It isn’t usually I get the choice to area Australian forces in a wargame—aside from Emu Warfare! I suppose—however the brand new Commonwealth tech tree in World of Warships provides Australian ships just like the Cerberus alongside cruisers from varied Commonwealth nations, together with the New Zealand cruiser Auckland and India’s Delhi.
The Commonwealth tech tree is a part of March’s 13.2 replace, which additionally brings a Commonwealth Staff Occasion Go with a bunch of rewards to unlock, together with camouflages and historic commanders Harold Farncomb and Leonard Murray. It is the primary Occasion Go to exchange day by day missions with weekly ones.
Subsequent month, World of Warships is getting a Piñata Hunt occasion to tie in with April Idiot’s Day, which is able to see two groups of seven ships compete to sink a particular piñata ship—presumably with torpedoes and turrets fairly than baseball bats. Piñata Hunt will happen on a dressed-up model of the Hotspot map, and gamers can win piñata tokens to change for camouflages and a commemorative flag.
To rejoice the Commonwealth additions, World of Warships dedicated to a donation of $AU10,000 to the Australian Nationwide Maritime Museum. The museum’s deputy director, Michael Baldwin, stated, “We thank Wargaming for its beneficiant assist. We have now, over the previous few years, loved our involvement with the World of Warships recreation by collaborating in stay, on-line occasions that carry museum analysis and objects to new, worldwide museum audiences, similar to through the Longest Night time of Museums. Gaming gives new methods of wanting into our maritime heritage and gives new avenues for storytelling.”