Regular cruisers do not have the staying power to last in those high powered games with all those 406mm, 420mm, 430mm, 457mm, 460mm, 510mm AP shells flying all around. They're far superior and better able to deal with the reality of High Tier games being filled with more and more Battleships that can ding stuff at range compared to Mid Tiers, compared to the Tech Tree Cruisers like Dmitri Donskoi, Buffalo, Seattle, etc that they effectively have replaced. Alaska, Kronshtadt, Siegfried, Agir, even Azuma. In Tier IX, Super Cruisers are already above and beyond better than Tech Tree Cruisers there. It's wild.Īs much as I would like my Kronshtadt's gunnery to be more reliable, I would not ask for those buffs. Kronshtadt's wild shells are the only thing bad about her. People say Roma has awful vertical dispersion, BUT KRON. Kron is very bleh compared to Riga too, I suppose.

Riga also gets cruiser fire duration instead of BB fire duration and much better concealment (best is same as radar range at 12 km IIRC, while Kron's bottoms out at 14.1). Riga is much more nimble, is a much smaller target, has faster firing guns, and the lower penetration isn't that relevant at closer ranges or any significant angle since Kron doesn't usually end up citting anything Riga wouldn't cit anyway. didn't power creep the WZ-120 and 121 at all in World of Tanks because they're in different nations (Soviet and Chinese) despite both being 122mm-armed Soviet-style medium tanks-the 430U just has better armor, camo (IIRC) and bit better gun depression i.e.

Comparing tier IX Kronstadt to tier X Gouden Leeuw seems like an odd choice, as the two ships are not only different tiers, but also very different in regards to their strengths, weaknesses, and play styles.Īny argument that Kronstadt has been power crept and needs buffs should be based on comparisons to her tier IX CB contemporaries (ships like Siegfried, Agir, Azuma, Carnot, etc) or even tier IX cruisers in general with which she shares MM (Riga, for example, is the same tier, Soviet, and more similar in role/play style than any Dutch ship) rather than a tier X ship from another nation.īy your logic, just because a ship better in every way was introduced in another line, there is no power creep because it's another nation.īy this logic, Object 430 and later after an update the Obj 430U.

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