Go Hipper. After getting tons of credits, you can go straight to the battleships. The Hipper has sexy guns and it has good armor.

Go Hipper if you dont have 53+ gunners, D-land sucks with bad gunners. With Hipper you can do well even if you have medium gunners.

guess theyre both good but its just that you need VERY good gunners for the D-land to be strong or youll be food. throughly hipper is more versitile and remodelling it would be as equivavlent as any upcomnig BCs so practically its ur choice...

what you should of done is begun training a new BO about 10 levels earlier and stuck him on your boat in every mission, so by the time your at the end of the hipper line you can use your newly trained BO to get a Dland, and man it with your uber gunners.

Go hipper at 48 if you want a CV. Go Dland at lvl whatvr 11' is if you want a BB.

i have seen that the dland path is better than the admiral path the prblem is that if your gunners arent good enogh for dland you will lose money fast.so wait until you can handle the 11" and go dland unless you want a cv then go admiral already.

HIPPER!

i own both ships. go hipper unless u can wait till lvl 58-ish to use 11" properly

not quite sure.. ask the high lvls ingame..?