Second: DO NOT engage a Marat/Poltava with a Zara class.
As a general rule of thumb, battleships require the coordination of multiple CAs to bring down unless it’s a poorly armored one like the NoDak, Nassau class or most of the low tier british battlecruisers. And even then I’d recommend help from a few allies.
The only cruiser I’d even think about engaging a battleship with in general is the Graf Spee solely due to the 28.3s actually having the punch to do so.
Alternatively, use japanese DDs and CLs/CAs and spam Type 93s
It really does suck for cruisers, especially cause late war cruisers were some of the most fun ships to play.
Back in update La Royale, they changed the damage models of battleships by moving their crew compartment inside the citadel (which is kind of nonsensical). Even if you can penetrate their citadel, the resulting damage is oftentimes very low. This made battleship survivability skyrocket, as they now have very little exposed crew for cruises to take out.
This is part of why destroyers vs cruisers is a little more fair than cruises vs battleships, since cruisers still have exposed crew, they can actually be reliably damaged by smaller guns, but the same doesn’t apply for battleships.
Getting stock AP should have been a thing from the very start. It’s completely ridiculous that it isn’t the case. I don’t know of any naval game that does this.
Imagine the outrage if they removed stock AP for tanks and told the players to grind the AP by destroying SPAAs and light tanks with HE.
Or imagine if they removed stock bombs from bombers and told the players to grind for those by destroying ground targets with their defensive gunners.
But I guess the community goodwill that they would get back by giving stock AP can’t be quantified in Golden Eagles so they won’t do it.
With the last Patch Germany got a new Destroyer with fast firing 12,7mm double turrets at 5.3 or something. Sadly no armor piercing shells. Pretty dull addition, at this BR you can’t do alot with just HE. Doesn’t make alot sense. Then why adding it? You’re shooting and shooting and shooting and can’t even incap enemy gun turrets without pen. Shooting for no effect.
I am driven away by rewards like this. 7+ hours with games like this to spade it,3 times more for Bismarck. So in theory i would need 28 hours atleast of games like that to grind a single ship like Sachsen or Bismarck. Which is absolutely terrible. And this was with premium account and 30% RP booster
