Yeah, this thing does seem like a downer. It has all the detriments of a frigate (slower speed, less survivability, no armor to speak of), but not really any of the advantages enjoyed by many of the other, more modern frigates (responsive weapons, high ROF, air-search radar, etc). Though it seems like maybe it has decent AA for it's battle rating? Silver linings I guess. Though that doesn't change the fact that this ship costs over 300k research points and is functionally inferior in almost all aspects to a reserve destroyer
You can hunt planes with it, but it doesn't even have proximity shells (HE-VT), only much worse time fuse shells (HE-TF). There are much better vessels for this task, also at lower BR.
Yeah, this thing does seem like a downer. It has all the detriments of a frigate (slower speed, less survivability, no armor to speak of), but not really any of the advantages enjoyed by many of the other, more modern frigates (responsive weapons, high ROF, air-search radar, etc). Though it seems like maybe it has decent AA for it's battle rating? Silver linings I guess.
Though that doesn't change the fact that this ship costs over 300k research points and is functionally inferior in almost all aspects to a reserve destroyer
You can hunt planes with it, but it doesn't even have proximity shells (HE-VT), only much worse time fuse shells (HE-TF). There are much better vessels for this task, also at lower BR.