No Dry Dock for You!

The HMS Campbeltown hit the Premium store this week and, being a sucker for cheap, low tier premium ships, I naturally bought her. For the uninitiated, the Campbeltown was formerly a US Wickes class Destroyer that was famously used to sabotage the dry dock for the Tirpitz, essentially removing the Battleship from the theatre of World War II. It's a story that's been well covered so I'm not going to go over it again, but there are documentaries you can find easily enough for the full story. It's pretty epic.

In the World of Warships it fills the Tier III bracket and is an almost dedicated torpedo destroyer. The standout features of this tug are the 7.5km range of its torpedoes and it's 6.5km concealment range allowing the cunning Captain the ability to surprise butt secks his victims. The guns are awful, there's only three of them and you can only use two at once so they're almost redundant, but it can make for some pretty funny gun battles with other Campbeltowns. The torpedo armament is an interesting one, with a triple launcher mounted on each side of the vessel, much like you see in low tier US Destroyers. On the flip side, it's quite agile and you can almost fire them forward, so it's not impossible to get six torpedoes into a fat, slow target, it just requires a little practice and daring.

I've had some early success with it, you quickly forget how fond low tier Battleship Captains are of not using their rudders, and I think it's right up there for fun factor as the Russian Derzki. Nothing tops the Derzki for doing stupid shit like this though...

So is it worth it? Well, it was eleven bucks, so yeah, I'll say it is. I've spent more than that on a sandwich before. If nothing else it gives me a chance to put some Command Points into a Royal Navy Destroyer Captain which will, if the rumours are true, pay dividends later this year as the Royal Navy ship tree hits World of Warships. As long as it keeps returning lol moments like the one below, it's making a return on the investment that I'm pretty comfortable with.