USS New Jersey "Big J" - Tier X American Premium Battleship
USS New Jersey "Big J" is the second member of the four-strong Iowa-Class completed by the United States. Commissioned in 1943, she served in the Pacific theatre of the Second World War before being placed in reserve post-war. She was reactivated three times during the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and during the 1980s, before finally leaving service and becoming a museum ship in 2001.
The name "Big J" served as a simple, affectionate moniker used by her crew and naval personnel throughout her service, alongside her other well-known nickname, the "Black Dragon."
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Key Features and Battle Tips
Key Features
Command and conquer! New Jersey fully adopts the support-oriented playstyle, allowing you to strategically buff your allies, or yourself, and get an edge in battle!
- Access to support-oriented consumables
- Combat Instructions charged by using the support consumables
- High speed
- Lower than average HP pool, but with access to Enhanced Repair Party
- Mediocre base firepower
Battle Tips
New Jersey is the last of the Iowa-class ships to enter the game, and she offers a unique playstyle and trade-offs. She keeps nine 406mm guns with standard accuracy, giving up raw firepower for her Tier. Still, in exchange, she gets access to a palette of support consumables, letting you make an indirect impact by buffing your allies when the right moment comes. The support consumables work within a radius around your ship, so you'll need to adopt a position where you can maximize their usage by having the most allies within range, especially on active flanks. For that, you can rely on her high speed.
New Jersey has specific Combat Instructions for new support consumables, that charge as you use those support consumables. You'll build up the progress bar very quickly when you support several allies at once, opening a short window to fire off powerful, accurate salvoes of your own. You can also charge Combat Instructions by using these consumables on yourself, but this will provide a lower charge percentage. As always with support ships, timing is everything. You might hold a consumable back to save an ally with a last-minute heal, or fuel a friendly battleship's push by boosting its secondary firepower. It opens a wide array of possibilities, but it all comes down to your decision-making.
Ship Info
- Ship Name:
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X USS New Jersey
- Tier / Level:
- 10
- Rarity Level:
- soon
- WG Introduction:
- Estimated Release:
- Before Update 15.11
- Nation:
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USA
How to obtain: Details will be shown just before release
Armor
Main Battery Armament
Shell Types
HE Shells
AP Shells
Torpedoes
Depth Charges
Secondaries
Depth Charge Airstrike
Anti Aircraft Armament
Long Range
Mid Range
Short Range
8 x 2 20 mm Oerlikon on a Mk.24 mount:
Concentrated AA Fire
- Activated Effect
- Continuous AA damage increase: 25 %.
- Instantaneous damage interval: 5.0 s.
- Action Time: 40.0 s.
- Cooldown time: 15.0 s.
- Progress Accumulation and Loss
- Progress gain per second: 3 %.
- Time before you start losing progress: 130.0 s.
- Progress loss per second: 5 %.
Mobility
Detection
Combat Instructions
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Activation Effects:
- Action time: 50s
- Main battery AP shell damage increase: +33%
- Main battery maximum dispersion reduction: -35%
- Reinforce an allied ship with a support consumable: +50%
- Reinforce your ship with a support consumable: +25%
- Progress does not decay.
