World of Warships 15.8 plans its 11th anniversary

World of Warships 15.8 is planned as the game’s 11th-anniversary update, with a Maritime Parade Port, festive first-battle rewards and a new Dockyard centred on Marlborough B. Wargaming labels the entire overview as work in progress, so individual rewards and features can change before the update reaches live servers.

World of Warships 15.8: confirmed details

The current plan gives Festive Tokens for first victories in Tier V through X ships and Steel for superships, with tokens exchangeable for items including Supercontainers and visual effects. The Japanese super cruiser Kurama enters early access. Marlborough B is a British battleship with 16 356 mm guns and serves as the Dockyard construction reward.

What changes for players

Three low-tier Operations — Trial by Fire, Swarm of Steel and Beehive — are intended to widen cooperative options beyond high-tier rosters. Anniversary players should avoid making final resource calculations from the preview because token prices, milestone requirements and reward quantities are not locked. The Port and parade presentation are thematic additions rather than a separate permanent mode.

Timing and wider context

The announcement explains direction, not a final changelog or confirmed deployment date. Wargaming may remove, replace or rebalance content during testing. Captains planning Dockyard purchases or Free XP conversions should wait for the live article and Armory values before committing resources.

The feature list and timing above reflect the developer’s announcement published on August 20, 2026. Future hotfixes can adjust balance or availability, so live values should be checked against the current client.

For World of Warships, the practical checkpoint is the live client: confirm the installed version, platform notes and regional rollout before relying on a scheduled feature. Store availability, maintenance windows and certification can create timing differences even when the developer announces one date for the wider release.

Source: official announcement. All release dates, named features and numerical values in this report come from that primary source; the analysis is our own.

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