Hello,
Please I am level 5, started few days ago, played some battles. For two times in these battles I encountered in close combat 1v1 less than 7 km away St. Louis cruiser, when I was playing South Carolina Battleship. In first battle I was last ship from my team, against 5 enemies, that were far away. I knew I was dead anyway so I tried AP ammo against St. Louis. I was shooting one salvo from each turret in other parts of St. Louis, I got one damage for 2k from my first 2 shots, when I tried to shoot same spot with all what i got, it was same again one damage for 2k (there was only one miss, so 5 hits). After 1 minute of my whole double complete shot (30 sec reload) I got destroyed by him. He was doing 600-4,5k, mostly 1,5k-3,5k, last shot that killed me was actually 5500 from him. Second encounter was a little bit different from my side (funny there) I used HE ammo, I was doing 600-1,500 damage, but some of shots missed of course and some did nothing. But It was all the same from his side, he was doing 1,500-4,500 damage. When we started to battle each other, I had the first shot. After whole fight him 3/4 of his HP in 1v1 combat (got like 75% acc.), meanwhile he totally destroyed me in seconds (was around 60 - 90 seconds). So I took (elite) St. Louis to do some testing, played about 10 games focusing on Battleship, HE, AP ammo, trying every angle, every part of ship. I was no where near 2,5k damage, when I got like clear 50 hits to Battleship per battle, that´s 500 hits for my 10 battles I was like no way, there is something wrong. It was 50/50 HE and AP ammo, every battle different ammo. So please I would like to ask some experience players or even developers, what is it all about and how can St. Louis cruiser made that much damage to Battleship ? Thank you in advance for clarification.