Hindenburg still relevant?

[Siagor]

I'm only at Nurnberg but quite like the Mainz gameplay.

 

Is Hindenburg similar? Is it a good t10 cruiser?

[ColonelPete]

Hindenburg is the toughest ship of the line and therefore plays differently. And yes, she is still a good ship in Random.

[SolanumTuberosumRex]

I played Hindenburg a lot lately on the PTS, and she was honestly a revelation. I am now grinding my a$$ off thru Hipper (which I love btw) and then Roon. Hindenburg is awesome, from the 30 or so games I played in both random and ranked. 

[Panocek]

Hinden is still very solid cruiser. High HE pen, painful AP even without citadel hits, potent torpedo payload for yolo moments and then 12 shells every what, 9 seconds? Is not something to scoff at.

[Kazomir]

Conventional heavy cruisers in this game are in a bad spot in my opinion. Too fragile to BB guns, HE and fire damage is fake damage that gets repaired, aircraft carriers crap on you with plane spotting and if they attack you you are forced to either take them on the chin or turn your citadel towards BBs.*

 

* Unless it's russian wunderwaffe cruisers with magical armor and ludacris level of low freeboard. They actually have some use as they can get into their ranges to use their wonderous 12km radar/BB-Citadelling railguns.

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

I just unlocked Hindenburg. It's great. I opted for the "lighthouse" configuration. The ship is tanky, damage output is incredible, even for a mediocre player like me. The HE pen is out of this world. Next step, Lütjens.

[FukushuNL]

8 hours ago, PsychoClownfish said:

I played Hindenburg a lot lately on the PTS, and she was honestly a revelation. I am now grinding my a$$ off thru Hipper (which I love btw) and then Roon. Hindenburg is awesome, from the 30 or so games I played in both random and ranked. 

I find PTS and Live to be a totally different experience. Ships I completely destroy with on PTS do far from that on Live. 

[kapnobathrac]

My fav cruiser 

[Cammo1962]

9 hours ago, Panocek said:

Hinden is still very solid cruiser. High HE pen, painful AP even without citadel hits, potent torpedo payload for yolo moments and then 12 shells every what, 9 seconds? Is not something to scoff at.

Its even more fun to burn a full health Yamato to the ground in the Hindenburg @Panocek  

[Seraphice]

Hindenburg is definitely still a strong ship in my opinion.

50mm pen with decent rate of fire and fire chance is not easily dismissed. Her damage output is still quite high and her survivability is still high enough even with all the 30mm overmatch around

Personally not a fan of hipper or roon, but hindenburg sure packs a punch

~Sera

[Animalul2012]

One of the dirtiest HE spammers puts smolensk to shame. Spamming 12 62mm pen HE shells every 8(with lutjens and other factors in could be even lower.) minutes make anything not wanting to push you+not easy to citadel and 5 heals? Why does hindenburg and roon get 5 heals but the dutch cruisers who burn for 60 seconds get 4?  Oh it can also eat you very fast if caught broadside since the AP has enough penetration and very high alpha. This ship does not need any help even more it needs to have 4 heals back not 5, german cruisers aint about armor anymore(not that they are armor is bad they are way more durable caught off guard than a radar cruiser) but DPM. 

[Animalul2012]

1 minute ago, Seraphice said:

Hindenburg is definitely still a strong ship in my opinion.

50mm pen with decent rate of fire and fire chance is not easily dismissed. Her damage output is still quite high and her survivability is still high enough even with all the 30mm overmatch around

Personally not a fan of hipper or roon, but hindenburg sure packs a punch

~Sera

Wish hipper had half a second rate of fire but the trick that I found is to use AP 95% of the time in hipper. Roon with gunther lujtens was a lot of fun and has better armor tier for tier than hindenburg I would argue.

[DaBung]

Hindenburg is probably my favourite T10. It’s a rare example of a ship that’s effective at all ranges and has something to deal with all opponents: Long range HE spam with good pen and ballistics for BBs. Good AP and a lot of guns for cruisers. Hydro and guns with excellent ballistics for dealing with DDs. And good AA for whatever that’s worth. The generally good armour and manoeuvrability keeps you alive, particularly with cruisers and BBs. 16 torps for yolos is great too, though you won’t use it much it matters a lot when you do have those opportunities… it also means people think twice about pushing you too hard (including DDs).
 

Only weaknesses seem to be:

- Max dpm is not amazing, though the ballistics and pen mean that the dpm you actually end up doing will probably be decent. It just means you will lose dpm fights with Salem’s etc… unless you can dodge. 
- Relatively low speed, though this is rarely an problem for me. 
 

I strongly recommend her, well worth the grind. 

[yagron_the_real]

2 hours ago, Animalul2012 said:

Wish hipper had half a second rate of fire but the trick that I found is to use AP 95% of the time in hipper. Roon with gunther lujtens was a lot of fun and has better armor tier for tier than hindenburg I would argue.

You're playing against tier 10 anyways, so does it matter.

[MadBadDave]

Yes, Hindy is best German Cruiser.

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

16 hours ago, Siagor said:

I'm only at Nurnberg but quite like the Mainz gameplay.

 

Is Hindenburg similar? Is it a good t10 cruiser?

A while back she was a monster! Just watch the timecoded end of this clip

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Now days with the flood of big guns and CVs everywhere she is just really really strong ship!

 

With ships like Stalin and Smolensk I would rank her top 5 T10 cruisers in the game alongside Petro and maybe Venezia. Roon is not really that strong but when you get Hinden all is forgiven. She has great HE pen and fires and her AP is monster. Yolo torps deluxe and 6 km hydro. Shes great at burning down BBs and cruisers from 21 km range and has good survivability with 1 extra bonus heal standard. Works really well with Gunter Lutjens.

[___RadioActive____]

It's a good heavy cruiser, It's very fun to play until high caliber BB's started to hit your ship
so you've to constantly maneuver your ship. Imo you should grind it.
Good luck.

[Cippalippus]

Hindenburg is good, however you should keep in mind that it's not a very used ship in competitive as it lacks radar and, while being a jack of all trades, you can find a better ship for most roles.

[MadBadDave]

1 hour ago, Cippalippus said:

Hindenburg is good, however you should keep in mind that it's not a very used ship in competitive as it lacks radar and, while being a jack of all trades, you can find a better ship for most roles.

It’s has German hydro, which while not as long reaching as US or Russian radar it is very effective at sniffing out incoming torps and stealthy DDs. 
 

Brawl saw a lot of Hindi I’ve seen a lot of Petro players underestimate a Hindi especially when 2 racks of torps emerge. 
 

With Tank mode (LM) it’s near unstoppable 

[totally_potato]

18 hours ago, Siagor said:

I'm only at Nurnberg but quite like the Mainz gameplay.

 

Is Hindenburg similar? Is it a good t10 cruiser?

Hindenburg is basically a super mainz from your perspective

 

Its a very good T10 cruiser, and its never gone out of meta for very long

Fast reloading guns, 12 of em, Quarter HE pen with decent fire chance, hard hitting AP, good ballistics and comfortable range, decent armor, average stealth, DDs worth of brawling torps, German hydro. Decent AA too. It also generally has more survivability than other standard cruisers, as it gets an additional repair party, aka 4 base, compared to others who get 3 base.

 

Honestly, you can build Hindenburg whatever the hell you want to build it for

You could go standard cruiser build, light house build, tanky brawling build for ranked, AA build, etc etc, whatever the hell you want

 

Its a jack of all trades cruiser, very versatile, very beginner friendly, very powerful. I would argue, that overall, Hindenburg is one of the best cruisers at T10.

 

Its so good, that its worth grinding the powercreeped Hipper for it (roon is fine). 

 

 

[totally_potato]

2 hours ago, OldschoolGaming_YouTube said:

A while back she was a monster! Just watch the timecoded end of this clip

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Now days with the flood of big guns and CVs everywhere she is just really really strong ship!

 

With ships like Stalin and Smolensk I would rank her top 5 T10 cruisers in the game alongside Petro and maybe Venezia. Roon is not really that strong but when you get Hinden all is forgiven. She has great HE pen and fires and her AP is monster. Yolo torps deluxe and 6 km hydro. Shes great at burning down BBs and cruisers from 21 km range and has good survivability with 1 extra bonus heal standard. Works really well with Gunter Lutjens.

watching that German tank vid of yours

I remember when some ppl had the balls to run Hindenburg sec build xD

[Aethervoxx]

19 hours ago, Siagor said:

Is Hindenburg similar? Is it a good t10 cruiser?

Anything is good handled correctly. I don't have a Hindenburg, myself, but I make sure to be aware of what any enemy Hindenburg is doing, so, there's your answer .

[PyroA]

Hindi is my 3rd most played ship, and it's a great cruiser. 

[WorthyOpponent]

I personally prefer Nevsky, but Hindenburg is an extremely solid ship.

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

1 hour ago, WorthyOpponent said:

I personally prefer Nevsky, but Hindenburg is an extremely solid ship.

I really love Nevski as well, but in my experience, I feel like Hinden is a bit more armored and tanky at range and sets more fires/gets more damage. Sometimes when I fire spam from range w Nevski it feels like mosquito bites on the BBs and the damage doesn't tick up like Hinden. Then Nevski can be devastating to surprise DDs in caps with that radar and DPM.