The two Nelson ships just never do real damage for their BR. Everything at their own BR guts the Nelsons turrets and their general armour, but the nelson struggles with Ise, Gneisenau, even downtiers like izmail and the other flat soviet ships. It guts battlecruisers (except gneisenau because it’s an outright pay-to-win at 7.7BR) but everything else it just doesn’t hurt them.
And then the Nelsons die to the same thing every time: three compartments go black and it dies to losing unsinkability. I almost never manage to cause the same effect in other ships, the Nelson can rarely even make one or two compartments turn black in other ships, it relies on extremely lucky ammo-detonations, not to mention it rarely causes flooding but always seems to suffer intense flooding itself.
Wtf am I doing wrong? I use my secondaries on their bridge to inflict crew losses, I aim for barbettes and below turrets with my main guns. Every time it’s clear I’m doing a third of the damage everyone else does in these ships.
Gniesau is a tricky kill but its funny seeing them so desperate to dance to avoid your salvos. I have been using the nelson for a bit , You die to unsinkability cause you cant be ammoracked easily. Reload speed leaves allot to be desired but i find it fun ship. Tho i will say i main naval in arcade. Yes you have an odd match where your not in the top 3 , but can be rare
Naval RP grind is a super-slog even by most WT standards so I sold an event vehicle and grabbed the Nelson. Either way, WT does not prep you in the slightest for learning how it works.
Sure I get that it’s tough to ammorack a Nelson but no one else seems to go down that way either. Like I’ve had matches where I spend 10 minutes slamming a Gneisenau and it seems like its hull is perfectly fine at the end, it just finally goes down to an ammo rack + crew and that’s if you get lucky and hit the barbette the entire time
I don’t want to try naval EC just to see a basically-fictional Soyuz ban my Nelson from playing due to the BR compression being so bad it’s like Panthers vs Leopard 2s
Generally I stick to arcade because I’m still struggling with doing the damage it feels like others are able to do with equivalent ships.
Its still doesnt have the correct reload speed. It should be 30 seconds aced. But Gaijin just blatantly ignored that. Im just grateful Lion will have a 30 second reload.
The Nelson are horribly implemented, the rear turret’s firing angle is insane and forces you to broadside even when it’s blatantly in the clear otherwise.
Back on topic, I’m playing the Nelson right now and it’s just never getting critical damage on anything. Ever. Everyone around me is getting kills and my Nelson loses to my 7.0 and 7.3 downtiers that always reliably destroy my guns from the front.
