#eagle union

[justiceb68]

い～どぅ～

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[arachnestwilight]

Ahoy,

As I have now officially been playing Azur Lane for 3 years now, may I request a sketch of my favorite shipgirl Sims? don't worry and take your time, but this would bean a lot to me, thank you

-Marvin

Gacha is a prison, I hope you can escape soon /j.

Here's your shipgirl! :V

[cursedalthoughts]

NEW LADIES COMING SOON

AMERICAN

i LOVE this design language new Eagle Union girlies are going with. the old stuff was good too but this is more sci-fi, which makes sense for the faction

also, San Jacinto is an Independence-class (CVL-30) and Constellation is the original building plan for USS Saratoga and USS Lexington, before they were turned into CVs (a battlecruiser. yes, an american battlecruiser. FINALLY)

USS Constellation as portrayed in World of Warships

[jedirhydon]

Yorktown-class Aircraft Carrier, USS Enterprise CV-6, of the Eagle Union faction of Azur Lane. Sister Ship-girl of USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Hornet (CV-8); Half-Sister Ship-girl of USS Wasp (CV-7).

[smokeybrandreviews]

Mirror Match

Didn’t expect to be making an Azur Lane update so soon after the last but here we are. I was just gushing about how much i enjoyed the last event and kind of lamented that we  were going back to Reruns again but, to my surprise. this Rerun was a substantial one. We got a Mirror Involution Lite Rerun and i am here for all of that. Listen, i passed hard on the first tun of this Event because i didn’t care. I didn’t think i needed the Ultra Rare ship available because, you know, Iron Blood main. I was wrong. New Jersey turned out to be one of, if not, the best ship in the goddamn game! I think only Musashi can give her a proper run for her money. At the very least, she tiptop tier, sitting alongside Fried, Ulrich, Zwei, and Vanguard Suffice it to say, i made a hard run at this Lite banner!

Surprisingly, it didn’t take a whole lot o cash out a Jersey. I pulled her on my sixtieth roll. Only cost me one hundred and twenty cubes. That’s a little high, about forty rolls over average, but it’s a far cry from the money pit that was f*cking Zwei. Look, i love my darling Bismarck Zwei. She’s a goddamn powerhouse but f*ck, did she tax my pockets! The cost of New Jersey, by contrast, seems positively reasonable. It’s kind of a bonus, too, that i was able to cop every other available ship on the banner, plus Ticonderoga, in the process of chasing Usagi Hime. Like a lot. Like, i got enough dupes of San Francisco, Ticonderoga, and Boise, to fully Limit Break all of them. Weirdly enough, i didn’t pull a single Archerfish, which is f*cking stupid, but whatever. I already have every other top sub in the game, the KMS few completely maxed out so it’s whatever. It just chaffs the completionist in me is all.

I’m only mid-way through the process of properly leveling New Jersey but i am absolutely in love with this boat. I didn’t realize how much goddamn fun she was to play with and understand why she’s so coveted. I’m picking myself in the ass knowing i could have had this absolute monster in my Fleet for the past two years. Should have actually paid more attention back then but, hindsight is twenty-twenty. All in all, I'm pretty pleased with this Rerun. Not only Jew Jersey and San Francisco, but that ever illusive Triple 406mm. I love a solid Rainbow weapon and his is supposed to e one of the best. I cannot wait o add this thing to Jersey. I’ve still got a ways to go for it. On that Morrison grind right now so it’s only a matter of time before i unlock both her and enough Involuted Seals. Honestly, i already got enough of those things to unlock Morrison, a few of them, actually, but I'm short around three hundred to purchase hat gun. Seriously, everything i want in this game and i can’t pop an Archerfish to save my goddamn life. The f*ck?

[teethelion]

It has been many months since I've last made a minimalist wallpaper and posted anything on this Tumblr. The reason is that I have been so busy with college and dealing with other priorities in life. But I have made and finished this minimalist wallpaper of Baltimore within the day of this post going up. Unlike many of the minimalist wallpapers I've done, this is made on request by a follower of mine on Instagram. It wasn't easy, and the process wasn't fast, but I persevered and am pleased with the result.

Character: Baltimore (from Azur Lane)

[pokemonwearingsportsmerch]

[imaginal-ai]

"Star-Spangled" (0004)

(More of The Superhero Style Series)

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[jawn-hextall]

Phillies fans! Aramark workers are on strike as of Monday the 23rd.

That means no buying concessions at the sports complex until the strike is over. Get smashed in the parking lot instead for a bit.

[justiceb68]

朝凪シオン

[ashvalentine16]

Cassin and Downes Retrofits

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POV you were Soviet Air Force from the 60s onward:

Meme by u/Temporary_Alfalfa489

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Priority Research 7 Predictions - Eagle Union

I remember a few years ago, when I tried to do predictions for PR3 back on Twitter, I realized the Eagle Union didn't have many choices. Kearsarge wasn't a thing back then, so Seattle, Georgia and Anchorage were pretty much the only real options they had at all.

That has changed a fair bit now, with PR7 right around the corner.

USS Minnesota

Minnesota is not a good battleship.

When talking about big battleships I sometimes mention how they're "big, slow, and slumbering." In most cases, that's an exaggeration on my part. That's not the case with Minnesota.

With a top speed of 23 knots, Minnesota is one of the slowest ships of her tier, if not the slowest. That's not the only slow thing about her, as her main guns - twelve 406mm guns - have a reload of 40 seconds. You can genuinely go AFK and do things in real life while the guns reload.

Her guns, however, are a bit more accurate than average; although that is the only saving grace she has.

If she gets added to Azur Lane as a PR, she'd be of PR rarity.

USS Vermont

Vermont is a T10 copycat of Minnesota. You might think "wow, she's also terrible, right?"

Yes. She's even worse. Same top speed of 23 knots, same 40s reload on her main guns, etc, same weak side armor, same glacial turret traverse of 45s, everything is the same, just bigger.

The only difference is that her main guns are 457mm. "Does that actually matter?"

Oh boy.

Those 457mm main guns are the only thing that moves Vermont from a pretty terrible battleship, to an excellent battleship. Her main offensive tool is patience. Vermont is a persistence hunter. A good Vermont player will choose a good flank to reside in and stalk the enemy. If you're on one end of the map and the enemy Vermont gets lit up by firing her main guns on the other side of the map; only island cover will save you. 15.7k damage per AP shell, 12 AP shells, incredible accuracy; a well placed shot will detonate any enemy with a citadel.

I do not have a Vermont myself, but I have seen the trail of destruction she can leave behind. Full health battleships 25km away exploding without warning, perfectly angled cruisers taking 50k or more damage in one hit, Vermont is one of the scariest battleships to face against if the right conditions are met.

Vermont would make for an excellent DR battleship, a diametric opposite to Kearsarge.

USS Austin

A super-Atlanta, Austin has a potential sistership in the shape of Jinan - more about her here.

Austin is an excellent spammer. Being able to fire HE and SAP, there's very few targets she can't run down. However, her base reload is 7.5s, which is rather atrocious for a main gun spammer.

The saving grace of Austin is that she has access to a unique reload boost. Once activated, her reload drops down to less than 2s for a period of time; the uniqueness of this boost coming from the fact that it is unlimited. Once the reload boost has finished, it enters its cooldown, after which it can be used again without any maximum number of uses.

Austin is also really small - here's a size comparison with other T10 light cruisers made by Ch0m1n.

Austin is a fascinating little ship. Oh, also, she's surprisingly tanky despite being a light cruiser. Definitely DR material.

USS Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is simply a bigger Alaska-class. When designing the first large cruisers of the USN, one of the preliminary designs was CA2-D:

CA2-D had a total of 12 305mm main guns in triple turrets, as well as an overall larger displacement. Puerto Rico could be an interesting half-sister of the Alaska-class, of equal DR rarity.

USS Congress

Congress, much like Puerto Rico, is a discarded Alaska-class design. In particular, she seems to be a variation of the 12-Inch Gun Cruiser Study, CA2F:

(excuse the different formatting, i've been fighting with tumblr for 40 fucking minutes and i can't seem to replicate what i did above)

Congress, much like Puerto Rico, would be a PR variation of Alaska.

USS Illinois

Illinois is one of the most interesting battleships in the game. She's an Iowa hull, meaning that she shares a lot of similarities with the other 4 Iowa hulls in the game (Iowa, Missouri, Delaware and Wisconsin - Georgia and Rhode Island are a bit different). The thing that makes her unique is that she doesn't have battleship calliber guns. No, she also doesn't have 305mm guns either.

Illinois has 203mm guns. To be specific, she has 3 quadruple 203mm gun turrets that use the same guns and ammo as Des Moines.

Even if Des Moines has considerably better damage per minute and utility (Des Moines has radar and hydroacoustic search, Illinous has neither); Illinois is a battleship hull. She's the tankiest standard heavy cruiser in the game.

I can see her being a PR in Azur Lane, her gimmick being something like being the only battleship in the game that can be placed on the vanguard fleet. Also, she would only be able to equip heavy cruiser main guns. I can see Drake's or Hindenburg's guns being amazing on her already.

USS Rhode Island

Rhode Island is a jack of all trades, master of none.

A small rundown of all the gimmicks Wargaming cramped into this ship:

Quadruple 365mm guns also found on the T7 battleship Florida, which is herself a downgraded version of North Carolina. These guns have amazing HE performance but underwhelming AP damage, due to the fact that she is Tier 10.

Radar. She has radar. That means she joins the already rare club of battleships with radar. To the best of my knowledge there are only 4: Missouri, Constellation, Borodino and lastly Rhode Island.

She has the same secondary gun performance that Georgia enjoys.

She has a speed boost. Just like Georgia.

Honestly, the only two real downsides of Rhode Island are her atrocious armor and her subpar AP performance. However, she has 22 seconds of reload, and her AP can stil wreack cruisers with ease up to certain distances.

If added to AL, she would be a DR due to the sheer amount of gimmicks she has.

USS Ohio

If Vermont's horrendous 40s reload and 23kts speeds personally offend you, Ohio is an alternative worthy of consideration.

Ohio is based on the Montana hull. There is sufficient evidence to believe Montana could be a gacha UR in Azur Lane, however, Ohio is mostly made up by Wargaming.

When designing the Iowa-class, the USN briefly considered equipping them with six 457mm guns instead of nine 406mm guns. That consideration gave birth to Georgia in World of Warships, who has a slightly different hull design than the Iowa-class. Ohio takes Montana's guns and replaces them with Georgia's, giving her eight 457mm guns with Super-Heavy AP shells.

On top of that, Ohio enjoys a much improved secondary gun performance, better than Georgia's and Rhode Island's in many regards; and a full secondary gun build does not sacrifice much of her impresive main gun accuracy.

On top of that, Ohio has the same sort of heal party that Massachussetts has - it lasts for longer than average and has a shorter cooldown, meaning you can repair the ship more often for more health points.

I am tempted to say Ohio is a DR shipgirl, but considering Georgia is PR and New Jersey is UR; I think Ohio could end up being another PR shipgirl, while Montana becomes an UR. However, Montana is extremely far away, while Ohio could come at any moment.