Cheers all,

To any one who is thinking about starting a US BB crew going down either line, I recomend
leveling your gunners however possible way over your BO level. To be specific, once you
get to your bb3 i recomend having at least level 100 gunners.

Reasons being:
1. As in any other nation/ship, the better your gunners, the more fun you'll have with the
"grind." In fact I'd venture to say that you might even have fun leveling your crew.

2. Regardless weather you decide on North Carolina or South Dakota, unless there is a
spread buff in the near future, odds are that 95% of the time your spread will suck,
massive suckage to be honest. Even if you try the Sevestapool it will suck. (keep in mind
im stating that it will suck with sub 100 gunners.)

3. Both the South Dakota, and the North Carolina are extremely deadly ships, and extremely
fun if you can hit half the crap you shoot at.
- South Dakota is fast, hard to hit, hits hard (if your spread does not suck balls).
- North Carolina is decently fast (42 knts with my crew :S not sure if it can go faster),
Hits hard + with its 45 degree guns you can get massive range boost if played right, and
those same 45 degree guns give you huge dammage outputs.

That being said, I strongly reccomend lvl 100+ gunners for US bb3 and beyond, heck if you
can do it from BB1 on, screw blitz.

I would even recommend this to the extent of saying dont use US as your first crew, it is
difficult to play stupidly, and having another crew to help power level is a huge bonus to
take advantage of.

Hope this helps any one debating or looking for a new opinion on US bb's.

P.S. They are imo one of the most fun ships if your crew and *gunners* are up to the task.


Oh yeah, and NorthCal rocks :D


-> Good point Bleach, the only real reason i said that was if you have a higher crew
first, you could level it using that ship/ nation. ie i leveled my US gunners using my UK
bb crew, first pow, the L1 then L2. :D

-> EasyGreen, your right, every nation it is recomended, however it is not normaly
nessesary to have your gunners between 50-30 lvls higher than your bo, sorry to bore you.

-> Rapter, Noted, I dont notice the engy problem quite as much given my crew is all elite,
and if you look at the speed cap chart, wel i hit the speed cap for eery shp at level, but
i respect and under stand the need for better engies too.

->NinjaFroggie, skill is alway prefered, and just because you played through a crappy
grind that was long given your spread/crew issues, does not make you automaticly skilled,
and just because i forsaw a probem, leveled gunners on different crew, so i can be a
greater asset to my teams, does not make me a noob. try not to be so dam nastalgic and one
demenssional