Luck or Clean Living / Tsurugi in the Front Door

[Pugilistic]

Looked through things on patch day and lo and behold, Tsurugi was the first bundle. The second time this has happened to me with random bundles. 

Also sank a Bungo with the new 4501 lol. Chat hilarity. 

[Asym]

KARMA STRIKES AGAIN@!    The Schwartz is strong in you !

[Wolfswetpaws]

46 minutes ago, Pugilistic said:

Looked through things on patch day and lo and behold, Tsurugi was the first bundle.

Congratulations.  🙂 

[Ensign Cthulhu]

1 hour ago, Asym said:

The Schwartz is strong in you !

His first-bundle Schwartz is clearly bigger than mine.

[Type_93]

6 hours ago, Asym said:

KARMA STRIKES AGAIN@!    The Schwartz is strong in you !

[That WoT Player]

So what is Tsurugi? Another 18 inch tier 9? Poor man’s Mushi? 

[Wolfswetpaws]

1 hour ago, That WoT Player said:

So what is Tsurugi? Another 18 inch tier 9? Poor man’s Mushi? 

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Tsurugi

[Mono_De_Mantequilla]

8 hours ago, Pugilistic said:

Also sank a Bungo with the new 4501 lol. Chat hilarity. 

 

 

Was he even maneuvering, or just Bungo Strait?

[MidnightPhoenix07]

1 hour ago, That WoT Player said:

So what is Tsurugi? Another 18 inch tier 9? Poor man’s Mushi? 

A very squishy 457 mm BB with torps and occasional AP pen issues. Stealthy, pretty fast, and good accuracy, though.

And I mean very squishy. BB looks at you? You lose health. A bunch of heavy cruisers can even cit you at mid to close range. Found that out the painful way when I ran into a surprise DM my first game in Tsurugi. 

[Yedwy]

Interesting… Well to me it aint… I go comfort myself in my Musashi

[Pugilistic]

14 hours ago, MidnightPhoenix07 said:

A very squishy 457 mm BB with torps and occasional AP pen issues. Stealthy, pretty fast, and good accuracy, though.

And I mean very squishy. BB looks at you? You lose health. A bunch of heavy cruisers can even cit you at mid to close range. Found that out the painful way when I ran into a surprise DM my first game in Tsurugi. 

Oh, yes. Squishy gives it too much credit for resilience, its brittle lol. Indeed, 203's can cit it, and during the first game out an Agir clipped me for about 30K from medium range while I thought I was in an attitude that I will henceforth refer to as "angled". 

Edited October 12, 2023 by Pugilistic

[Pugilistic]

5 hours ago, Yedwy said:

Interesting… Well to me it aint… I go comfort myself in my Musashi

Musashi should not be allowed in games that dont have CVs lol. 

[Pugilistic]

15 hours ago, Mono_De_Mantequilla said:

 

Was he even maneuvering, or just Bungo Strait?

You called it, but it was a point blank shotgun anyway. 

[Verblonde]

20 hours ago, That WoT Player said:

So what is Tsurugi? Another 18 inch tier 9? Poor man’s Mushi? 

I think she's perhaps a bit more interesting than being merely an alternative to Mushi. I'm wondering if she's been put together with at least part of an eye to PvE (basically Coop): she's pretty fast (I was getting 35 kt in a straight line earlier), and has the TRB-equipped torps (BBs and CVs only). Reasonable reload on the main guns too...

The dragon cammo is pretty cool too (if you like that sort of thing); another hard carry by the art department, although I *think* they may have got the number of toes wrong:

From what I read, Japanese dragons are supposed to have three toes?

Feets aside, she looks pretty spectacular - I may well get horribly sunk, but I'll look damn fine doing it!