Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "MN Edgar Quinet - Guide 349" video.

  1. If Wargaming still had any interest in low-tier ships, it'd be quite easy to add Desaix (of the Dupleix-class small armored cruisers, armed with 4x2 164.7mm guns ) at Tier 2 and Edgar Quinet at Tier 4. Since they have uniform main batteries and thus wouldn't need any special mechanics to be viable. Similarly, Scharnhorst '06 and Blücher strike me as workable Tier 4 and Tier 5 cruisers. Preferably as part of a tech tree "large cruiser" line for the German tech tree that would include Deutschland at Tier 6, D-class at Tier 7, the late 3-turret D-class (immediately before their full redesign into the Scharnhorst-class battleships) at Tier 8, and an O-class variant at Tier 9. At Tier 10, there's a fairly obscure paper ship called KW45 that would work. (The Russian-language version of Wargaming's wiki used to have a lot of pages hidden on it with all sorts of information about both real and paper ships. They were all deleted last year, presumably a result of WG cutting its ties with the Russian studio, but most of it's still archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210714163133/https://wiki.wargaming.net/ru/Navy:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82_%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0_%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8B_Kriegsmarinewerft_1939_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0 ) And honestly I think the British 9.2-inch gun is strong enough that ships like Georgios Averof and Minotaur '06 could work as Tier 5 cruisers even with only 4 guns, so long as the secondary batteries got gimmicked out with good range and accuracy and SAP shells. Or better yet if WG was willing to make the 190mm guns also player controlled, so you could just switch to the secondaries during the main gun reload. But that's more effort than they're likely to be willing to put forth for something that would only be applicable for low-tier ships.
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