So, I finally unlocked West Virginia ‘44 in the accursed random bundles, and while admiring another fine addition to my collection in port, I came across a unique oddity: one of the very few experimental Oerlikon Mk. 15 quad mounts, originally designed for PT Boats but was also fitted experimentally to West Virginia and some other American BBs. It’s located on the starboard side of the forward superstructure, and interestingly there’s just a twin-mount oerlikon in the same spot on the opposite side. 

As far as I’m aware, this is *the* only representation of this prototype AA weapon in game, and I’m surprised we’re even seeing this one. Everyone knows about the ubiquitous single and twin-mounts smattered across almost every American ship, but the quad mount is a rare and oft-forgotten iteration. Only Arkansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, Washington, Massachusetts, and some PT boats in the Mediterranean received these prototype quad mounts during WWII. Though, our Arkansas and Wyoming are both in their WWI configuration, Massachusetts and Colorado just don’t have it in-game, and we don’t even *have* Maryland or Washington (very unfortunately) nor PT Boats, so West Virginia 44 is the only ship that has one.

Just an interesting little tidbit that I noticed upon getting the ship after a sickening amount of bundles (honestly only like 30 but still those random bundles are horrendous and I can’t believe I kept trying even that long), and I’m really pleased to see that some developers at Wargaming truly did their research and included this here. Has anyone else noticed this on their chunky new West Virginia? 

Has anyone else noticed this awesome little historical detail?