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Review: Montecuccoli class cruiser
And I thought the last one was excellent: Seaman Void Samukai 2015

The Montecuccoli class cruiser is an Italian light cruiser. He is level 17 and directly success the Capitani Romani class cruiser. The Romani is well known for her high speed, fast firing guns and decent armour. Montecuccoli takes all these points and improves them.


 * 1) She can mount triple 5.1 guns that compromise range and damage for the same high rate of fire. You can also mount 2 triple and 2 twin 6 inch guns, though they are much heavier and have an 8 second reload time.


 * 1) Without armour or guns, she can good up to 51 knots. That is faster than many destroyers. With guns and armour, she will still maintain full loaded 31 knots. And that is after I added plenty of armour!


 * 1) For a top speed of 36 knots, the armour layout is 3/5/4.5 deck and7/8/6.5 belt armour. But you could armour her more, with 6 deck and 10 inch belt armour with thin ends for 34 knots. This is comparable to many high tier cruisers.


 * 1) She can mount up to 5 secondary mounts, which is a big change from the none of the Romani class. But 4 of them could be use for torpedo tubes, if you so desire. For a torpedo heavy layout, have 4 torpedo tubes, but leave the last secondary blank. For a balance layout, have 2 torps and 3 secondaries guns.

Overall, this is a very well balanced cruiser that is just in my view superior to the Capitani Romani class in many ways. It has many great points that it carries from it's predecessor. The only bad thing is that her secondary layout is limiting, but with the fast firing guns this isn't a big problem.

If you are grinding for the Zara or Trento, get this cruiser as soon as possible. It will make the grind a whole lot easier.