As if it wasn’t enough, in both cases, their firepower is also a lot superior to that of the previous ship as they keep the same guns (and reload time for Annapolis) but also get an additional 3 barrels. Annapolis’s citadel protection also improves massively compared to Des Moines. For starters, both of them get the alternative firing mode, especially Condé’s one that works incredibly well with her reload booster to deal with the long reload time. Now, the big problem is that while she works well as an improvement over Hindenburg, it isn’t all nice and happy when comparing her to Condé and Annapolis. Compared to Hindenburg, the AP penetration is also much better so punishing cruisers will be easier. Other than that, it really is the classic Hindenburg playstyle of farming damage with the HE until you find a broadside target at which point, you can get the high alpha damage of the AP in action. At that point, you would become the priority target and even with the improved armor, the inability of the ship to properly dodge shots will be your downfall. The additional armor compared to Hindenburg allows you to play somewhat more aggressively but don’t get overconfident in case your battleships decide that it’s better to camp at the back and do nothing. Against battleships, not only does the 50 mm deck helps a lot on its own but on top of that, you will have a decent margin to angle in time. heavy cruisers AP and more specifically, pray that you will never meet an Annapolis. Overall, these firing angles remain fairly manageable unless you are dealing with U.S. Sadly, she suffers from worse firing angles than Hindenburg by 2° at the front and 4° at the back. In essence, it really is a bigger Hindenburg with almost stronger everything with only one substantial downside. She doesn’t have any sort of bull***t alternative firing mode or Combat instruction, doesn’t have very different characteristics from the previous ship, and just sticks to the ol’ reliable.
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