot

Captains!

Another year has come and gone, and the World of Warships fleet has swelled and is sailing strong! As we do every December, we’d like to take a moment to wish you—our players—a happy holiday season in the company of your loved ones, and to thank you for the countless action-packed battles we’ve fought together throughout the outgoing year. Without you to command history’s mightiest warships, our game would merely be a calm sea dotted with tranquil islands!

2019 saw us take to the skies from British aircraft carriers, set new water speed records aboard French destroyers, fight off fuel-hungry bandits in the grim world of the Post Apocalypse, and welcome a new nation—Europe—to the Tech Tree, amongst other things! We hope that you’ve enjoyed every moment of it as we have, and hope to meet you again in 2020, either on—or beneath—the high seas!


The year 2019 is coming to an end—it's time to sum it up and recollect what happened in World of Warships. New game modes, ship branches, the official announcement of submarines, and much more. Let's remember the brightest moments in a new video!

Make some waves, Captains!

The World of Warships team