I don't think this ship benefits a lot from CE - due to the smoke and the fact it fires constantly ( or should be firing constantly ). I was top XP for our team, whcih was primarily based on doing damage, not kills or caps ( I did get 13 defense ribbons though ). It raises the value of an already good ship by a WIDE amount. This was the type of match where I would have done 75-80k normally, but with more fires ( I had DE previously for a 15% fire chance - now 9%). I switched to AP against tier 7 cruisers for citadels ( landed 4 ), but would have stuck with all HE if it was a tier 10 match I think.

The HE was doing consistent damage against the decks and super structure of tier 8 ( Bismarck ) and Tier 9 ( Izumo, Missouri ) battleships. Took out my Kutuzov with a 14 point Capt, Tier 1 Expert Loader ( just to see how it worked ), Tier 2 SSE ( bigger smoke ), Tier 3 Superintendent, Tier 4 IFHE and Tier 4 CE.ġ14k damage, 1 kill: 45k direct HE, 24k AP, 21k torps, 1500 secondary and 23k fire from 9 fires.

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