So I was watching Historigraph- as you do- when I stumbled across a video about USS *England*, whose claim to fame was sinking 6 subs in 12 days. 

I thought, "Wow, that would be cool to add to WoWs..."

So here's how I'd do it:

VIII *England* 

**Main guns:**

3x 76mm/50 caliber guns

Yes, they are really small. But we have 76mm guns in game, so they're not COMPLETELY out of the question (yes, I know they're at Tier 2, but we're ignoring that because this is a *HYPOTHETICAL*, DYLAN!). That means they'd have an HE pen of 12mm, which is pathetic. Giving her German quarter-caliber pen, that jumps to 19 mm. Which would pen a few lower tier destroyer superstructures but not much else. So we would have to raise it even more, without making her too overpowered.

  
And we already have a pretty good example in how to do that- *Alberico de Barbiano*.

If you didn't know (because the ship isn't played very often), *Barbiano*'s funny button gives her 90mm guns 32mm of pen, in exchange for worse reload.  When not active, her guns fire MUCH faster but only have 26mm of pen. 

For *England*, we could incorporate a mechanic like that, along with a small buff to base pen, so that it would trade DPM (which I'll get to in a second) for pen, or spew shells, banking on fires (which would have slightly improved fire stats compared to similar caliber shells). Alternatively, we could just give it 1/3 caliber pen. 

As far as DPM, I would like to think she would have a relatively short reload to compensate for the small guns and few barrels. Maybe something like 2.5 seconds base? And 3.5-4 seconds with F key if we went that route? And of course, pretty good accuracy too. only a little worse than Tiger '59 (so she can reliably hit what armor she CAN pen). 

**Torpedoes:**

3x1 533mm tubes

Yeah, that's not a lot of torpedoes. But I figure we can redress this by simply giving her decent damage torpedoes coupled with a really quick reload time- maybe \`50 seconds? Alternatively, a normal reload time but with a TRB. But I am hesitant to do that since I don't want too many gimmicks, since one is basically already needed for the guns.

**Anti-Aircraft Armament**

  
1x1 28mm Quad

8x1 20mm

  
Not counting the main guns, which I can only assume were also dual-purpose. Not like AA matters, so I'll just ignore this section otherwise. Maybe we can add DFAA for shits and giggles.

  
**Anti-Submarine Warfare**

1x1 Hedgehog ASW array

8x1 K-Gun depth charge projectors

2x depth charge racks

Yeah, that's why I thought we could add her. As an ASW DD.  And she'd be really good at it, soo- I would make her gimmick the ability to choose whether to launch her Hedgehogs (forward) or use her other ASW (aft) to better target subs. They would have improved damage, too.

  
**Survivability/Concealment**

14,100 HP

5.6 Km conceal (with build)

**Consumables**

Slot 1 (R)- Damage Control Party (Same characteristics as other American DD DCPs)

Slot 2 (T)- Repair Party (Same parameters as *Kidd*)

Slot 3 (Y)- Short-Burst Smoke Generator (6 base charges, same parameters as *Lightning)*

Slot 4 (U)- Submarine Surveillance (Toggleable, 50 seconds total time, minimum 5 seconds action time)

Yeah, I didn't do EVERYTHING, like maneuverability or whatnot but this is just a general idea. So, do you think this could work in game? Would you like to see her in game? Would she be balanced?



USS England- what do we think?