kinda good advice u guys gave... i don;t have any cuz i'm noob too... to sum up what u guy
says, will it better to have all crew elited from BO to support crew rather than having
combination of elites for main crew and +12 for support crew?

sorry to barging into other ppl forum... was thinking that this should help both
parties... and i also think that goldman232 bb crew setting is good...

Hi,


I use on my UK BB crew currently at lvl 111.

All Elites

1 x Bo
2 X Acc Gunners
6 x Engine
3 x Repair
1 X Restore
1 x Scout

My crew all have full vets and experts and ive found this to be very reliable on all BB's
on the Uk line, having the 6 engines gives me a nice overheat time with a very quick
repair rate to overheat again, my repair rate is capped now dont think it will get any
faster then it already is.

One thing to keep in mind is the restore, many people say after your crew hit 900 sd
without a restore he is useless, infact to mine and my friends testings, we found that
even after a crew hit sd cap having a restore on the ship does help take that little
more damage within the first hits, enough so that i can escape being sunk after
getting hit from all over where if he was not on i would have been sunk.

I guess the restore situation is to manys own opinion but i find he helps not only in
that area but with rep / eng also.

I also went down both ship lines with 2 different Bo's, got to lvl 40 and gave up with
getting fed up of the grind, i found that my supports (all of them) are only 7 lvls
behind my bo with my gunners being 2 lvls above my bo, all seem to be getting
closer to being at same lvl as you go from lvl 103 - 120, i estimate when i hit 120 with
my Bo i will be only 1 maybe 2 lvls behind with my supports to run the QV.

Hope this helps

Good luck

You all missed Richards point.
Using elite repairers (3 or especially with2 ) you'll only repair cap if all sailors are
high or very high on vets AND have a high repair stat ( 10 at the very least, 11+
average definately).
That's why for a pro BB crew any elite sailor but repairers are an utter fail.

Do not put a Seaman on a BB. For UK go with a 6/4 split 6 engies 4 reps 2 gunners 1
scout, and 2 BO's. 2 BO's will help keep your crew above level and also, it gives you
the oppurtunity to run both of the UK BB4's which both are needless to say kick***

secondary gunners are an option you might want to look into.

having secondary guns to shoot at enemy ships while your big guns reload (11-15
seconds for your BB1 guns. especially if you're going accuracy gunners instead of
reload gunners), or if you're wanting to have some AA guns to protect yourself from
bombers, or even, heaven forbid, some torp launchers.

I use (or will use)

2 Gunners
5 Engies
1 Scout
1 Seaman
4 Reps

Yes everything is Elite.

@Tom: You make a valid point. The UK bonus to rep and rest would help your supports get
that extra needed boost for the elite sailors. I guess the only other point is whether or
not you subscribe to the phantom SD theory. Something to consider.

If any nation makes sense to go all elite it is UK because you can repair cap your
crew, assuming your main concern is performance at BB5-6.

As Rich said, elite repairs are the way to go because the engine stat doesn't work
on reps and your restore will cap early. Depending on how many vets you put on
your reps, you need two or three elites to hit the cap.

Since you have 7-8 spots left, your only concern is to get the best engineers you
can. So why wouldn't you want elite engineers. If your crew is already at the repair
cap, a 13engine/9repair sailor is better than a 12engine/12repair sailor.

My L2 setup is 1 elite rep BO, Scout, 2 Elite Rld Main gunners, 2 Elite Rld AA gunners
(late classed), 3 elite reps, 7 elite engines. This gives me a lot of flexibilty and the
AA gunners are nice in the BW fest that is the Kaiser server.

Another factor to consider is that elites are valuable. You can buy them for around
5mil credits at lvl 12 and by the time they are lvl 120 they will be worth considerably
more than +12s.

You don't need to have all elites, but for a UK crew they certainly arent worse.

Only repair EBVE is worth, engie Ellite are complete fail. Get 12/10 engie 12/11 or anything,
else which is good.