

I was planning to get Colbert but it seems to me it’s not as strong as I thought it was. I currently need to regrind one more line to get a research bureau ship. You also inherit BB burn duration instead of the shorter Cruiser one. You got better armor than Cruisers but don't ever believe you're armored like a Battleship, and don't ever think you can tank like a German BB. But Super Cruiser concealment sucks to near-BB levels. She packs 380mm guns like a BB but has Cruiser accuracy. You're better armored, have more HP than typical Cruisers. Super Cruisers try to bring both the best and worst of Cruiser and Battleship gameplay. Siegfried is a Super Cruiser with the gimmick of Battleship sized 380mm guns with true Cruiser accuracy. Low arcing shells with short travel time compared to her peers. Godly AP Penetration compared to shells much larger than Slava's 406mm AP. She has a BB icon but IMO, not the BB staying power.īelow is an Artillery Chart with Slava's AP compared to many of Tier X's hardest hitting Battleships. If Yamato-class can hit with their 460mm+ AP, they will Overmatch both your deck armor and extremities. If you are somewhere that ships can reliably engage you, you will melt to HE spam and possibly get Overmatched easily in your 25mm extremities. Dispersion is Godly at range but as the distance shortens, becomes more and more meh. Godly Guns and Godly Shell flight characteristics. Slava is a "long range or die" Battleship. Matter of fact, they're fantastic fire starters, 9% fire chance for their 127mm secondaries while Georgia, Massachusetts are 5%.

Ohio also has great secondaries if that's ever your thing. While I think Thunderer is the superior BB between the two in terms of gunnery and shells (they released in the same update), Ohio is built more stout and can take punishment. 27kts suck though, but hey, if Yamato can get away with it, so can Ohio. High Tier USN BB 38mm deck armor is pretty good in foiling a number of raw HE shell pens. Once a shell has an Overmatch advantage against a section of armor, there are no checks for bouncing. 457mm guns have very high Overmatch Benefits against Cruisers: There are numerous Cruisers that have 30mm armor sections they use to angle against AP smaller than 430mm, and bounce them. Ohio is more a souped up traditional Battleship. Slava, Ohio, Siegfried are pretty different. This is more of what style of play you prefer, OP.
