Soviet CA Petropavlovsk line - Standard build
- Petropavlovsk branch are tanky cruisers with very strong AP shells that can even citadel BBs at mid range. Strong armor and radar rounds out her versatile kit, but they suffer from poor maneuverability, lackluster HE, and bad long range accuracy
- This build also applies to most Large Cruisers (Cruisers with big guns of 283mm or larger) which have similar characteristics across the board (great ranged firepower, strong AP shells, high survivability).
- Do note that the German battlecruisers can’t mount radar mod and should mount ERP or hydro mod instead.
- Znamensky is a good captain on Soviet battlecruisers because of the improved GtG skill. USN battlecruisers should be using one of the Doe brothers or Halsey as their captain due to greatly benefiting from improved EL and GtG.
- Take Heavy AP over SI if you are willing to trade some survivability for even better AP
- Due to how range mod interacts with Petro’s unique dispersion curve, it significantly delays the vertical dispersion penalty and is worth taking. Reload mod is perfectly fine as well if you are constantly fighting below 10km
- Applies to Riga, Kronshtadt, Petropavlovsk, Stalingrad, Novosibirsk, Graf Spee, Schill, Siegfried, Ägir, Congress, Alaska and Puerto Rico.