User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-27797576-20150629180203/@comment-27797576-20150629190420

The Baltimore is amazing. I can't tell with Nevada yet, it's a bit too early to tell(may have maxxed weapons, but it only has a .1 in belt atm, 0 deck). The Baltimore though is amazing, espially with the guns you'd see on an IRL one, IG has a WHOPPING 280 range roughly, 1100-1200 damage, and a 10.5 second reload. I recommend having secondaries, as the 2x5"/38 will litteraly tear apart any destroyer that happens to get in range, and the main battery is just a tad slow DPM wise against destroyers, plus the 5" guns work a lot better with auto fire. In general, auto fire is just a bit uncouaperative with the 8" guns, and you have to aim shorter to get a hit at speed, low enough auto-fire doesn't work at all. I tried to have mine with realism, so I put 6in across the whole belt, then 2.5/3/2.5in for the deck. Even with all that weight, it still pulls 33.3kts