First, let me preface this post by saying that I love this game. I've always been a fan of old naval battles, and having a game like this is truly awesome.
That aside, when I was leveling my first crew (US), I was so excited to get into a battleship that I could hardly stand it. Once I did, I found that the best thing about it is hearing my guns go BA-BOOM! I was originally on the AK line, and with my at- level crew, my spread was so horrible (even with all experts and 100 vets on my gunners) that I couldn't hit a damn thing. In blitz games, I was nothing but a big target. In GB games, I'd be 1-2 shotted from god knows where every game. I know the main role of the AK should be AA support, but due to me being a moron with my AA gunners I got when I started (changed them to 2nd AA first chance I got), I have no useable AA gunners. Then there is the XP. When I was in my Baltimore, I was earning 15k+ XP in blitz games per win. In my AK, win or lose, no matter how much damage I did or how many ships I sank, I never broke 8k. I tried switching back to the Baltimore, and although my spread was amazing, I never got as much XP as I did before I got my AK. I got 2 ship tree resets from the Thanksgiving event, and thought that I'd try switching things up a little. I reset my ship tree and went with the Nevada. At least I could switch back if I hated it. I like the range on the Nevada a lot better than the Alaska, but I still have all of the same problems. Horrible spread (although not AS bad), crap for XP win or lose regardless of how much damage I do, I still get creamed in GB games before I can even see who's shooting at me, and to top it off, the NV is ungodly slow. I only have one 1st Engineer, and my max speed is a whopping 32 knots on OH. I'm raising a second Engineer and a pair of reload gunners for my AA, but they have so long to go before they're useful that I wonder if it's even worth it. I tried putting some armor on it, and have 4" of deck armor, which apparently does absolutely nothing but slow me down even more. Getting such crappy XP and creds in game, I don't have money to buy another engineer or any AA gunners, much less decent ones. I guess my main question is this: WTF is a BB1 good for except giving everyone ELSE XP? I've read guides and tried to figure out how to switch up my game to do better, but nothing works. The highlight of my time in a BB is scoring 15k damage on a SoDak before I was pulverized by shots that I don't even know where they came from. How can I make this fun and start gaining XP again?
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