User blog comment:Void Samukai/Worst Heavy Cruiser WW2/@comment-27797576-20151021011731

For best WWII cruiser... Baltimore, hands down.

For worst... That's kinda hard. I will say, though, the Trento class were rather useless during the war. All of them were sunk before the end of the war, many to aircraft and surface engagements. Their AA was completely lacking for a cruiser of that time, even a german torpedo boat would be appaled by the lack of AA the italians had. And that's saying something. The gear alone had the AA of 5 italy's heavy cruisers, and more than the litterio class battleship. Then again, the Trento was also designed to be close to shore... Well, for what the itlanians designed it, they would fit the bill. But italy's aircraft were no match for the allies... Don't you think they would have AA JUST in case all their aircraft were inferior to the enemy?

Though, for worst overall, it would have to go to the russian heavy cruisers, in general. They did litteraly nothing in the war, their structure was often so un-enforced that the superstructure was damaged by the batteries firing, often never went as fast as they could have, and often lacked armor and AA until after the war.