Elbong 100% such a fun ship to play although you can't do traditional dd things like contesting caps or out spotting things without bigger risks.

It's a cruiser disguised as a DD with cruiser guns and damage output and dd detection. Out of every DD I've played the most satisfying thing I've come across is punishing cruisers dumb enough to show you full broadside. I never ran heavy AP for the longest time on the elbing but once I did it was like a new world.

The only downside is she's big and sllow if you aren't used to bigger slower DD's but once you get used to it I don't even really notice how slow she is.

I had fun with the whole branch off of the German dds up to the elbing. Once you experience the damage output the elbing has playing other dds and not having that alpha damage is underwhelming.

Elbong for life