User blog comment:Void Samukai/Tales of the Extremely Retarded Seas/@comment-24642271-20160815112036

A while since I did anything here, but I thought I do a review on one the best ships in the game: the Black Skull

For the cost of 1425 gold, this sailing ship has much potential for grinding. At 6 stars it has much competition such as Enterprise, Essex, Longbeach and Kirov. However, this ship is unique in its feature to turn invisible for a short period of time. This can be useful for passing by boss ships you dont have to engage so you can go fight other ships undamaged. It also can only use HE rounds. But it has a lot of them, though they are all on the broadside of the ship, with a few exeptions. The guns are powerful, do repectable damage but are dirt cheap to use. One gun costs only half of the guns on the Montana to use. This means you can spam these guns nonstop and still not pay a massive bill. Nice eh? However the shells take a while to get to the target and are generally inaccurate. But with so many shots fired at once, it doesnt usually matter.

In terms of other weapons, she can also equip high damage and cheap autocannons. These do respectable damage but are sh!te against aircraft. You will find that aircraft will cause you problems in the longrun. She also has many smaller guns that can be used to suppliment the main guns well. Again, high damage for low cost.

She carries no aircraft or missiles, but she does carry a lot of torpedoes. These torpedoes are average in terms of damage, cost and numbers. Nothing too important to write home here...except that because you dont have to pay such a bill for using guns, you can use that money on high damage torps. Neat as hell XD

In terms of speed, turning and armour, she is pretty fast and can take a beating. Her turning however is not the best, but it is way better than the Enterprise and Essex. Overall, she's pretty good in that regard.

Overall: The Black Skull is a fun ship that is extremely cost effective for her firepower and can take on many foes and those she cannot she can just escape. Her weaknesses is mostly aircraft as she cannot reliably shoot them down and slow shells. However, her strenghts include stealth, HE rounds that do repectable damage and cost very little and she has lots of them.

Final score: 9/10

Recommend it: HELL YEAH XD