The remodel (1941), Tennessee 1945 has a huge defense..
also it contants a greater gun you can use

Wow thanks guys for all the info. I hope this post will help other players like me who
want to choose between the Penny or Tenn.

Tenn! It has more gun room and is just plain better. plus the remodeled tenn can use
triple 16" Ds (which i use and love :D)

If you have the baltimore too then go for the best of both worlds.

Best 14" BB for USN line: Penny
Best 16" BB for USN line: Colorado

I also have a baltimore

I have a lvl 25somthing dual aa (the original 11reload 11aa) that are classed as reload.

You can always do what I did.

Get em all! lol

Do you have a second set of gunners that can be used for AA? If so, the Tenn 41 has an
advantage over the Penn 30 (it can mount semi-viable AA). Otherwise, the Nevada is
superior to both of them (unless you have some level 110+ engineers lying around) due to
the larger scout space and higher speed.

Arguably the best course would be to work on your Alaska line BO, as the Alaska/Guam can
contribute more at-level (speed, scouts, AA). The standard reasoning for going with
Pennsylvania (which I followed) was that taking the Guam up to the Colorado was clearly
the best choice on that line, so going with the Pennsylvania gives more variety (the Penn
43 plays differently from the Colorado, while the Tenn 45 is largely similar).

Anyway, the Nevada is only "bad" because you are stuck playing a BB1 against BB456. If
you could take on other BB1s (especially at-level ones) near-exclusively, the balance
improvements would be obvious.

The Penn43 is much more pleasant at level. You are able to speed-cap it pretty much right
when you get it, and the 30 degree guns are easier to aim. However, Tenn45 is faster with
high-level crew; Penn has less usable displacement, so it slows down when your crew gets
fat. Tenn45 also hits quite a bit harder with its 40 degree dual 16".

For your first trip up the BB tree, Penn is probably the way to go. It's just an easier
ship to drive.

S.O.N.S. is a closed group now, because Nevada no longer sucks. Unless you leveled through
it before ONF rebalanced the BB1/2 and fixed its guns, you're never going to be a S.O.N.S.
anyway, so don't worry about that, and do yourself a favor and don't skip the Nevada. It
may not look like it, but it's actually a pretty sweet ride compared to most other BB1.
I'd happily take it against anything short of a Revenge and expect to win.

--Helms

Pennsylvania.