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It started off innocent enough, with a dev strike on a BB. Capped a couple points. Ambushed another Gearing for a quick kill. Then things went south. Started losing teammates. At about 5 min left it was 3 blue vs 4 red and I lost both torpedo batteries and had low health. Soon it became 2 blue vs 4 red and our only hope was for caps and winning on points. I played a little ring-around-the-Rosie with battleships and was able to get two more caps, while also scoring defends, along with my last teammate, on the Reds trying to cap positions. Thankfully time ran out with us up 30 points as they were capping their 3rd base. You can’t feel much more naked than captaining a Destroyer with no torps, little health , and no smoke lol. But it was one of the most satisfying wins I’ve had.

If you’ve never seen “The Last Ship”, it’s a fun show about an Arleigh Burke class-DDG and an apocalyptic plague that wipes out most of Earth’s population. Eric Dane (RIP 😔) is phenomenal as the ship’s Captain. It’s on Netflix if anyone needs a show to checkout

What happened ?????

USS Alabama, USS Massachusetts, and USS Indiana.

Ironically, we don’t have USS South Dakota. And I know there’s Bama B and Massa B, but they’re just copies, so I wasn’t counting them.

Same secondary layout as the Massachusetts and Alabama. Compared to the Massachusetts, Indiana has the same range, a 1.5 second less reload, 200 more max damage per shell, the same fire setting % and the same secondary dispersion. It also has 70k health vs 63,300 and 66,600 for Bama and Massa, respectively. Indiana also has better torpedo reduction % and fire prevention % than the other two. But being in T8 rather than T7, like the other two, obviously it needed a buff.

And now at this point I would like to summon the Brawling Supreme Leader u/AlekTrev006 to provide more insight as to what this actually means.

Just don’t go broadsided to anyone at any distance lol.

Once I get a decent amount of games in it, I’ll post a little review. I’ve actually yet to see one since the update dropped so I’m going in virtually blind.
My build (AL Avora) has Main battery at 4x4 130mm cannons, 18.5km range, 5 sec reload, 2083 max HE shell damage, 9% fire chance and 22mm of HE pen. Torps are 2x5 with 8km range and 60kt speed. 4.5 sec rudder shift and 35kt speed. 11.4km concealment.

This is why I try to avoid running up too close to friendly ships when I have super low health left. Poor bastard caught a shell unintended for him and sunk lol.

Now I know a lot of veterans are aware of these benefits, but wanted to share for some of the newer players or those who just might not be aware.

Not everyone will have the resources to take advantage, but just keep it in the back of your head.

And now to the main part. We all know Universal Commendations(UC) are tough to come by. However, there are a couple ways to earn them if you have a commander maxed out to lvl 16, Legendary 4. The most simple way is to go to the “commanders” tab in the Shop and purchase the commander you have fully maxed for 900k Commander XP. This will grant you 1 UC. But be conscious of how much Commander XP you have. If you go to rank up another commander, but don’t have enough Commander XP, it will use your free Green XP after you have depleted your Commander XP stash.

The other way to do it is through commander crates. If you pull a commander out of a crate who is fully maxed you will be granted 1 UC. If they are not maxed you will get a regular Personal Commendation, only usable on that specific commander. The more commanders you have fully maxed, the higher the odds of pulling one that grants a UC.

Each week you typically have the possibility of 5 commander crates available. 2 through missions and a 3 pack available for $10.5 million credits in the store. Disclaimer here, but I am a 7 year player and have an abundance of resources, except for UC’s, which go FAST. So dropping $10 million on commander crates doesn’t really matter much, but I realize that could be cost prohibitive to a lot of people. I also use and have a lot of my historical commanders very highly ranked. So out of the 5 weekly commander crates I opened today, I was able to pull 3 UC and 2 Personal Commendations of commanders I’m actively trying to level up. That was a bit luckier than is typical for me, but I usually manage to pull 1-2 UC out of the 5 commander crates each week, and get other commanders closer to being maxed out as well.

Like I said, I know a lot of people probably can’t take full advantage of this, but I wanted to get the information out there again just so people are more knowledgeable about various game mechanics. Hopefully I am able to provide some good info to people who aren’t aware, and thank you for reading if you have made it this far lol!

Plenty more dodgers if anyone is interested!

My hanger luck recently has been out of this world. A relic, /25 Harper, /2025 gold. Cool Acuña, cool Ohtani. Nice Rushing an Smith

Bought a hanger at Target and had a nice box. /25 orange chrome. A cool Acuña insert. I think the Naylor is an SP? The McKinstry is FS! $35 shipped BMWT! PayPal G&S preferred but Venmo works. Thanks !