1) These EBB are not be-all-end-all ships. They are not even PBB caliber ships. That being the case, don't think that you'll be coming back to kick butt in them once your crew has moved 20+levels beyond. I just don't see it happening because they aren't worth it (unlike a PBB).
2) If you aren't going to use them (ie., you currently run a BB3 or BB4 with good crew at those levels), why bother getting them at all? I didn't bother with the KM EBB because I already have access to both Gneisenau and OPro lines and have BB5. I DID get the Resolution because my UK crew is around those levels and can actually gain some benefits from using it.
If your only option appears to be the crappy U.S. EBB, pick another nation and start a new crew. That way they'll have the EBB waiting for them when they get there.
Even if you blow it off and take no EBB, you aren't missing much at all. The upgrades are minor and do not make a vast difference in game play (possible exception being Haruna with EBB1 guns...).
It's just not that big a deal.
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