History Trivia / WorldOfWarships

*** Tirpitz: Torpitz.[[note]]It gets torpedoes in-game unlike almost all other battleships because it mounts them on deck in trainable launchers. Other battleships had fixed, submerged torpedo tubes, making their torpedoes impossible to implement in-game. And those fixed tubes were almost always removed during pre-WW2 refits anyway, because they were fairly useless on account of inability to be properly aimed. Plus, adding more belt armour and/or anti-torpedo bulges covered up the tubes anyway.[[/note]]

*** Pensacola: [=PepsiCola=]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Because of the number of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' players withing the community, this tends to happen to the Japanese ship line such as "Kongou" for "Kongo", "Fusou" for "Fuso", etc.

*** Tirpitz: Torpitz.[[note]]It gets torpedoes in-game unlike almost all other battleships because it mounts them on deck in trainable launchers. Other battleships had fixed, submerged torpedo tubes, making their torpedoes impossible to implement in-game.[[/note]]

** Team Killers, or more specifically, the way the game ID's them, is nicknamed "Cancer Awareness" due to the game marking their name, and ship ID in bright pink colors, and the view from their team that such players are [[ThisIsGonnaSuck cancerous to their team and the game]].

*** CC= Battle Cruiser[[note]]An even more rare use in game, used in the similar way as CL. In real life, the CC designation would only ever have been applied to the Lexington-class battlecruisers, but those were converted to aircraft carriers, hence the rarity of its use in acknowledging battlecruisers.[[/note]]

** BB= Battleships. Used by players in acknowledging ships technically of the battlecruiser line (the Japanese Myogi and Kongo) due to their in-game classification in the battleship tree.

* UsefulNotes/TypesOfNavalShips: Because of the frequent use of having to use a keyboard to alert team members in Random Battles, players have taken to using basic Naval Ship codes to id the type of vessel they want to alert, or warn their team of.

** CA= Cruisers[[note]]Although technically this code is only used in Real Life for "Armored Cruisers", players tend to use it as the defacto Cruiser code in game[[/note]]
*** CL= "Cruiser, Light"[[note]]When someone decides they rather be somewhat more correct to note a cruiser, when it isn't an Armored Cruiser. Rare, but still occurs.[[/note]]
*** CC= Battle Cruiser[[note]]An even more rare use in game, used in the similar way as CL[[/note]]

** BB= Battleships

** One of the most common insulting nicknames is "baBBy", which usually refers to a stereotype of battleship players that always try to fight from the maximum range of their guns to the point of constantly being against the map boundaries (commonly known as "bluelining") and whine about torpedoes while doing "everything they could" about them [[note]]And by that, we mean they either take no action or take action far too late when the torpedo threat was spotted far in advance[[/note]]

** Torpedoes themselves are earning the nickname "Torpedus", a {{portmanteau}} of torpedo and the "Diabeetus" meme. Quite possibly due to their debatable nature as [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]] and tendency for [[MacrossMissileMassacre being spammed.]]

** Torpedoes themselves are earning the nickname "Torpedus", a {{portmanteau}} of torpedo and the "Diabeetus" meme. Quite possibly due to their debatable nature as GameBreakers and tendency for [[MacrossMissileMassacre being spammed.]]

** Torpedoes themselves are earning the nickname "Torpedus", a {{portmanteau}} of torpedo and the "Diabeetus" meme.

** Torpedoes themselves are earning the nickname "Torpedus" a {{portmanteau}} of torpedo and the "Diabeetus" meme.

*** Pensacola: [=PepsiCola=]

** The latter actually follows the tradition of food-based [[ThemeNaming Theme Nicknaming]] of the Wargaming.Net [=MMOs=] — Minsk-developed ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' shares its nickname of "Potato", [[HollywoodCuisine a stereotypically Belarussian food]], with the company itself, while ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes'', developed in Kiev, is nicknamed "salo-fliers"[[note]]Salolety=salo+samolety(airplanes)[[/note]], after the equally stereotypically Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food) salo]].

* FanNickname: In the Russian fandom the game has already acquired two main nicknames: "Шлюпки" ("Shlupki", or "Lifeboats")[[note]]Often with the [[{{Sarcasm}} ironicaly dismissive]] modifier "those yours".[[/note]], which it actually shares with ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'', and "Корюшка" ("Koryuska" or "Smelt"), due to it being developed by a Saint-Petersburg studio, as the city is famous for its seasonal gluts of smelt in Neva river.

** The latter actually follows the tradition of food-based [[ThemeNaming Theme Nicknaming]] of the Wargaming.Net [=MMOs=] — Minsk-developed ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' shares its nickname of "Potato", [[HollywoodCuisine a stereotypically Belarussian food]], with the company itself, while ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes'', developed in Kiev, is nicknamed "salo-fliers", after the equally stereotypically Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food) salo]].

** The latter actually follows the tradition of food-based [[ThemeNicknaming ThemeNaming]] of the Wargaming.Net [=MMOs=] — Minsk-developed ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' shares its nickname of "Potato", [[HollywoodCuisine a stereotypically Belarussian food]], with the company itself, while ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes'', developed in Kiev, is nicknamed "salo-fliers", after the equally stereotypically Ukrainian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food) salo]].

* FanNickname: In the Russian fandom the game has already acquired two main nicknames: "Шлюпки" ("Shlupki", or "Lifeboats")[[note]]Often with the [[{{Sarcasm}} ironicaly dismissive]] modifier "those yours".[[/note]], which it actually shares with ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'', and "Корюшка" ("Koryuska" or "Smelt"), due to it being developed by a Saint-Petersburg studio, as the city is famous for its seasonal gluts of smelt in Neva river.

* FanNickname: In the Russian fandom the game has already acquired two main nicknames: "Шлюпки" ("Shlupki", or "Lifeboats")[[note]]Often with the [[{{Sarcasm}} ironicaly dismissive]] modifier "those yours".[[/note]], which it actually shares with 'VideoGame/KantaiCollection', and "Корюшка" ("Koryuska" or "Smelt"), due to it being developed by a Saint-Petersburg studio, as the city is famous for its seasonal gluts of smelt in Neva river.