User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-24903406-20160128180935/@comment-27822411-20160129214321

The ships are fun to play

The Bogatyr class armoured cruiser is rather slow and armour is average, but her firepower is great. You can equip a lot of 6inch or later 8inch guns onto her with 2 centraline turrets and a lot of casemate mounts. She also has a healthy secondary armament, if you need the extra firepower against submarines. I had some great games in it. Think of it as kinda like what they say about the St Louis of WoWS: slow, but made out of guns.

The Andrei Pervozvanny class predreadnought is also rather good. She again is slow, but she can tank quite a few hits and her main gun firepower is awesome. Keep her long enough, or grind the Bogatyr to a certain level, and you can get the reason why you should get her: triple 12inch guns. This gives her quite the firepower against other predreads and cruuisers. Her secondaries are nice, with four of them able to mount twin 8inch guns. This adds that exra anti-ship force while you wait for your main guns to reload.

Overal, both ships are slow with average or slighty above average tankiness, but the firepower is great and can get you some kills at the lower levels. I've had great games in both ships, and if equipted right, so can you.