heno

I've been playing and grinding the RN cruiser line hard since it was released (I now have a Fuji). Apart from tier II-IV my games have almost alway been fun. I think the RN line is excellent. Especially from Leander and up. If you're used to a playstyle though, it really requires a shift in mindset to play them. But once you do they are very good ships. I'm not British though. And I think our resident British playerbase expected the hail of the new royal navy ship line to be a paradigm shift of World of Warships. E-Brittania rule the waves sort of thing. No, just no. Like everything take the time to master it, before you spew out conclusions on how terrible the ships are. Having 30 games or less don't give you the insight to write it off entirely, like it looks 90% of the posters ITT does. And the Belfast is made of pure awesome sauce. A bit OP. Borderline ridiculous. It shits all over the Flint which is the closest resemblance in game (but apart from them both being CL's they are very different).

The Colorado bar the lol Albany is hands down the worst ship I've driven in this game. I felt really at home with the New Mexico and had consistent good results in it. Thanks to the colorado's horrible spread its extremely underperforming. Close range enemy cruisers was easy meat in the New Mexico, in the Colorado I feel defenseless against anything that comes near me bar BB's, and get HP spammed to death fairly quickly. It's awsome at AA but I get only into games with carriers 3/10 and they usually fly long circles around me anyway. Hopefully this ship will put me off this game alltogether so I'll stop sink my $$$ into it, lol

IJN DD's looks underwhelming above tier 5 to me (I haven't played them above this tier), decreased torpedo speed and worse concealment. It doesn't matter much to have ~10 km range on your torpedoes when you mostly operate on the limit of your spotting range anyway when firing torpedoes. The longer range you fire your torpedoes from, the more chance based the result (if you get any hits) becomes, while sneaking around on the limit of your concealment requires more skill and is thus more fun. Having DD's with 15 and 20 km torpedo range is downright silly, you just fire off spreads at random and hope something hits? That's a horrible and boring game mechanic and I really don't want to grind the higher IJN DD's because of that.