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Captains!

New combat missions are available in Update 0.9.12! Numerous rewards await you, including VII Strasbourg, Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, and other valuable items.

Happy New Year!


[h2]New Year Gifts[/h2]
[h2]Snowflakes[/h2]
Following the good old tradition, ships of Tier V and above feature Snowflakes with holiday bonuses. In Updates 0.9.12 and 0.10.0, the first victory or earning 300 XP with a ship will yield you the respective rewards:

• Tier V–VII ships: 400–750 Coal
  
• Tier VIII–IX ships: 75 Steel
  
• Tier X ship: Santa's Gift container

[h2]New Year Supplies[/h2] The bundles are available until: Mon. 11 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)

Free daily bundles await you in the Armory. Within these bundles, you can find Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, festive camouflages (Frosty Fir Tree, Winter Strands, New Year Streamer, Type 3 — New Year, and New Year expendable camouflage), Coal, doubloons, and 1 day of Premium Account!

A total of 12 bundles will be available for a period of 20 days.

[h2]Dockyard[/h2]
In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese Tier IX battleship, IX Hizen, at the Dockyard. By completing the Dockyard combat missions, you can complete 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases. Completing each phase will bring you valuable rewards, including destroyer II Tachibana and cruiser V Yahagi for the fifth and 15th phases respectively. Both ships come with the Winter permanent camouflages and Commanders with 6 skill points for these ships.

Completing the 20th shipbuilding phase will reward you with the New Year permanent camouflage that can be mounted on most of Tier IX ships. Among the other rewards, you'll find Santa's containers:

• Santa's Gift for the third phase
  
• Santa's Big Gift for the 10th and 22nd phases
  
• Santa's Mega Gift the 24th phase

You can also complete shipbuilding phases by spending doubloons. When you finish construction, you'll obtain IX Hizen with the War Paint permanent camouflage, a Port slot, 10-skill-point Commander, and commemorative flag.

If you complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, make sure to keep progressing through the Dockyard combat missions anyway—completing each phase will bring you 400 Research Points and 200 Steel. In total, you can earn up to 8,800 Research Points and 4,400 Steel.

[h2]Campaigns and Strasbourg[/h2]
Take part in two new temporary campaigns during Update 0.9.12. The first mission of the "In Pursuit of Strasbourg" campaign is already available, and subsequent missions will be unlocked every week. Missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign are already available for completion, but you need VII Strasbourg to complete them.

For completing the first three missions of the "In Pursuit of Strasbourg" campaign, you'll receive 6-skill-point Commanders. As a reward for completing the fourth, final mission, you'll obtain VII Strasbourg, which is required to complete missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign, along with a Port slot and Winter Holiday camouflage.

Completing six missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign will reward you with ships adorned in their permanent camouflages, 6-skill-point Commanders, and Santa's Gift containers.

[h2]Ranked Battles[/h2]
To complete a special combat mission, earn 500 base XP in a single Ranked Battle. As a reward, you'll get two special signals. One combat mission can be completed during each of the six sprints in this season.

[h2]Happy Shipmas![/h2] Starts: Tue. 22 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Ends: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

[h3]Discounts and Bonuses[/h3]

• +100% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• −50% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier IV American and British aircraft carriers
• −30% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VI American and British aircraft carriers
• −15% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X American and British aircraft carriers
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of demounting upgrades
  
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of training new Commanders
  
• −50% to the cost in doubloons of retraining a Commander

[h3]Type 59[/h3]

• −3% to your ship's detectability range by sea
  
• +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by enemies at your ship
  
• +200% XP per battle

[h3]Winter Strands[/h3]

• −3% to your ship's detectability range by sea
  
• +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by enemies at your ship
  
• +30% credits per battle
  
• +100% XP per battle
  
• +100% Free XP per battle

[h2]New Year—New Challenges[/h2]
Happy holidays! Onwards to new victories!
Starts: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Ends: Sat. 02 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

[h3]Discounts and Bonuses[/h3]

• +200% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• You can convert Elite Commander XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• You can convert XP from ships at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of economic signals in the game client
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of Port slots

Win a battle in Ranked, Random, or Co-op Battles, or in Operations to get 3x Wargaming containers, with each holding 1 day of Premium Account, 3x Papa Papa signals, and 3x Juliet Charlie signals.

[h2]Daily Missions[/h2]
One chain will become available to you each day. Progressing through each chain will reward you with XP, signals, credits, Coal, and even Steel!

[h3]Rewards[/h3]
Want even more bonuses? Complete Daily Missions and the following rewards will be yours:

[h3]Research Bureau[/h3]
Players with access to the Research Bureau will be able to earn even more Research Points by completing Daily Missions—400 Research Points for completing 25, 50, and 75 combat missions.

• Each day, you can complete a chain of six missions.
  
• You must earn a certain amount of base XP to complete a mission of the chain.
  
• You must earn 250 base XP in a single battle in order to accomplish the first mission.
  
• The second mission requires you to earn 500 base XP across several battles.
  
• For missions 3, 4, 5, and 6: you need to earn 1,000; 1,100; 1,200; and 1,300 base XP in victorious battles, respectively.
  
• All missions within a chain must be completed in successive order, playing Tier V–X ships in Random, Co-op, or Ranked Battles, or in Operations.
  
• You'll receive any due rewards in your Port once you've completed the conditions of the missions.
  
• After completing the entire chain, you'll obtain the final reward.

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Each month our subscribers will get some goodies, and they might be different each time! We’re going to send out a Steam container today(for those already subscribed) and at the end of the month too, which contains:

1. In the first slot:
   
   • 5x Steam camouflage patterns:
     
     • +75% ship XP per battle
       
     • +75% Commander XP per battle
       
     • +75% Free XP per battle
       
     • –3% to the ship's detectability range by sea
       
     • +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by the enemy at your ship
   • or 10,000 Free XP
     
   • or 1 day of Warships Premium Account
     
   • or 250 doubloons
2. In the second slot: 5x signal flags (Zulu, Zulu Hotel, or Papa Papa)
   
3. In the third slot: 5x signal flags (Juliet Charlie or November Foxtrot)

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[h3]Captains![/h3]
Update 0.9.12 brings an ice-cool close to 2020 thanks to its one-of-a-kind Epic Drop: if you missed the chance to get Duke of York with her Arctic permanent camouflage during the last Update, you can now land her historical rival VII Scharnhorst with her own rare Arctic permanent camouflage! Even if you don't land the grand prize, you can still come away with some unique and colorful camos and signal flags!


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The Twitch Drops campaign for 0.9.12 ends: Fri. 15 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

[h2]Twitch Rewards[/h2]
[h3]Twitch Epic Drops[/h3]


Rare—a chance to win a Premium ship, delivered straight to your Port when watching streams. Can be obtained only once per viewer. This month, not only will you get VII Scharnhorst, you'll also get the rare and icy Arctic permanent camouflage for her!

[h3]Twitch Challenges[/h3]
When watching streams during Update 0.9.12, combat missions will be unlocked directly in your Port. Each Thursday of the Update, a new mission will become available.

Starts: Thu. 24 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Ends: Thu. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

Starts: Thu. 31 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Ends: Thu. 14 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

Starts: Thu. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Ends: Thu. 21 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

[h3]Twitch Drops[/h3]
A special Twitch container delivered straight to your Port when watching streams⁠—no strings attached! You can receive up to five of these during Update 0.9.12. Contains:

• 100,000 credits
• Assorted signal flags

[h2]Where and How[/h2]
Twitch Drops can be earned by watching the Official World of Warships channel's livestreams, or those of any other Twitch streamer who is playing World of Warships with Drops enabled. Take care to ensure that your Twitch account is linked to your Wargaming Account, else it won't work!

Find out how exactly to link your account via the link below:

Instructions

Official Stream Schedule

In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese battleship, Hizen. IX Hizen is a variant of a superbattleship project that preceded the development of the Yamato-class ships. The ship is armed with twelve 410 mm guns placed in four turrets. Having such an atypical number of guns for a high-tier Japanese battleship allows her to deal impressive damage per salvo.

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[h2]Rules of the Event[/h2]

• The construction process at the Dockyard comprises 26 phases.
  
• These shipbuilding phases can be completed by progressing through the Dockyard combat missions, or by spending 1,950 doubloons to complete each phase.
  
• If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs: ten shipbuilding stages in exchange for 9,950 doubloons and four shipbuilding stages in exchange for 5,000 doubloons.
  
• The Dockyard combat missions span two updates—0.9.12 and 0.10.0. After that, you can still complete phases by spending doubloons until the end of Update 0.10.1.
  
• In total, you can pass through 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases by progressing through Dockyard combat missions.
  
• You'll receive II Tachibana and V Yahagi in the Winter permanent camouflage, 6-skill-point Commanders, and Port slots as rewards for completing the 5th and 15th shipbuilding phases respectively.
  
• Completing the last four phases will reward you with 10,000 Coal; one Santa's Mega Gift container; 2,000 Steel; and IX Hizen in the War Paint camouflage with a Port slot, Commander with 10 skill points, and commemorative flag.

• Completing other phases will bring you Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, the New Year permanent camouflage for Tier IX ships, the new Winter Strands expendable camouflages, and other valuable items.

If you already have II Tachibana in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 1,425,000 credits; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Tachibana, and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you already have V Yahagi in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 4,000 doubloons; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Yahagi; and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, make sure to keep progressing through the Dockyard combat missions anyway—completing each phase will bring you 400 Research Points and 200 Steel.


[h2]Combat Missions[/h2]
The new game event tasks you with completing 56 combat missions spread across seven groups. The first group will become available with the release of Update 0.9.12, while those that follow will be unlocked on a weekly basis.
Completing each group, except for the last one, will progress you through three shipbuilding phases:

• Two shipbuilding phases are completed by accomplishing specific missions in a group.
  
• One shipbuilding phase can be completed by finishing the entire group.

Completing the last group will progress you through four shipbuilding phases— two for specific missions and two more for finishing the group.

The Dockyard combat missions will remain available until the release of Update 0.10.1. Detailed information about the mission completion criteria can be found in the game client.

[h2]Rewards[/h2]
By progressing through the Dockyard combat mission groups, you can complete 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases and obtain the corresponding rewards at the Dockyard.
By finishing the first two combat mission groups, you can complete up to six shipbuilding phases and obtain the following rewards:

• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 1 day of Warships Premium Account
• 10x Winter Strands camouflages

Finishing five out of seven combat mission groups will allow you to complete up to 15 shipbuilding phases and obtain:

• V Yahagi with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 1x Santa's Big Gift container
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 40x special signals
  
• 10,000 Free XP
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account
• 15x Winter Strands camouflages

By finishing all the combat mission groups, you'll complete 22 shipbuilding phases and obtain:

• V Yahagi with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 2x Santa's Big Gift containers
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 1x New Year permanent camouflage for Tier IX ships
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 80x special signals
  
• 10,000 Free XP
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account
• 25x Winter Strands camouflages

In order to complete the shipbuilding process entirely, in addition to progressing through all the combat mission groups, you'll need to spend doubloons to progress through any four shipbuilding phases.

• The reward for completing the 23rd shipbuilding phase is 10,000 Coal.
  
• The 24th phase brings you a Santa's Mega Gift container.
  
• The 25th phase—2,000 Steel.
  
• By completing the 26th shipbuilding phase, you'll earn IX Hizen in the War Paint camouflage, together with a Port slot, Commander with 10 skill points, and commemorative flag.

If you decide to complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, you can still continue progressing through the Dockyard combat missions. Instead of construction progression, you'll get 400 Research Points and 200 Steel for each completed phase.

If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, two Starter Packs are available to purchase:

• Ten shipbuilding phases for 9,950 doubloons
  
• Four shipbuilding phases for 5,000 doubloons

However, these packs will only be available to purchase prior to the point in time when you complete four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions. Once you've purchased both Starter Packs or completed four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions, you'll be able to purchase further phases individually for 1,950 doubloons each.