Marlborough - what an ugly experience!

[Allanagtig]

This might not be news for anyone about the Marlborough, but if i can help others not getting this ship, i will try to.

 

Im in the situation where I feel cheated by wg, for purchasing this crappy boat

This ship is underperforming in almost every single thing.
Pros:

Concealment
Reload
Sometimes you get a lucky salvo off with decent dispersion?

 

Cons:
Low hp and bad armor
Very low surviveability overall
Very bad manouvreability
Crap AAs
Dispersion and sigma is random
Skyscraper citadel
Takes HUGE damage from all sources when fired upon
Low firing range on guns
Among the worst if not the worst gun arcs of all ships in the game
Lacks ability to overmatch almost any ship she faces, only lightcruisers will be overmatched
Crazy bad at fighting other battleships

Its hard to tell if theres actually a good thing about this ship. Some might say the amount of guns, but still here I would disagree as the dispersion/sigma is so bad, that even on full broad salvos, you are lucky to get half of the shells hitting. Also take into account that the penetration of the AP shells are the worst of all the tier 9's. Alot of the heavy cruisers have higher pen :(

 

What are you guys thoughts?

[Karasu_Browarszky]

I don't smoke.

[OldPappy]

Played it once sofar. Thought it was fun, but not good or great. 😂 Just fun. 
I got it mostly as a collectors item and a meme ship for coop etc. For the 4500 dobloons I paid it’s a bit of a bargain. 😀🤷🏻‍♂️

[Verblonde]

9 minutes ago, Allanagtig said:

What are you guys thoughts?

Excellent Coop fodder; wouldn't touch her with a barge-pole against real people...

[OldPappy]

17 minutes ago, Verblonde said:

Excellent Coop fodder; wouldn't touch her with a barge-pole against real people...

I am kind of on that line as well. 😊

[MacFergus]

26 minutes ago, Verblonde said:

Excellent Coop fodder; wouldn't touch her with a barge-pole against real people...

What you managed to damage a ship in co-op without the DDs and Cruisers sinking them all first , That's amazing .

[Verblonde]

3 minutes ago, MacFergus said:

What you managed to damage a ship in co-op without the DDs and Cruisers sinking them all first , That's amazing .

Nah - it's what you get if you play at antisocial hours (server time); for example, if I'm playing on EU at 22:00 my time, that's three in the morning in the UK...

[Siagor]

2 hours ago, Verblonde said:

Nah - it's what you get if you play at antisocial hours (server time); for example, if I'm playing on EU at 22:00 my time, that's three in the morning in the UK...

I was trying to calculate where are you... then saw it's clearly written :-)

[Ocsimano18]

The idea of WG is that dockyard ships should not compete with full price ships to not undercut revenue from full price ships. A lot of people buy dockyard ships saying that 7.5k doubloon is a good price for a T9 premium, regardless of the quality. I don’t agree with that and I skipped a couple of dockyard ships. Also there are a lot of people who are uninformed about the ship and still buy her. WG won’t tell you that it’s trash, but you can check out the reviews before spending money.

[tsounts]

I still find mine pretty manageable but requires careful positioning, can still accumulate potential damage in good amounts as well.

[Yedwy]

3 hours ago, Allanagtig said:

What are you guys thoughts?

Got her, sold her, forgot her, basically

 

She is worthless trash, also prob the last dockyard I am buying into

[Faceoff]

So far I love it, I play it close to medium range, The arcs is a PRO, you can lob bullets shells no other BB can.

 

My captain is bad on it, takes ages to lvl to the important 18-19 points.

 

Wish her armor got redesgined as her sisterships, so positioning is a must, also better when ur teammates in other bb dont play the lone sniper....

 

- minus is no help from either aircraft nor sonar. Reminds me why does Kremlin have antisub, no room for aircraft on that.

 

 

 

 

[Ronchabale]

To be fair I only played the one game in coop for the snowflake, the result there along with the reveiws of streamers etc.was enough

One good thing about 21-22 dockyard was the Repulse

 

 

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

1 hour ago, Ronchabale said:

One good thing about 21-22 dockyard was the Repulse

I'm glad that somebody is geeting some fun out of it!

 

I really, really wanted to get HMS Repulse. I put in the effort to grind for it, and now I wish that I hadn't.

Can't make it work in coop or operations.(with a 21 point captain!)

 

It does way, way less damage than my other tier 6 BBs. Only about 50% of the damage that other BBs like Dunkerque, Fuso & Warspite gain in Operations.

 

What's the secret?

 

I feel like selling the damn thing!

[anonym_ntfKigmJ0k9e]

Marlborough is pretty bad ship, you have very, very low fire chance for her HE and very low AP penetration and damage, if any.

 

I thought it's a fire starter ship, but on average I only start 3-4 fires on 100k or so total damage.  

 

The biggest issue is her monstrous citadel, one mistake and you are gone.

 

Probably the worst shipyard ship so far, I only got it because of steel from the shipyard. 

[lafeel]

22 hours ago, Verblonde said:

Excellent Coop fodder

From what I've seen of her in Co-op I wouldn't even go that far. 

 

Seen several, none have particularly impressed me.

[anonym_FDOLXpxOfXXq]

7 hours ago, Admiral_H_Nelson said:

I feel like selling the damn thing!

I did. Managed to make it work sometimes in Ops, but it felt quite unreliable.

I guess the only 6 guns require very good positionning and aiming, and a bit of luck.

Kind of tempted to buy it back to give it a second chance.

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

14 minutes ago, AmiralPotato said:

Kind of tempted to buy it back to give it a second chance.

Is it possible to buy back a rewrd ship like Repule, once you have sold it?

I confess that I don't know all the rules/functions available in WoWS.

[lafeel]

43 minutes ago, Admiral_H_Nelson said:

Is it possible to buy back a rewrd ship like Repule, once you have sold it?

I confess that I don't know all the rules/functions available in WoWS.

Honestly unsure. And not about to find out, as you well know my position on selling premium/reward ships..

[tsounts]

45 minutes ago, Admiral_H_Nelson said:

Is it possible to buy back a rewrd ship like Repule, once you have sold it?

I confess that I don't know all the rules/functions available in WoWS.

You can contact customers' support and ask for retrieval.

[lafeel]

7 minutes ago, tsounts said:

You can contact customers' support and ask for retrieval.

Far simpler  to just not sell the ship in the first place. Even if you only play them for snowflake events, don't sell premium ships.

[Northern_Nightowl]

Vor 8 Stunden, Admiral_H_Nelson sagte:

 

Can't make it [Repulse] work in coop or operations.(with a 21 point captain!)

 

It does way, way less damage than my other tier 6 BBs. Only about 50% of the damage that other BBs like Dunkerque, Fuso & Warspite gain in Operations.

 

What's the secret?

 

I feel like selling the damn thing!

 

Vor 33 Minuten, Admiral_H_Nelson sagte:

Is it possible to buy back a rewrd ship like Repule, once you have sold it?

I confess that I don't know all the rules/functions available in WoWS.

AFAIK, you could restore every premium that you sold once per 3 month period, a single item per request to the customer support. You'll need a port slot and some credits that sum up to the amount you got for the selling.

 

I grinded Repulse too and nearly managed a Kraken on the very first battle (using, IIRC, one of my 12 pointers from KGV or Warspite). While I still have to learn to cope with its relative fragility, its gunnery most often simply feels amazing, with shells actually landing there where you aimed. It's not spray-and-pray as in most other middle tier BB (Bad examples: Lyon, Normandie, König, Gneisenau, New York, the Spaghetti ships).

I can't tell if this is the secret of the ship, but it will surely benefit from good aiming.

 

Regards, Nightowl

[lafeel]

12 minutes ago, Northern_Nightowl said:

I grinded Repulse too and nearly managed a Kraken on the very first battle (using, IIRC, one of my 12 pointers from KGV or Warspite). While I still have to learn to cope with its relative fragility, its gunnery most often simply feels amazing, with shells actually landing there where you aimed. It's not spray-and-pray as in most other middle tier BB (Bad examples: Lyon, Normandie, König, Gneisenau, New York, the Spaghetti ships).

I can't tell if this is the secret of the ship, but it will surely benefit from good aiming.

Should be good practice for that RN BC line coming later this year, as based off what we know of them in RL they should play similarly..

[Maris_Piper]

She's basically a POS a typical WG Event Ship it's just what they do. (Dido Next) she's ok messing about in Co-Op it's just how Wargaming roll nowadays, imo of course 

[lafeel]

6 minutes ago, Maris_Piper said:

She's basically a POS a typical WG Event Ship it's just what they do. (Dido Next) she's ok messing about in Co-Op it's just how Wargaming roll nowadays, imo of course 

ZF-6 would like a word with you. She's anything but a POS.