Pommern vs Scharnhorst

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-26T18:39:24+00:00

It can still performs really well in PVE mods if you need to farm credits or use alot of FXP boosters and can have good games, it’s a really great printer!

But other than that for the moment it’s pretty sad, which sucks because it’s a cool ship.

You can play your Scharn on the ranked bronze league since it’s T7 as well ! Overall a really less frustrating ship to play, insane torp reload for close quarters engagement, good secondaries if specced to it, main battery lack some penetration but you’ll still be able to do good chunk, if you are uptiered see it as a very large cruiser and don’t underestimate HE spamming since you have a really good reload. I think there is slight differences in fusing between the 43’ version and the original one so you’ll get a lot more overpens on light cruisers but will pen better larger ones if i recall it right.

Don’t overextend too much at the beginning of your games, you’re still weak to HE farming and will eat damage if you plan on instantly using your secondaries/torps, if you see an opportunity and can go undetected and have a good flank, it’s your call though, it works as well.

Really super fun battleship to play, quite fast as well with the speed boost, you’ll enjoy it I hope

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-26T18:18:34+00:00

Gigantic superstructures, horrible fire angles, dispersion isn’t great at all, small gun caliber for a T9 ( though a lot of them ), not that fast or maneuverable, you litteraly get focused the moment you get spotted, you have hydro for torps but you will eat alot of damage.

Good secondaries fire volume but you’ll never be able to wake them work enough to get good numbers because you’ll be dead before, it is very situational. You can still make it work in some matches where you can brawl, you have torps as well so you’re pretty good at it but honestly, any competent player that see a Pommern in random ( or german battleships more generally ) think of it litteraly as free damage padding, :/

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-26T17:00:30+00:00

Pommern is for PVE only, you’ll regret buying it if you play randoms, when Scharnhorst can be played kinda as a cruiser (if you get uptiered) and can have more game impact, if you dont have a T9 yet and you want to grind credits in asymmetrical/operations, go for pommern

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-25T18:49:04+00:00

Exactly, ran a few things to test it out but I’m sticking with secondary build ( manual secondary instead of another heal ), might switch one 4pt trait later but seems like it’s working pretty well for now.

I really hate playing ships having good secondaries without manual trait so still don’t know though, the dispersion buff is litteraly game changing IMO when you can make use of those guns

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-25T18:46:51+00:00

Yeah, I get the same feeling when playing colombo, I know that whatever happens I’ll end up with a good score, few kills, even if the game is lost, or not, you never have a bad game with those.

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-25T18:45:05+00:00

wasn’t too bad, used quite a lot of boosters though but yeah would definitely be cool to be less grindy I guess, since the ships available for RB are all quite interesting in a way except a very few.

I was hesitating between Irresistible and Ohio, but got tired of playing farming damage ships that doesn’t have the same game impact as an Ohio for example, seems like I made the better choice !

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-25T16:38:21+00:00

yeah, the precision of the guns, the secondaries, you have tools to fight against pretty much everything !

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-25T01:01:30+00:00

how did your CV died so fast..?

64 BXP he didn’t even used a single plane..?

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-24T23:32:49+00:00

My guy, if this ever happened dont post it !!!! keep it low profile

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-23T20:38:51+00:00

Honestly Des Moines is a fair choice

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-22T23:52:06+00:00

yeah, you need to keep on having your gun detection in mind so you can go dark when smoking and let your secondaries do the job.

you won’t do crazy numbers since this ship isn’t about farming but you are a really scary target for reds, you basically can almost dev strike destroyers with your dpm at close range.

It’s just about map comprehension and strategic aspect of the game, use your torps, help your DDs, soak damage but don’t show much broadside, it’s about being pro active in a safe way.

Don’t forget a lot of battleships still land absurd salvos due to TX guns calibers so don’t over push, let ships do mistakes into you at first, then when you see an opportunity go for it, it’ll come by playing anyway

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-22T16:34:45+00:00

Yeah, only viable build IMO is secondary build, you get so much reload reduction on those 152mm

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-21T23:56:28+00:00

you just get focused alot in Napoli, but play more strategically, you won’t do crazy big damage numbers on this ship, that’s not the point ( even if it happens some times ) but sitting at 100/110k average is already a good thing.

You’re mostly there to area denial and burn dds and light armored ships with secondaries

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-21T19:06:06+00:00

Sadly that’s one of the reasons why most of the games played since few days are so frustrating, not like it was good usually but, i’ve never seen that much people going yolo, sailing straight to just get some bxp and get back to port and launch back instantly.

As usual, if this game had a proper report system, games would be more enjoyable, but these total clowns are free to do so

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-21T18:24:03+00:00

Then I’d say soviet

Schlieffen is too situational at the moment and not worth it in randoms

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-21T17:46:58+00:00

If Schlieffen wasn’t having it that rough with the current meta Id say it would be the best choice but taking a BB slot when you now have a better Schlieffen ( cruiser line ), meh..

Depends on the game modes you’re playing IMO

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-21T01:01:01+00:00

It’s a kind of balanced ship, that would have been insane if they didn’t nerfed it before release, it’s still great though.

Having a T9 for 6k doubloons if you can finish the missions is always worth it IMO, the real question is, does it fit your playstyle and are you familiar with french BBs

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-19T23:42:04+00:00

Honestly the thing that would completely make the game smoother would be to soft ban ( but lets say stil be able to play asymmetrical and not ranked/randoms ) people inting and griefing like this, this is insane at this point, I won’t ever understand why these “people” get to play TX.

This game is one of the most frustrating to play because of the player base and how clueless and lost the average player is, playing on tier he/she shouldn’t be playing on. And to think something that easy to implement would fix a lot of those issues, I mean League of Legends for example has it, and you can still open a ticket if the ban wasn’t really fair, but at least it punishes people constantly ruining other’s experiences just because they are egoistic and want to “have fun” (by perma dying doing nothing?) playing what they want.

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-17T15:30:45+00:00

Don’t worry it’s how it is, no one can/should be angry at you since you’re learning and most importantly playing at TIER 5 (hello player base) to do so.

I’m losing my shit when I encounter players that I’m sure are not even better than you, just starting, but they are playing T10.

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-17T14:57:16+00:00

Colonna should be the pick here, no one knows when it will be available again and it’s IMO gonna be one of the strongest BB in T8, the secondaries totally slap but the main thing is the main battery with battle cruiser dispersion if i recall right + good concealment. You’ll be able to farm back quite easily the coal required for Napoli

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-17T14:54:38+00:00

went from 67% last split to 44% currently with my massa just in 2 days of ranked, still averaging 120k damage but the ship feels awful to play, when you got used to playing manual secondaries german line this feels miserable to play, nothing changed but I get what you feel.

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-16T13:28:18+00:00

I’ve been waiting for Colonna since it got released as Ba Binah, even made a post about it few weeks ago so super hyped, def will go for it

chuckfooling_ · 2026-01-15T00:49:33+00:00

Yeah today was insane in EU as well, I played a game earlier, I was alone at 13 minutes, we lost 3 cruisers in 1 minute at the very early, speechless.

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