Well i cant really recommend the Hood to you but its a ship that might get a upgrade soon.

On testserver it has -1turning compared to normal Hood and equal gunspace. It has +1 supportslot, so 5 on ship and 8 support slots. Its faster then the normal Hood and has a bit more DP. With normal Hood guns (15inch dual Ls) it goes something around 26/44-27/45, with Nelly trips it goes 25/42. the Vaillant (QE like EBB) seems to be a equal or even better choice. Much smaller hitbox equal gunspace but 1 less supportslot and i dont know about speed. 

Thanks for the answere Nlbor. Sounds like a good ship to train up some extra support with the extra slot and the lower required level, so i might still go for it

Just beware of it's size, the hitbox is a disadvantage that many players dislike about the hood.

Thank you  for the info.......I got the Hood in the event, I was working up a crew on that line anyway, but now I can use Nelson and the Hood.

I've been thinking about this some more. Am I still gonna use the e-hood after i hit lvl 89 and can use say the L1 with BB4 range. If not, then i could probably have more use for 380 olives than a ship that is only useful for 3 levels?

with the lvl 82 15 Ls and .2 belt and 40 bulge.. i made 45 on my EBB valiant. that was with 4 bve +12 engies so i think it would go faster with more engies

I wanted to get the next level up UK EBB. However having read the reviews and given my BO is now nearly 89, I will stick with my Valiant. It can use exactly the same guns and is harder to hit. I was hoping for something with a little more range.