But that's not a caveat you want to count upon. Still, she can pull off some pretty amazing things provided your opponents are idiots. This ship is on the cusp of greatness if she had just a little bit more armour or heals or something. Novice players will get themselves killed pretty quickly if they're not careful.įor veterans, the combination of her poor agility, enormous surface detection and squishy outer armour holds her back. I'd rate her as 'simple' if it wasn't so hard to keep her alive. Her HE spam and fire setting are both top shelf. Mainz is easy to play: Hold down your left mouse button and hoover up massive amounts of damage. Skill Ceiling: Low / Moderate / HIGH/ Extreme Skill Floor: Simple / CASUAL / Challenging/ Difficult Light cruiser armour instead of mirroring Admiral Hipper & Prinz Eugen's structural plate.īad fire angles on her main battery guns, especially rearward. Good main battery firing range of 17.5km.Īwesome guns with high DPM and HE penetration.ĭoesn't require a deep commander-skill build to make her effective.

Her citadel protection is very trollish at medium-to-close ranges. I wish he was still around to be able to tell me everything that's wrong about it. He passed away almost two years ago today. Regardless of how it came to be in World of Warships, to me this is dseehafer's ship. Like many of you, I've been annoying Wargaming about it off and on over the years. This was the first I became aware of the possibility and it seemed like a wonderful idea. One of his proposals was this very ship - an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser with 150mm guns. Like many of us obsessed with this game, he proposed possible candidates for future vessels in World of Warships. I always looked forward to one of his comparisons and history blurbs. My grasp of the history surrounding these ships has always been shaky so I gravitated towards people in the know, particularly those who can present such information in a fun way. I knew dseehafer from his 'Know the Difference' series of articles.

I can't think about this ship without thinking of dseehafer, one of the players and forumites from the North American server. Please be aware that she may change in the future. To the best of my knowledge, the performance and statistics discussed in this review are current as of patch 0.9.2.1. This ship was kindly provided to me by Wargaming for review purposes. The following is a review of Mainz, the tier VIII German light cruiser.

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