You can kill some destoryers in almost one hit with that. Yes, they can fire only AP, but that AP has really good bouncing angles, very short fuse times (so you won't overpen destroyers like other cruisers) and an incredible high damage per minute. You can almost descripe their health pools with a binary system - either healthy or almost dead.īut don't let that fool you, they can protect themselves with smoke screens (care for torpedos in there!) to prevent enemies from deleting you, and they have very good torpedos to protect themselves from battleships pushing into the smoke.īut the best part of the UK cruisers are the guns. To compansate for that, they can "heal" (repair the HP, hull points) very early in the line, and their heals on t8 to t10 are massive. AA is quite good.īasically destroyers armor but with citadels - don't get hit by battleships, they will destroy you easily. They can be launched at good angles, but the range is very limited. They are also quite tanky at t9 and t10, and all german cruisers have the best hydro in the game.
In general, german cruisers have very bad HE shells with extremly good penetration (they can penetrate thicker armor plates, but deal less damage and start less fires than other cruisers), and very good AP shells with extremly poor penetration (bounces easily, but the damage you can pump out is almost on battleship levels if you catch a broadside). Their first decent ship after t3 sits at t9. KM cruisers have a lot of bad ships in their line, from t4 to t8. Their torpedos are also very good, arguably the best torpedos amongst cruisers, although you have to show a lot of broadside to throw them, which can be punished by AP (AP deals severe damage on broadsides, so people often call good AP salvos "punishment for showing too much side"). But their reload speed is very low, so you have to rely on hitting well. Very punishing AP (since most of them have 203mm guns, paired with a good shell arc), very good HE (the highest HE damage per salvo amongst cruisers).
Pretty much all cruisers are "playable", there is no ship where you feel that you have to skip it, althoug the Aoba is kinda bad. IJN cruisers are pretty solid overall, but battleships can punish you hard.
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