I run around in a Hood mounting the quad 14"L guns. If you see me in Bismarck, assuming
your from that server, I'll be glad to give you a head-up.

By the way, my speed is 22/35 when I use the above mentioned set-up. If I want to really
mess up my ship, I mount 4x14"N on the front and play like a very fast PoW.

i guess hood is just hard to use for at level gunners and enggy... it has a huge hit box too

i hardly ever see a hood in battle. are they just as bad as a renown?

Read Adalberts guide under "tips and tactics". Acc-cap is based on level, with every level
the acc-cap increases a litte bit. At some X-point the ability of your gunners have
reached the atlevel acc-cap and due that the growth of your ability with every level is
higher than the acc-cap increase, you will always reach the atlevel acc-cap. The highest
acc-cap is at lvl 120. Acc-gunners will reach this X-point earlier than rel-gunners, but
rel-gunners are better because the rel-cap is way higher than acc-cap (the rel-cap is not
levelbased and is around 2.5m true ability).

Ah thanks for all the advice. Also I noticed you have ACC gunners, Is the spread any
better than RLD gunners. My spread is around an inch to an inch and a half.

The best BB engine for Hood is heavier and give you 1kn less basespeed, so yes, use the
best BC engine. The 16" have a little bit less range than 15". In my opinion there is no
setup that has a huge advantage over the other in GBs, just test them both and pick the
one that fits to your playstyle.

So, I should be using BC engines not the BBs? also which guns do u recommend, seeing how
older post say the dual 15s are better but seeing the post above. The 16s have more range?
Speed really isnt an issue since i have enough OH to get me out of a hot zone. Currently
im also running the pom poms as aa guns, which is another reason why my speed is lower.
Also, are the 14" duals a usable guns?

I have now tested it with 2 engis to show the weird speedcap.
First with 24kn basespeed and 1kn away from speedcap.



Second with 23kn basespeed and 2kn away from speedcap.

Hood ranges Nelly by a difference of a centimeter or so. It's not a lot, so you really
have to watch out against Nelly rush.

"If i remember correctly, the speedcap is a little bit strange. After the BB34
patch i reached the cap with my 3 engis except for 23kn basespeed. I reached 23/39 when i
also reached LionI/LionII speedcap."
Are you sure you're not using the wrong engine? In a BB1-3, I accidentally put the wrong
engine with the second highest HP rating, and it OH'd 39 knots. I didn't realize it until
after the battle that I had accidentally put the wrong engine.

Hood speedcap is 25/42. And yes, Hood is a relatively hard ship to speedcap with at
level-engineers. Put a least 5 at-level engineers on the Hood: you'll need as much speed
as you can get.

Left is 16" and right is 15". The spread with 16" is very random in length, even with lvl
116 gunners. If i remember correctly, the speedcap is a little bit strange. After the BB34
patch i reached the cap with my 3 engis except for 23kn basespeed. I reached 23/39 when i
also reached LionI/LionII speedcap.