So I made the mistake of getting a SS with the US. Stupid, I know, but I figured I already have a Us CV BO and had an alt BO (long-ago planned to be a BB BO) I dusted off and began the grind up the SS line.
Very quickly I realized how awful the SS1 was. So I stuck the crew on an Omaha and leveled up a BO, sonarman, planesman, (higher level) engineer, torpedoman, and took the gunners I had from the original grind up to CV and started AAing.
Shooting down planes was fun, and good expert fuel. The Omaha also has the nice advantage of T slots situated near the stern, which makes for good depth charge runs. I thought getting to SS2 would solve many of the problems, but unfortunately the S-class only seems marginally better than the O-class. So, since I also had bought a Pensacola long ago, I decided to grind on to SS3 and see if the Barracuda was better.
I know that US is obviously not a SS nation and I kind of picked the wrong nation to do this but I'm already knee deep in the grind so I figure I might as well take it all the way. The only problem is I'm growing out of the Omaha (I mean, I still have fun, its just the BO/torpedoman have leveled so high I don't get much xp out of it). I figured I'd transition to the Pensacola but its not as smooth as I thought. Right now I'm trying different combinations (using my primary gunners to AA, using them with 2 3x 14" guns and a BB FCS, etc). The problem is with BB guns their spread is still pretty wide and they don't have the range to exchange fire. As an AA ship it is decent but not as fast, as many barrels, or ASW capable as the Omaha.
So what should I do? Keep grinding the BO/torpedoman on the Pensacola till they hit 61?
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