Caledon, Danae and Emerald: What do you think about?

[OOAndreasOO]

I never found ships more crap and useless

 

Your opinion?

[deadly_if_swallowed]

Caledon was surprisingly funny. Danae... not so much. Just glad I got Leander from Convoy missions.

[Gnirf]

These three get progressively worse relative their tier. At T3 Caledon is rather strong with her heal and torpedoes, they are squishy but so are other cruisers. Esp. when top tier Caldon can sometimes perform, the others were just a pianful grind, things get better at Leander and above but I don t perform personally with them.

[VC381]

C & D pretty fun, E I couldn't get to work but really only because she's stupidly sluggish. I might have got something from it with practice but then I got Leander from the missions and boy oh boy is that one good!

[lafeel]

Caledon I found pretty fun, reminded me of the Tenryu, which I happen to also like.

 

Danae I have so far found to be more of the same.

 

Haven't played the Emerald yet so I can't comment on her.

[peoplescavalry]

C good as a big DD, D and E are for purists and are going to upset you with there limitations. However they do lead onto a real mans ship the Leander with which at last you can stand your round,and finally the funniest, deadliest biggest bundle of fun the FIJI!

[El2aZeR]

Played Caledon, was okay but nothing really memorable stands out.

Bought Danae but never played her, sold her as soon as I got Leander from the Convoy missions (which is highly enjoyable to play, so for anyone asking if it gets better: Yes, it does).

[LadyJess]

I never found ships more crap and useless

 

Your opinion?

 

I did not like these three ships at all.

[bathoz]

As others have said, the Caledon is pretty great. The Danae is that turned up about 10%, unfortunately, everyone else gets turned up a lot more as they go up a tier, so it's much less forgiving or effective. Both also benefit from being incredibly sexy for a WWI cruisers (which tend to be ugly as sin).

 

The Emerald though. That ship? Ug. It's got less effective firepower than the Danae, due to the wing turrets and weird angles. It's still firing the floaty weird shells that struggle to hurt battleships. And it's both bigger and uglier than what came before. The positive is that enormous torpedo broadside. But it's not really enough to save you.

 

Shorthand. Caledon is fantastic, up there with the Tenryu for the most dynamic and fun tier 3 ships. Danae is okay. Emerald is a grind.

[Comodoro_Allande]

Caledon OK?? Sure, a ship that eats Wickes's HE citadels in the deck is a pretty good cruiser 

 

[JapLance]

My opinion is that Caledon is OKish, Danae is plain bad and Emerald is possibly the worst ship in this game... ever (surpassing old Furutaka and Karlsruhe).

 

To be honest, I would have preferred a "normal" light cruiser line with AP+HE shells, and less experiments with "national flavours". At least up to tier 6-7.

[OOAndreasOO]

My opinion is that Caledon is OKish, Danae is plain bad and Emerald is possibly the worst ship in this game... ever (surpassing old Furutaka and Karlsruhe).

 

To be honest, I would have preferred a "normal" light cruiser line with AP+HE shells, and less experiments with "national flavours". At least up to tier 6-7.

 

Regardless about undergunnery of Danae and Emerald compared with other same-tiers, the real problem is not have HE shells.

 

At low tiers, where almost all light ships barely not have armor, shot only AP is a great disvantage:

Against DDs and CLs you often overpenetrate and make very few damages. You can make effective damages only when hit CL in citadel.

Against BBs you cant penetrate at all....just disturb them with ridicolous damages.

 

152 mm AP shells are excellent against CAs...but till tier 6 there are no CAs in game.

 

The result is to have ships papermade and with whith painful low DPM....In few words "useless"

The only way to use them is run frontally against a BB and try to torp her.

[Spuggy]

These ships are fabulous.

 

They are difficult to use but they are friggin' awesome.

 

I've kept all three and I really enjoy the Emerald. The Caledon is the ship I am most likely to let go. The Danae may also get the boot. This is simply because I already have plenty other ships in those tiers. In tier 5 though, the Emerald is staying.

[argoteck]

From my point of view: caledon is a nice ship, danae is ok-ish but emerald....oh God, the pain, cant hit reliably anything . Shells fly almost like on a usn dd.

[Synth_FG]

I liked them all tbh, but didn't stay long as was in a rush to get to the Leander 

[Muckleburgh]

Reality interest.

 

Danae has incorrect hull shape. It should have a flush fwd, section, like the Caledon, with the anchors below the chine.

The trawler bow, as depicted, was fitted on the later ships of the class, to improve sea-keeping.

 

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[Oely001]

Caledon is pretty strong, she is maybe the strongest T3 cruiser after St Louis. She has very good torpedos, and this squishy AP-only thing works because other cruisers are also squishy (her AP is extremely powerful for a T3 ship), and BB dispersion is terribly high. Danae is mostly the same ship, but the other cruisers and battleships become so much stronger; she is IMHO the worst T4 cruiser, even Karlsruhe is better.

[VC381]

The ship in game represents the whole class. It's quite normal for it to have features from later ships of the class, not just the one it's actually named after. So the bow is not a mistake, just a different detail they chose to use. But yes, thank you for the historical interest.

 

Spuggy, I'm curious what niche you found to get the ship to work. I wanted to enjoy it because it's a really beautiful ship but I had trouble with the agility and gave up.

[AnotherDuck]

They're the ships that teach you how to play Leander and later ships. While Leander has a lot better survivability due to citadel size, if you don't know how to survive with the previous ships, you're not going to do great with Leander either. And higher up in tiers you get back to worse citadel sizes.

[deadly_if_swallowed]

They're the ships that teach you how to play Leander and later ships. While Leander has a lot better survivability due to citadel size, if you don't know how to survive with the previous ships, you're not going to do great with Leander either. And higher up in tiers you get back to worse citadel sizes.

 

Agreed. Though I had to look up the wiki for Emerald since I skipped her entirely thanks to the Christmas Convoy.

 

T1 - Black Swan - get used to AP only

T2 - Weymouth - get used to 152mm AP only

T3 - Caledon - get torps

T4 - Danae - get heal

T5 - Emerald - get smoke

T6 - Leander - get twin turrets, enjoy the package

T7 - Fiji - get triple turrets - I have just unlocked her yesterday. This weekend will be her trial.

[anonym_jRNsHFlzpHCL]

 

Agreed. Though I had to look up the wiki for Emerald since I skipped her entirely thanks to the Christmas Convoy.

 

T1 - Black Swan - get used to AP only

T2 - Weymouth - get used to 152mm AP only

T3 - Caledon - get torps

T4 - Danae - get heal

T5 - Emerald - get smoke

T6 - Leander - get twin turrets, enjoy the package

T7 - Fiji - get triple turrets - I have just unlocked her yesterday. This weekend will be her trial.

 

Tier 6 gets good, then tier 7...BOOM, all the pain from tier 3 to tier 5 you suffered, all the citadels you didnt hit, all the xp you didnt get, all the hawt loots you didnt get ...all them are gone. Welcome to World of Amazing British cruisers and it will only get better now  

[Warspite75]

Caledon and Danae were fun.

Emerald is simply awful. Utterly gash.

​Leander - great fun, played well.

 

[deadly_if_swallowed]

Tier 6 gets good, then tier 7...BOOM, all the pain from tier 3 to tier 5 you suffered, all the citadels you didnt hit, all the xp you didnt get, all the hawt loots you didnt get ...all them are gone. Welcome to World of Amazing British cruisers and it will only get better now  

 

Thank you!

Tried Fiji (stock) for three games this evening. Now I am in love. gg WG wp, and thanks for the Leander from Convoy. Without her, I would not have progressed this line.

1st game: ~110k dmg, 4 kills, 2 devastrikes, first blood, confederate, top score of the game

2nd game: don't ask - this game has never happened

3rd game: ~170k dmg, 3 kills, confederate, high caliber, dreadnought, top score of the game

Fiji, where have you been all my life? <3

[AnotherDuck]

You know, for the number of games I've played in the ship, Leander has one of the highest number of CQC medals. A light cruiser getting lots of kills with secondaries is kinda funny. Dreadnoughts aren't too rare either.

[JOVA1982]

Caledon I disliked,
Danae I managed thanks to the heal.
Emerald I hated

Leander I managed, it had good and bad moments
Fiji I loved