


In contrast, there are a finite number of ships, especially the notable ones. There's hardly a shortage of material to work with. Thousands of tanks and planes were produced with many little variations in a specific model, plus thousands more paper designs and prototypes. It also hints at something I've been worried about for a long time, that I think Wolcett might share: ships are not tanks and planes. Real battleships, especially as battleships are already rather venerated, are more problematic. Hardly anyone cares for Flint and Black locked behind Ranked because, let's be honest, hardly anyone cares about those historical ships beyond maybe a snicker at Black's hull number. I've italicized notable twice because I think that's the difference. (Two if you include that SoDak will almost definitely be the Tier 8 in a future US BB line split.)Įxcept the historical record bears out what happens when a notable ship is blocked out from the general population. No big deal, then, right? Supertesters would get the Alabama and the rest of us would get a different SoDak anyways. We were told, while the pyre was going up in flames, that Massachusetts would be coming as the generally-purchaseable SoDak. If I'm reading correctly, Wolcott doesn't want real, notable ships locked behind something other than a paywall, because it blocks those who just want the historical ship they've read about / visited the museum / et cetera and can't, for whatever reason, surmount that wall from getting it. Technically correct, but I think missing the point.

Difference is this one would be the sister ship of a ship already in a tech tree, not some unique ship that people cant access any other way.
