Doing Spain 1900 start now that I have some experience. >Protip: dont build battleships, Just 2 heavy cruisers and screen them with everything else>when Battle Cruisers are available use them to support your Heavy Cruisers so they dont get cut from the battle
wrecking Italy
I'll have to dig up my Spanish meme CA from 1890 back when I was on a kick of using 7" guns for the lulz. I think I had 14 of them in mixed turrets and casements. Big CAs are so good early on, you can basically do anything with them and still wreck the AI
>>2416485I like using them as a proto-battlecruiser.
Protip: the secret to doing well with 1890 Spain/China is small torpedo cruisers
>>2416485I do a lot of 1890 starts, but early on I use the big CAs as brawlers, backed up by >>2416553 affordable CLs with loads of torps and small guns. Just overwhelm anything with massed firepower then finish with torps. I rarely put big guns on them outside of roleplaying, a battery of 6-5-4 is perfect. Here's some of my 7" ships though, it is a useless gun, worse than a 6" in every way, but fun to work around.
This is the ideal predread, whether you like it or not
>>2418614Launched 1897Admittedly she's been pretty obsolete since about '45 but still a useful raiderMade another with 20" guns in 1932. Actually pretty fantastic, had a quick but brutal career slapping the shit out of American BBs and BCs until 2/3 of my battlefleet got wiped out invading Cuba
Why is spain so fucking poor
