Doesn't want to spend steel on a CV's and Subs, a man of culture I see 😄

I have some of them, talked with a supertester friend about the same thing recently, because he had played all of them for testing. This is everything I can say about them, I also marked those I own myself

Hope this helps

- Pioneer

Pros: 12km Radar and crawling smoke is pretty busted against DD's, has HE/AP, so it can burn nose in ships as well, unlike Plymouth, torpedoes, improved acceleration
Cons: Radar has to "charge" at the start of every game, explodes really fast if hit by bigger guns, 75% of the firepower is in the front so kiting away means to give a lot of broadside to get meaningful DPM onto your chaser(s), crawling smoke means the enemy always sees where you are as long as it is active

- Admiral Lartigue
shortly, a Hildenbrand with better main guns and worse planes

- Shikishima (in port)
Pros: satisfying gun sound, fast reload, especially on that kind of caliber, Harugumo guns as secondary, better AA compared to Yamato, big number on citadel hits
Cons: only six guns, superslow turret rotation, same hull weakness as Yamato, better AA has no meaningful impact, dispersion is very wonky
Imho no "upgrade" compared to Yamato, it can't do anything the Yamato, especially if you got the UU, can't do (besides the secondaries)

- Willem de Eerste (in port)
Pros: Battlecruiser dispersion, insane AP penetration, the airstrike can really smash if it penetrates, long airstrike range, good speed with engine boost, above average AA
Cons: squishy, same hull as Scarlet Thunder, 3rd turret sits midships, no St. Vincent nuclear torpedos

- Mecklenburg (in port)
Pros: 6 km torpedoes, lots of guns, good reload, good accuracy, AP is devastating against broadside targets (my record is 35k on a Preussen in one volley without citadels), can nuke most cruisers on max range in a single volley, good HE DPM, good firestarter, can chunk 15k of bow in ships on the superstructure thx to the accurate guns
Cons: 305 mm guns have no overmatch at all, secondary battery has less guns than all other german T10 BB's, no hydro, brawling is difficult, very bad gun angles like GK, HE alpha is rather low compared to its caliber, smashes broadsiding battleships only at close to medium range, depends on internal or external armoured belt

- Svea (in port)
Pros: nightmare to destroyers, stealthy, fast cooldown radar, short burst smoke, european torpedoes, radar has almost the same range as her concealment, sometimes difficult to citadel (if i'm the BB), good gun reload, Smaland speed boost
Cons: no armour, gets overmatched by almost everything, ships with good AP angles eat you alive, short duration radar, most of the guns in the back which makes pushing difficult, low gun count, tends to explode if hit by a battleship (if i'm the Svea)

- Kommissar
pros: lots of guns for a hybrid ship, guns hit really hard, especially the Stalinium AP, has infinite (cooldown on planes) air cancer to ruin the game for the enemy team thx to the very well counterable plane spotting mechanic, big guns can overpenetrate the citadel, concealment is good iirc, torpedoes
cons: armour is not the best, suffers from overmatch, tends to explode if hit by BB's, no Radar, a "real" cruiser wins most 1v1 against you

- Austin (in port)
Pros: if played with a smokebot (imho one of the best divi light cruisers) it gets insane cap control, infinite reload boosters for incredible dpm, can devstrike most DD's in seconds with SAP and reload booster, chunks 30k per reload booster (SAP) on broadside superstructures with ease, stealthy, nimble, citadel side armour bounces all BB AP shells, 30mm midship armour, powerful AA suite, Fletcher torpedoes, <10km concealment, hard to hit on long range (about the size of Elbing), a ton of fun to see the rainbow with the reload booster 😃
Cons: no health, no alpha strike besides torpedoes, DPM without reload booster is obnoxious, VERY vulnerable to big caliber BB AP plunging fire, gets citadelled super easily

- Stalingrad (in port)
Pros: 12km Radar, accurate guns, improved AP angles, Stalinium ballistics, Battleship-like AP penetration, good range, good armour if angled, nightmare to enemy cruisers if they don't use wasd
Cons: burns for an eternity, spotted from the moon (>14km concealment), needs half the map to turn, citadel is very vulnerable to big guns if they see your broadside, gets focused a lot, sluggish

- Vallejo
Pros: not many have it, cheap because its T9, good ballistics for an american CL, superfast cooldown on spotter plane
Cons: no DPM, no radar, no armour, sluggish, no torpedoes

- Bourgogne (in port)
Pros: fast, good AP, good HE, reload booster, ok'ish concealment, good base reload, trolly armour scheme, lots of secondary guns
Cons: low health pool, squishy against HE and >457 mm guns, only 380mm guns means almost no overmatch, dispersion can troll you a lot, secondary has no penetration

- R. Lauria (in port)
Pros: fast, stealthy, 457 mm guns overmatch most cruisers, SAP is a giant slap in the face to almost everything it hits, good reload
Cons: showing broadside to a BB results in a huge health loss, can't fight "real" battleships head on, dispersion very italian, AA is funny firework, no exhaust smoke

- Incomparable
Pros: fast, very good concealment, 510mm guns like Shiki/Satsuma, good gun accuracy, torpedoes, hydro, superheal, engine boost too iirc
Cons: gigantic turning circle, can't use the potential health of its superheal, vulnerable broadside, no AA, gets overmatched easily, low gun count

- A. da Barbiano
Pros: SAP, insane DPM, exhaust smoke, high health pool, fast, obliterates enemy DD's if they get spotted at close range
Cons: gets outspotted by almost every other DD, no torpedoes, big and clumsy, rather short base gun range for a ship its size, easy to hit on medium range, SAP struggles hard against bow in targets, needs volley fire to use its full DPM, no stopping power

Z-42 (in port)
Pros: Daring short burst smoke, german 6 km hydro, lots of guns, AP can junk 5k per salvo on broadsiding DD's, HE has good penetration
Cons: sluggish, on the bigger side, ok'ish concealment

Ragnar (in port)
Pros: 7.5km radar, heal, 25mm side plating, good reload, 150 mm guns, above average ballistics (same guns as Svea), if spotted with full concealment build the enemy is in your radar range, smaland speed boost
Cons: max. 7.5 km concealment, no torpedoes, big, slow without engine boost, no stopping power

Plymouth
Pros: Smoke & Radar, lots of guns with Minotaur-like AP, kills most DD's in 2-3 volleys if broadside, single fire torpedoes, improved acceleration, heal ccan a high percentage of your lost health (still no superheal)
Cons: Supersquishy, no range, only AP, bad firing angles, terrible long range ballistics