A St.Louis doing what it dose best..

Large Protected Cruiser USS St. Louis (C-20)

Ordered: 1900. Laid Down: 1902. Launched: 1905. Commissioned 1906.
Reclassified as CA-18 in 1920. Decommissioned 1922. Struck 1930.

Lead ship of her class of three (St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Charleston)
Intended to be a "Semi-armored cruiser" in the spirit of an enlarged USS Olympia.
Original armaments:
14 x 6"/50 guns
18 x 3 inch guns
12 x 3 pounders
4 x 1 pounders
8 x 1 pounder Rapid Fire guns
10 x .30 caliber

Armor:

4" belt
2-3" deck
2-4" gun protection
3-5" Conning Tower

USS Milwaukee (C-21) was wrecked following being stranded in 1917 of the coast of California during salvage operations of submarine H-3.

USS Charleston (C-22/CA-19)Decommissioned in 1923 and sold in 1930

These ships were used as submarine tenders around 1916.

We need guns. Lots of guns.

Has she become part Abyssal?

Everyone knows what does it mean if a St.Louis is in a tier 3 battle.

lookingfrank said:

Everyone knows what does it mean if a St.Louis is in a tier 3 battle.

why back in the alpha days, St.Louis was capable killing a Fuso (i'm not kidding)

akh101 said:

why back in the alpha days, St.Louis was capable killing a Fuso (i'm not kidding)

Even now St.Louis could handle Furutaka in close quarter battle (if Furutaka doesn't use torpedoes.)

lookingfrank said:

Even now St.Louis could handle Furutaka in close quarter battle (if Furutaka doesn't use torpedoes.)

St.Louis is still the monster of tier III

I wonder, if WG ever ends up nerfing the St. Louis, how would they do so?

Blue_Stuff said:

I wonder, if WG ever ends up nerfing the St. Louis, how would they do so?

Either a nerf to the reload time of the guns or to the rudder shift times.

Blue_Stuff said:

I wonder, if WG ever ends up nerfing the St. Louis, how would they do so?

I would think of it as a nerf to the effectiveness of HE combined with a buff to the accuracy of BB guns.

XiongMao said:

Either a nerf to the reload time of the guns or to the rudder shift times.

I'd go with debuffing the guns. Her speed is already painfully slow as it is -- barely 20kts, slower than most battleships.

Blue_Stuff said:

I wonder, if WG ever ends up nerfing the St. Louis, how would they do so?

Her turn rate is already pathetic and she struggles to dodge higher tier torps, a bit more would render her completely useless at bottom tier, as would nerfing her gun pen a bit.