HMS Glorious; a review with little playtime in it

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Inspired by a certain potato masher.

Preface: This is mostly opinion with some facts, and I will update this. Maybe.

First off; the pros;

Fast, enough to keep pace with many cruisers.
A lot of secondaries.

Generally ignored by players that can actually kill it.

Biggest guns in the battle rating (38.1cms) that hit obnoxiously hard, with a fairly average reload speed also with a caveat

Ammunition deep in the water which is always a plus… With a huge downside.

5.7 like the Ikoma but actually a threat past 10km. Mostly.

Now, the absolutely glaring flaws of this abomination:
Made of paper. The armor is astronomically ass. Resists most low to mid caliber SAP but that’s about it. Oddly, people don’t seem to know this and just straight up ignore it. Which leads to the next point:

Poor turning ability which hampers evasive maneuvers. While not Amagi bad, Glorious definitely struggles. This requires the ship to be played in a way that’s counteractive to its guns.

Which are both horribly inaccurate (dispersion) and are less than I have digits on one hand for a whopping total of four guns. In two poorly armored turrets. Sure, you can get the occasional 18km+ cheeky snipe but it’s basically gambling if they actually go where you want them to land in the first place.

The secondary suite suffers from poor penetration and limited range (about 13km before you can’t fire them) but the limited range isn’t much of a hindrance. They’re poorly zeroed in, however and tend to over and undershot targets.

Because this is 1910s/20s battlecruiser, the AA is non existent and what few AA guns there are have a habit of literally doing zero damage to aircraft. As in direct impact to the cockpit for nothing sort of zero damage.

Given this is such a low tier battlecruiser - emphasis on cruiser (because of ass for armor) - the only comparison is probably Graf Spee for playstyle with some differences.

I give it a painful score of 4/10. There’s some distinct advantages but the flaws are so obviously glaring that a new player’s going to struggle to get past the bottom of the team in most scenarios. Conversely, a decent or even good player may be stuck in the middle in most scenarios.

It’s at least capable of doing things in a 6.7 match which is a huge advantage but being made of paper and whatnot hurts Glorious tremendously.

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It’s the same guns mounted to our 7.7s but on a 5.7, it’s gunna have limitations.

Iirc, what we have in game was what Glorious was going to be but became an aircraft carrier instead

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And subsequently thrown away alongside Acasta and Aosta to mine a Norwegian port.

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Someday we’ll get the half sister HMS Furious for even more bizarre actions, it trades Glorious’s dual 15" for single 18" turrets (going as designed with both batteries), but does away with the poor 4" cannons for eleven 5.5" cannons that would be better against surface targets.

Still as Glorious goes forget the tertiary 3" HA HAA gun & use your secondary 4" HA guns as impromptu HAA, they’ve got incredibly high elevation angles & can be used decently as AA albeit must be contact hits (wish thry had shrapnel shells).

Sidenote, the torpedoes are surprisingly good when I used it to cause mass barrages of them.