How to play german cruisers the right way?

[thekk]

Currently playing with the Tier V Königsberg, i like this ship yet im dying so fast in it. Got like around a 30% winrate with that one :/ Is it better to play close-midrange with that ship or long range because of the 15km artillery range?

[eMercody]

Yeah German light cruisers and a couple heavy cruisers are really frail. Germans around that tier will usually be kiting away raining HE. German AP has insane alpha, but being as light as they are, lose a ton of penetration over range so the times you are close (higher tiers) AP is scary, otherwise you are stuck with your low damage high pen HE.

[Ashardalon]

their HE has great penetration so sail away from your enemies and wiggle like a madman and grind them down
wont cause as many fires as other HE but the damage is very consistent
the ships are pretty nimble so if you keep at max range and do the wiggle correctly you will only get vaporized sometimes, most of the times their shells should land all around you
with practice you can bait your entire enemy fleet across the entire map with only dying a little bit

great practice because from the hipper and beyond you will have to play like this again, but then you will have an armored ass to shake at your enemy

[thekk]

Thanks for the tips guys will try it out later

[meredith999]

and dont show a broadside

[Goldmania™]

NEVER show broadside or you can get obliterated from the moon. I know because as a BB main, königsberg is one of my favorite targets at low tiers. Floating citadels my brother.