Which steel ship to go for these days?

[grafik]

Soon I will have amassed enough steel to buy another ship including the most expensive ones - I am eyeballing Svea, Kommissar or Bourgogne, or Incomparable, but I would love to hear any opiions/personal preferences. Thanks!

[grafik]

Too late, I got Lauria, now I meed to accu,ulate steel again for a long time ... but thanks Maybe I will get one of these in a drop?

[Jackson]

Originally posted by grafik:

Too late, I got Lauria, now I meed to accu,ulate steel again for a long time ... but thanks Maybe I will get one of these in a drop?

So far we haven't had steel ships drop in anything I think. Definitely not the usual things like Christmas containers.

[AK]

I was really torn between Ragnar and Svea. As a DD main I was leaning towards Ragnar, but knowing I would never play it, because its boring I went for Svea.

No regrets at all. This ship has insane gun angles so you basically can angle and most of the time shoot all guns. Just look out for overmatch. Not talking about all the utility it brings. Its hard to remove you from a flank if you play correctly.

[grafik]

Svea will definiely be my next steel ship, I play BB much less than light cruisrers or heavy cruisers.

[grafik]

Have to figure out how to do dmg with Lauria, so far haven't managed more than 71k for a bb with 16000+ SAPs :)

[Ace42]

Originally posted by grafik:

Have to figure out how to do dmg with Lauria, so far haven't managed more than 71k for a bb with 16000+ SAPs :)

Not got Lauria myself - but afaik it's worth hitting the books and learning what specific targets you can SAP-citadel. That will help a ton with ammo selection and maximising damage output.

It looks comparable to Marco Polo (again, not played Lauria myself); so ammo selection and BB fundamentals should be important for both of them: You don't want to be wasting the citadel potential the AP (with its good overmatch) can give you.

The SAP should be particularly good against bow-tanking BBs, as off the top of my head, should be very hard to find deck plates >100mm that might shatter the SAP shells.

https://youtu.be/9BpZLyq60fc

[Elesh Norn]

Glad to have been of help!

You don´t need many hits to do massive dmg and the main advantage is overmatch + SAP for many bow / stern BBs and cruisers even if they are angled.
AP works very well on flat broadsides, too.

It´s stealthy, fast, maneuverable and well armored - perfect mix for me.
Just be careful not to get hit in the exhaust area, as it is easy to get a citadel there.

[Jaynoble55]

I think gogne is a tad overated. My opinion and its a unpopular one. Meck is good ( i have one) but can be a bit boring. I got a Shika but only to spec secondaries. Which is going to make it terrible, but fun, I hope. Havent played it yet as I got it for Asym's. I wouldnt dare take a secondary shiki to a random game.

[grafik]

R Lauria needs some getting used to! Had to figure out how to work her but it's a lot of fun whizzing round the map and slapping everything with 16k SAP shells. Max speed undetected is 40.6 which outoaces most DDs :D Surprisingly tanky for 79k hp and can deliver a nasty broadside closeup!