German Battleships: Early Access

German Tier III–X battleships have arrived in the Early Access. We're going to tell you everything you need to know to get started with these ships, and most importantly—we're going to reveal how you can get your hands on them.


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German Battleships: Part 1[/h2]
What are the features of the new branch?

• While they don't have so many main battery guns, and those guns have a rather short range for this ship type, these battleships come out on top against their peers when it comes to accuracy. The shots you do fire will fly true and hit hard.
  
• Tier VII ships and higher are armed with long-range torpedoes.
  
• Numerous accurate secondary battery guns.
  
• Low detectability.
  
• Starting from Tier VI—a variant of the Hydroacoustic Search consumable that's similar to the type that German cruisers are equipped with.
  
• A variant of the Fast Damage Control Team consumable that differs from the standard Damage Control Party by having a reduced cooldown time and limited number of charges.

[h2]Things to Know About Early Access[/h2]
German Tokens are a new temporary resource that you can obtain by participating in our new Personal Challenges temporary event, from free daily bundles, and from bundles available in exchange for Doubloons and Community Tokens in the Armory.

Rewards for German Tokens: sequentially available bundles with new German Tier III–IX battleships; the German Eagle permanent camouflage for IX Prinz Rupprecht and X Schlieffen; the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich and VIII Zieten; the "German Battleships: Part 1" commemorative flag; and other items.

Early Access to X Schlieffen, together with a Port slot and 10-skill point Commander, will be one of the lots at the upcoming Lighthouse auction. The starting bid is 1,000 Doubloons; in total, 1,000 lots will be auctioned.

The Lighthouse auction will be held from October 7 through 11. You'll find details about the auction's rules, the lots, their quantity, and the starting bids in a dedicated article that's scheduled to be published on our website later this week.

The Hamburg Port has been updated to celebrate the arrival of the German battleships in Early Access.

When Update 0.10.11 goes live, the German battleships will become available for all players to research

We come bearing gifts! Stay on the lookout for Community Tokens in this and other articles on our website! You can use these to obtain various items from the Armory. Make sure to keep up to date with the news, and be sure to share the articles with your friends so they can also enjoy claiming gifts!

You can claim your gift before: Tue. 26 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Watch our official streams and participate in the Public Test and other activities to earn Community Tokens. In total, you'll be able to find up to 1,510 Community Tokens on our website before the end of Update 0.10.9.

[h2]German Tokens[/h2]
German Tokens can be obtained:

• By participating in Personal Challenges—up to 2,550 Tokens.
  
• From free random bundles in the Armory—up to 100 Tokens.
  
• In exchange for Community Tokens in the Armory—up to 600 Tokens.
  
• From random bundles available in exchange for Doubloons in the Armory—up to 6,000 Tokens.

Tokens that you can earn by participating in Personal Challenges will be enough to obtain German Tier III–VII battleships and the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich.

With the release of Update 0.10.11, German Tokens will be converted into Credits at the rate of 1:4,500.

[h2]Rewards for Tokens[/h2]
You can exchange German Tokens for sequentially available bundles and other rewards in the Armory.

[h2]Sequentially Available Bundles[/h2]

The ships come with all of their modules researched.

If you already have IV Moltke in your Port, you will receive 1,300,000 Credits as compensation, as well as a Port slot and Commander with 3 skill points.

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Free Bundles[/h2]
The Armory will offer free random bundles—Ocean Raiders Trophies. Within them, you'll find German Tokens, Doubloons, 1 day of Premium Account, and other rewards.
The bundles will be available until: Thu. 11 Nov. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

You can obtain only one bundle per day. A total of 15 bundles will be available, so you can skip more than 2 weeks and still be able to collect all the rewards.

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Bundles for Doubloons[/h2] The bundles will be available until: Thu. 09 Dec. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The German Battleships section of the Armory will feature special bundles, such as "In the Shipyards of Lower Saxony," "From the Docks of Schleswig-Holstein," "In the Ports of East Prussia," and "On the Stocks of Pomerania." Each bundle costs 500 Doubloons. Within them, you can find German Tokens, "Black-White-Red" expendable camouflages, and special signals.

Moreover, the Armory will offer you Support for Battle Fleet daily random bundles at the cost of 150 Doubloons each. They can drop days of Warships Premium Account, expendable camouflages, Coal, Free XP, and combat signals.
The bundles will be available until: Thu. 11 Nov. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

You can purchase only one bundle per day.