You don't "have" to sacrifice your crew. you can always by the HQ expansion and be fine
:). And yes i have to admit not to bright of you to get the warspite when you don't have
the crew AND are at max crew lol but we all make mistakes

i got my Warspite today but i couldn't use it due to:
i don't have any UK crew <----=stupid
i don't have sufficient space of sailor for UK BB crew <---= more stupid

but i am planning to sacrifice some crew and ship to give space for them :))

so any1 can tell me:
how many gun both R and T slot space
what is max displacement
how many sailor crew (on ship and on the support slot)

thanks :))

Its missing a support slot but aside from that it is fine

I agree with Storm. When i played it yesterday it performed beautifully. The only
problem I find with it is the Displacement.With my 120 crew I can't mount AA and
barely any buldge(22 iirc). So enjoy it while your crew is slim.

Played with the ship today.

With 4 very good level 89 engineers, the ship caps at 39 knots at max displacement, and
can hit 40 knots at about 2200 under max displacement. The CA Engine 2 (Heavy) seems to
give the best speed and overheat for the weight.

Practical gunsets are 15"/42 Mk III N (L's have only 2 binds as noted) and 16"/45 Mk 1 L.
With the 15" guns, you have plenty of displacement for armor and AA armament. With the
16", you're basically unarmored and have to run without AA guns. Since the ten T slots
with 77 space are awesome, I was loathe not to fill them with RP10 N guns for AA. Which
left the 16" option off the table. (And if I'm gonna leave off a turret, I might as well
use 8 longer ranged guns than 9 shorter ones.)

And I can't see how you'd squeeze the 14" quads on there due to the weight unless you use
only 3 turrets.

So... smaller Hood with great AA. And if stripped down, 12 barrels of 16" doom.

My suggestion to improve the ship would be to increase the R slot size to match the Hood
and give it a bit more usable displacement so you could mount the 16" mkI L triples with
armor or AA.

pow? lol, i find sw 16" trips nelly performs way better than pow

Hm I got this one, and MY OPINION is Warspite maybe better than the Nelson but cant
compare with a POW (POW has much more speeds, DP and displacements, if you gonna face a
POW just wish full hit it or ready to meet the fishes). Currently I cant fix
any armor on Warspite (both x4 quads N and x4 T16'' L Nelly guns - i think no point to use
dual 15'' if just have same range with T16'' right?). I know it has 1 more gun slots and
my crews are fat (10x) and also have not tried the 2 front guns only options (but dont
think will try look really stupid) but whatever Warspite and (Maryland also) both easily
be sunk when facing a BB4 or BB5.

Actually, there is a difference.

And that is 18,92 vs 17,92 reload time.
But still imho, it's better to use N gun, as then you can load unlimited ammo, while
sacrificing just 5% of reload time.

I have just checked it and results are:

Dual 15" MK III N/L have same range as L1 Triple 16" MK IV L(18,92 reload time)

A little bit less damage, but still pretty nice.

@ nitroi

ur absolutly correct . they do have same range. this is very confusing, then u ask urself why
are the Ls biger /heavier

thx megadone nice comments i will keep that in mind so i wont suck as a bb 5 .