

There's not much to say here so we'll skip the usual format.Ĭharleston has one consumable - a Damage Control Party. – No other ship at its tier does this as well as this ship. – Has a significant advantage over her tier mates. Not terrible, but not terribly good either. Skill Ceiling: Low / MODERATE / High / Extreme Skill Floor: SIMPLE / Casual / Challenging / Difficult It's a premium St.Louis - she's not offering you anything more than you'd find in the tech tree. Very large surface and aerial detection for a tier III cruiser. Terrible anti-aircraft firepower with no flak bursts. Only 1.8 sigma on her guns as opposed to 2.0 for most cruisers. It's a premium St.Louis - one of the most reliable and powerful cruisers, tier for tier, in the game. This is about Charleston, the Noo Bloo Saint Loo.Įnormous hit point pool for a tier III cruiser.Įasily able to shift fire from port to starboard. Don't get me wrong: Oleg still sucks, but at least you're not actively hating yourself after the ride.īut this review isn't about Oleg. Granted Oleg is much better now but that's only because they carpet bombed some key ships at tier III with nerfs to make her more palatable. except they did gift-wrap a Bogatyr in 2017 and it was a steaming pile. She's ostensibly the tier III St.Louis tech tree ship painted blue - about as safe a purchase you could make short of gift-wrapping a Bogatyr. Be aware that her stats may change in the future.Ĭharleston is designed to be a new player's first taste of a premium vessel. Anyway, this should be considered current with patch 0.8.0.3 from the end of February 2019. We're now creeping up on March and stats are changing every other patch. Now compound this with trying to get ME access and it was a bloody mess. However, no one I talked to had any idea how these players were selected because it wasn't just any-old new players that were receiving her. Seriously, this damn thing initially had a limited release-run given away to new players. Lemme tell you, it was a real pain trying to get access to it too. This ship was not provided to me by Wargaming. The following is a review of USS Charleston, the tier III American cruiser.
