'Space Battleship Yamato' invades World of Warships

A surprise awaits any player who logs into World of Warships this weekend: space.

The multiplayer online naval battle game (it’s in closed beta now) has slapped space themes on a few ships — including plastering the Yamato battleship class in a Space Battleship Yamato skin.

I thought it was a bug at first when I logged in, but it turns out this is a play on publisher Wargaming’s April Fools’ Day joke about “changing course” with World of Warships. It incorporates names and looks from Space Battleship Yamato, a groundbreaking Japanese sci-fi anime, Star Trek, and Firefly.

Here’s a look at a few of the ship skins and one round of combat in which my Yamato fought against a bunch of space cruisers and battleships — and had a weird encounter.

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This is the “Zaya” carrying a skin that would make it a prime target in a naval battle.

Before she was a starship, the “Enterprise” was an aircraft carrier. But why is that destroyer floating there?

This destroyer has a big whole in the middle — the easiest way to play on “Firefly” with these World War II ships.

The “Yamato” was the biggest battleship ever created … and the Japanese series “Space Battleship Yamoto” introduced the world to anime.

All these ships look wrong. But it feels so right.

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