1- GOOD Rank VI Premium BB.
2- Future-proof potential additional content (at least one more ship equal or better than Roma).
3- I still need to check how it will turn out on the Dev Server; primarily in terms of armor, shell quality and rate of fire.
I am between Italy and U.K for now, it will all boil down to whichever nation gets a better Rank VI Premium, mostly.
After all, I’ll spend at least 2 months playing that ship exclusively, so I need to make sure it’s a good and fun one- and, ideally, one good enough to stay at the endgame lineup.
Though I do recommend Belfast for the earlier BRs if you wanted a cruiser premium. She has some annoying vulnerabilities but is otherwise a really decent ship.
But yeah… We’ll have to wait and see if/what we get for a rank VI premium for either nation
I was tempted to grind France or Italy the old fashion way, but I dont know if I have enough interest in any of the ships to do that. I quite like just being able to play the game
What!? Interesting… rate of fire is one of the hard main factors for me; I am not willing to play anything >30 seconds, hahah. I had enough with the American BBs. It’s too painful. That’s why I am not so interested on the Rodneys, because of their 36 second expert reloads.
That’s also why I am leaning towards Bismarck, if her reload is 24-26 seconds as it should be the case.
Probably it has to be US vs everyone else at lower tier, but at least given how primitive BVR is at the time its in dogfighting distance and teamkills are not very likely to happen, and at higher tiers there are IFF for each other anyways to know who you are locking on