With Hydro, you can charge camping DDs, do your 'job' as a CL by screening the BB from DDs and also spot torpedoes (preventive measure against damage for yourself and teammates). Load your premium repair party, and tack on HydroAcoustic Search. For modules, MAM1 for turret survival, MB Accuracy mod for landing more shells, prevention module against fire, and rudder shift. With these four starter skills, it's up to you to either go Manual AA as another 4th tier (you'll benefit more from MAA than AFT in AA regards) or go for 5 point skill in Concealment Expert. BFT, Expert Marksman, Superintendent and Demolition Expert (+3% fire chance is more than you think). You won't earn as much for shooting down 20-30 planes as you would hunting ships. If the BBs are engaging at your max range of 14.6 or past, you're useless. By staying close enough, to continue providing AA and fire support, you limit your ability to dodge incoming shells and your ability to scout for DDs. Next alternative is sticking to the BBs, but this removes part of your agility and firing arc advantage. In carrier games, escort the CV for about 2-3, maybe 5 minutes most to give time for enemy CV to skirt planes around map. With this, your AA scoffs at even T8 planes. This means BFT, AFT, and Manual AA + AA range module. Now, majority of people play a support role, and I'd wager over 90% build their Cleveland for full AA. Use your arcs to sit behind islands and spam over it at ships. Combine this with strong HE, and insane turret arcs, you can very easily kite ships chasing you and constantly 'tail-kick' when you somehow get forced into fighting a BB solo. On top of this, Cleveland has the smallest turning circle of the T6 CLs, and a fast rudder to boot.

Cleveland has a very low citadel and 2nd best in class armoring, with Budyonny coming on top. No cruiser is ever going to compare to BB armoring until you get to T10, and that's mostly just bow armor. By cruiser standards she has high survivability. Going to start off by rebuking this statement. Use the Cleveland in a support role as she is very fragile. Also depends on your commander skill level and any signal flag added to your ship. After the initial air attack you should be able to move off and join the battle.Īs for your defensive fire 5km range is about right to activate this. You could as the CV player is he or she would like AA support as your cruiser is the perfect one for this.

World of warships cleveland moved to t8