Panocek

For not quite secondary specced Blyatmarck I call it a win anyway, especially as you can't just sit in the open with air traffic overhead

And proper tool for the job in comparison

To be honest its the Cleveland who is offender in terms of survivability than other cruisers are glass. Back in beta Cleveland had split citadel, which made her even tougher nut to crack, despite 16mm plating everywhere For rather survivable cruisers you would want German tier 8+, they all have low placed citadel and turtleback armor to protect it against most munitions at short to mid range distances. At long range it usually stops working tho

Without practice you can't get better with aiming I'm afraid. Molotov as tier 6 you can take to Scenarios both for experience and credit farming. Though you might not want to get close as bots are quite competent at focus fire

You can always look up for some heavy cruiser gameplays to get an idea where to start with bigger guns First off the yuotube

Molotov have reasonably quick reload and guns need very little lead, though compared to spammers she indeed fires slow. With heavy cruisers ammo selection for proper target is one of the main skills one have to learn, also waiting few seconds extra if target is turning for broadside is worth, if you have AP already loaded. Nonetheless, all WW2 era RU cruisers turn like battleships while having vodka bottle for armor. They are all long range fire support, only with Moskva (tier 10) you can expect to shrug off ordnance. And even she when caught broadside deletes faster than you can say "derp". Torps on most of RU ships are for decoration and occasional island ambush. Even on IJN cruisers they are secondary armament, despite their potency and stealth torping ability on tier 8 and 9.

Why not

I assume getting Scharnhorst, Derpitz or free exping up to Bismarck is out of question?

Russian gunboats to unleash your inner Rush B needs.

Apparently Iowa and Conqueror class destroyers are enough of an invisible imaginary threat

Except all 12v12 BB I've took part in were THE definition of camping. "Iowa go spot, you have camo"

But then these torps deal pitiful damage and you can't spam them left right and center unlike Zed 52. Gunpower is decent but not quite on par with Gearing/YY even with all out dakka build (3.2s reload) and torps are even more behind with such build

Khaba is no battleship for other reason too - she was nerfed. 4 TIMES (removal of stealth firing, range nerf, rudder nerf, 10km torp removal)

Because Cleve competes with Buddyonny and WG can't stand capitalist ship beating glorious mother russia boat

WG supposedly uses global stats as main balancing point, including right click brigade as well

If you expected Indy to match Balansfast then yea, she can be quite underpowered in that regard

If RU DD split is any indication then no, you get no free reset. But you can retrain 19lvl captain to the T8 Cleveland

Personally I have Indianapolis already, so NO is going to be bit redundant in my case. Thus hopes for free camo for T8 Baltinope

WG so far reimbursed players with full credit value should they get the same ship twice

inb4 Cleveland collectors boat I wonder what will happen to NO anniversary camouflage. I guess it will simply go down with tier and I won't get spare free camo for Baltimore

I guess thats the plan. If so, Cleveland will be oddly floating in tech tree, not researchable until rest of the line arrives or Omaha players for a time will be able to research tier 8 directly?

We already had high cap exp rewards in the past

Fixed. I still remember those "17km range with 17s shell flight time", shooting things with that kind time-to-impact was interesting experience

But... but... muh superior dpm

I have odd feeling T8 Baltimore might be one of the best CA at that tier. 10s reload, radar, hilarious AA and SHS, though she doesn't have extra range unlike Martel