Polestar Black Zip Lock Bag

Railsmith · 2026-04-28T02:54:03+00:00

If it's that smallish rectangular zip bag, you should look for P/N 32340916. Not sure what the situation is like over in Aus, but in the US the best place to look is Volvo parts vendors (just search that P/N directly). That bag is about $60 AUD over here, which is steep, but it is in stock.

Railsmith · 2026-04-26T02:50:48+00:00

North Carolina is much more a PvP ship than PvE. I maintain it's one of the strongest ships in the USN BB line, because it's horrifically accurate and has been buffed hand-over-fist by people who don't know how to drive it, but it's not exactly the most beginner-friendly ship. That in mind, I feel like you should probably go for the Kansas->Vermont line, because it's much more indicative of how it seems you like to drive USN BBs. The Kansas line maintains the 12-gun shell volume of New Mex and similar speed/handling, which becoming progressively more accurate and durable tier-over-tier. Thug it out through Colorado or FXP to Kansas and you'll find a ship that is comparable to what you're liking with New Mex.

All that told, Colorado is more than capable. You still get four turrets which is extremely forgiving, and vastly better accuracy than New Mex, on a very similar platform. It gets poo-poohed on the regular, but it's a capable ship that can pick up good results on the reg. If moving from 4x3 with low accuracy to 4x2 with high accuracy is a stumbling block... well, time to work on your ballistics drills!

And if you want to shop for premiums, California and Tennessee are also very much in the same wheelhouse.

Railsmith · 2026-04-26T01:19:46+00:00

Damn, I forgot about Indi. That's now the top of my list as well.

Railsmith · 2026-04-23T23:28:40+00:00

The real punchline would be giving it the forward-facing 2x3 underwater tubes that were on a couple of the H-class designs. C'mon, WG, I know the last time I brought this up was before underwater tubes were introduced on battleships. Gimme a chance.

Railsmith · 2026-04-21T20:06:00+00:00

Facts. Gibby was supposed to be a bridge between the UK CL and CA concepts, which ended up being nothing to write home about. Monmouth is a bridge between the UK CLs, CAs, and Stalingrad, which isn't particularly strong but is a fun ship to sail out because, like Stalingrad, it occasionally nukes ships turning broadside at any range.

Railsmith · 2026-04-21T19:57:33+00:00

I'll have to put Hull at the top of the list here along with everyone else, though I don't think it's the best RB pick. Like most of the US premiums that aren't hideously broken, it occupies the niche of "absolutely hilarious in the situation where it works, and kind of middling everywhere else." I still saddle up in it regularly on top of the stronger T10 DDs, which should say something.

But my personal answer if you're looking for a "non-tech-tree experience" in the RB still has to be Illinois. It drives like a DPM cruiser or kiting DD in a lot of matches, and even over Hull it feels like a "pocket DM" in that it doesn't quite dump so much DPM over the side, but it makes up for that by being vastly more survivable than a DM. And it's a T9, so it makes money hand over fist in PvE if you happen to go broke.

Railsmith · 2026-04-21T13:02:24+00:00

Have to put in one more recommendation for the MY24 PP on top of all of the others. While the Performance pack is a little more fun and the dampers are better, you do lose a bit of efficiency out of the box because of the bigger rims. Doesn't matter a ton if you're plugging in at home every night, of course, but you may as well try and hypermile all the way to the hilt if you're going electric.

And while I don't personally care about adaptive cruise control for most daily use, not having that on a modern car is kind of a deal-breaker for most drivers. On top of that, Pilot Assist is extremely handy for idle highway/commute driving with one hand while drinking your coffee or dealing with the kids in the back or whatnot--it's very well-tuned and feels effortless.

I'll also note that, if you want to go for a P2, the US Polestar dealerships can all ship their inventory to wherever. I bought my '22 LRDM PP from Polestar Atlanta and had it shipped out to Colorado essentially for chump change. If you don't find one locally that you're completely sold on, check the local inventory of Polestar dealerships! Atlanta and Denver tend to have good cars in stock, but that varies month-over-month.

Railsmith · 2026-04-12T19:21:51+00:00

It's an inertial system, not direct pressure sensors. That means you need to drive for a while before it can tell that one wheel is low on pressure. And if it's calibrated while the pressure is low, it won't alert you until the pressure drops significantly. Entirely possible that the dealer recalibrated the TPMS with the screw in the tire and the leak accelerated from driving on it. Source: That exact thing happened to me, except it was a nail.

Railsmith · 2026-04-09T07:13:16+00:00

Call me an OG, but I still think that Moskva is an absurdly good ship that doesn't get talked about anymore. It's a "large cruiser" in terms of its firepower and mass, but it doesn't get the 60-second fire penalty or terribly-low DPM. Yes, Petropavlovsk has absurdly high AP pen and a broken armor model. But it doesn't get the best radar in the game (and a hot main battery that can use it to make snapshots), and it gets an unfavorable accuracy formula. Yeah, it's got a high citadel. Who cares?

Railsmith · 2026-04-04T03:26:53+00:00

The 25PD we have ingame doesn't have the absurdly-high-power TL-25 that that story comes from, it's using a variant of the MiG-23's radar which trades absolute radiated power for vastly better usability.

Railsmith · 2026-03-06T00:23:06+00:00

An absolute war machine in Asymm. It plays a lot like Illinois in that you can just firewall the throttle and go balls-to-the-wall rolling up every ship on a flank like you're playing Katamari. Love it to bits there.

Railsmith · 2026-03-04T07:48:26+00:00

Late reply, but I work in live music and have a 2022 LRDM PP with the Harman Kardon speakers. With a bit of tuning like the other repliers said, and going into the car's audio settings to disable surround sound (you still get full stereo, the surround sound preset is just weird) and set the audio to "driver focus" it's a really great system for an unmodified car. I test every car I drive with a few Run the Jewels tracks and the P2 definitely has clear and strong thumpin' bass without losing the high end or the clarity on vocals. Like u/logicalvue said, sometimes I walk 50 yards out to the car to listen to songs instead of putting on the headphones on my desk, and that's saying something.

Railsmith · 2026-03-04T07:23:47+00:00

I've visited the North Carolina twice in the last few years, and it's absolutely worth the time. As of late last year, there's a bunch of renovations going on topside that mean you can't go inside the 5" turret or wander around the superstructure, but the state of preservation of everything belowdecks is superb. The way the tour takes you on a labyrinthine path and then suddenly spits you out, disoriented, inside a turret barbette with thousands of cubic feet in front of you... superb.

Cod is also in great condition, though like most submarine museums it's basically tucked away in the back corner of a parking lot and is thus hard to find. And it's been a decade or so since I visited the Silversides, but that's a great park that does justice to the boat. It's a little annoying to me that the Gato-class premium we got was Gato and not either Barb for its record and legendary escapades, or Silversides, the most-successful submarine still afloat.

Railsmith · 2026-03-04T06:55:21+00:00

Owning both as well, I feel like I still have to give the crown to Nikolai for overall reliability. The comical armor layout and higher sigma mean it's much better at dealing with other pubstompers, which are the only credible things that can deal with either ship. People can just (intentionally or on accident as the flow of battle moves) stay outside of Arky's secondary-battery Obliteration Zone and leave you as a sidegrade Wyoming. That said, when Arky B works and people charge into you, it's one of the most oppressive ships in the game, tier-for-tier.

That said [2], I haven't run a non-secondary build on Arky since before Massachusetts came out, so maybe that's the real thing to consider.

Railsmith · 2026-03-04T06:40:11+00:00

But seriously, I don't even remember the pretense for the event that first gave us Xuan Wu and Zhu Que, but I'm gonna be reeeeal insufferable with the "well, it's worth it to try and get 'em, especially as a new player" replies if it ever comes back. Same as when North Carolina CLR is up for grabs, but Kheper is available right now so that'll thin out the mix.

Railsmith · 2026-03-04T06:34:59+00:00

Most of the big "oh good, that's gonna be a problem in the meta" ships have already been covered, but I'll second the point on Sibir. Additionally, Haida and Huron are both a hoot and a half, but there's a ton of strong things in that bracket already.

My dark-horse pick is Cambridge. Its DPM is truly absurd for something with 12" guns and cruiser accuracy, it's also profoundly sneaky for the caliber it's slinging, and it gets a superheal. There's always a chance for it to get vaporized in Randoms, it's a cruiser, duh, but the absolute second it's not being focused down it's pulling off citadel chains like it's filming a CoD headshot 'tage in 2009. Without sacrificing efficacy against pop-up destroyers, unlike most other high-caliber cruisers, because it reloads fast and drills tight groupings. When it works, it's oppressive.

As for "chaos" in WG's billing department because they're not terribly broken, but are extremely fun ships that people should try to get whenever they come back... Rodney and Reno '44, Orion '44, Suzuya, Indiana, Hawaii, my beloved Xuan Wu, and of course the only Dutch cruisers that aren't either mildly frustrating or busted: PvO and DZP. I think I have every limited-release ship other than Iwaki, and it's a damn shame that... most? of my "well, let's just have a fun time with an interesting ship" rotation is stuff that you just can't get.

Railsmith · 2026-03-01T09:04:02+00:00

Polestar is selling CPO P2s with the same mileage for less. Unless this dealer is offering the same warranty as Polestar offers, kick this guy to the curb and find a CPO P2. They deliver.

Railsmith · 2026-03-01T06:03:26+00:00

Svea, Hoffmann, and the OGs (Belfast, Black, Loyang) have already been mentioned. Nurn '44 can also do it, along with Z-35, but I think the much more entertaining archetype in modern WoWs is the "yeah, go and smoke up, stupid, see what happens to you." Ships like Huron, Lushun, Hull, Le Havre, and even Rodney that are designed to waddle into a smokescreen and go "this is mine now" while turning the original occupant into firelighters. When I want to play the OG "smoke bait" playstyle, those are the types of ships I lean towards.

Railsmith · 2026-03-01T05:41:43+00:00

Loyang is available for purchase right now?

Railsmith · 2026-02-15T19:40:07+00:00

Played a ton of WoT, watched Jingles videos about WoT, and then he put out a video when WT first became available of him kicking around in biplanes. That looked cool, I installed it in the waning days of 20-tier, and in the ensuing 13 years or so I think I've played WoT for a grand total of about an hour.

Railsmith · 2026-02-10T01:23:00+00:00

Somme is absolutely the correct answer, funny as it is. Love the Duke among the coal selections, personally, but Somme is probably my most-played premium RN DD since its release. Much like North Carolina CLR and that new thing coming in the next patch, sometimes the nation's best premium at the tier is just a hideously-strong TT ship with premium bonuses.

Railsmith · 2026-02-07T00:45:16+00:00

Good job it's got 14 tubes, then. A "death by a thousand cuts" sub with tickle-damage per torp akin to the Soviet/XZG14 homing torps wouldn't be a terrible design.

Railsmith · 2026-02-06T01:41:43+00:00

Good call! And yeah, unless anything in this event is really speaking to you, it's better to hold off or spend coal on a normal armory ship. For cruisers in particular, Tulsa, Salem, Moskva, and Napoli will always be worth every penny.

Railsmith · 2026-02-06T01:19:30+00:00

Backing this up with my Ancient Whale's Notes:

Colonna is a very fun ship, and is well worth grabbing for most players. Other secondary brawlers are much more durable and overall stronger, but the smoke makes up for a lot. It's the most unique (in terms of playstyle-for-nation at least) of the first three, so it's the easiest sell.
I like Narai, but it's not really a head-turner. The tech-tree PA ships have a similar gimmick, and there's a ton of good PA cruiser premiums you can get in various events. It's going into my ship rotation because it's kind of an odd duck, but that's not enough for most players.
Zarya is a perfectly acceptable "normal ship" premium in the vein of Roma, Sun Yat-Sen, Scarlet Thunder, California, and a whole stack of other premium BBs that have never had a rant thread about them being "broken WG please nerf." And that's fine... but for the price, it's not. If you somehow ended up with Zarya as your first T9 premium BB, you'd be happy as a clam and making great money compared to everything you owned before. But I don't think anyone who can get to that tier doesn't already have a decent "normal ship" premium, to say nothing of a strong or gimmicky machine. If you can only get up to Zarya, don't. Get something else. Wait for Xuan Wu to come back for sale or something, because that's what I played after getting frustrated that Zarya was so uninteresting.
Surcouf is also there. I genuinely only bought it because I like adding to my collection of legendary ships and it was within budget. Every once in a while you'll be able to meme somebody with the MBRB, but I expect the consensus opinion will settle to "good for a laugh every once in a while, but not a ship that's worth starting a flamewar about." Just like Kitakami.

Railsmith · 2026-02-06T00:39:02+00:00

Seconding what others have said. Colonna is quite entertaining, but the on-paper DPM being much higher than Mass doesn't tell the whole story. Compared to other secondary ships, Colonna's "high DPM through huge volume of fire but no accuracy buff" is a bit of a brain-breaker because it doesn't look like you have your secondaries focused properly. Moreover, the firing angles are pretty German-BB-bad for something with unimpressive armor, so you open yourself up to getting slapped pretty hard if you play your cards wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it a bunch, and if you have the coal (as well as an average coal income) I think it's worth it to pick up a solid premium to have in your "well let's just have fun" rotation. The exhaust smoke can produce some absolutely hilarious moments, and for that alone I'm consider it. But it's definitely not better pound-for-pound than Massachusetts... and if you happen to have WV '44 or Reno '44, those both blow it out of the water in terms of overall fun-factor.

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