well, all IJN ships are made of paper so you need to ninja, wait for people to be blind (or blind them yourself) then strike. It's just part of the playstyle you need to get used to.

My advice, get a B65. generally people will tell you it's not a great ship, and probably the worst PBB, but really that only means it isn't broken! It's not a good ship at level, but if you said you have an awesome crew so you will be hitting 46 knots and have nearly Nagato range with 9 guns good spread. Also it has excellent AA slots. I have a B65 and find it very fun.

i guess ill try that, im a uk and us BB player so ijn gave me a beat down

Its a BB1: high expectations. Lower your expectations, youll be fine. Alaska, Renown and Revenge are no different.
Oh and dont use pbbs, a kitten dies every time you do.

Hi fleet mate,. good speed that boats pumping, the b65 is, just ok, good aa, but ijn my favorite prem boat is the asama. but with what youve said and the advice of others, "ninja" good one good stuff. it will teach you caution, the paper armor, it really dosent get a lot better down the seaways,.Sometimes its fun to use lower level, but faster reloading guns, I.E. the fuso is real fun, quik reload and everynow and then youl find some hapless H44 busy with a monty or plotting evil deeds, then rush and hammer,. you can usually with good aiming hit him much more than vise versa. al;ways fun to extradit a h44 with a fuso. definetly IJn is different game play remember to wait til lvl 64 to class you dp gunners. youl be rewarded with a smidgen of extra ability, Also its odd that as great as the IJn aa is its useless on many bbs. kind of useless, Compared to the mighty yami.

P.S. Grats on bb :)

Don't expect wonders for a BB1 in GB. Even BB3 struggles in GB as of late... Stick with higher level BBs and help them with AA, covering fire, etc.

Kongo is pretty much what you can expect from a BB1.

It doesnt shine particularly anywhere, for its class. Decent speed, capped out of the box or nearly, decent firepower, ok range, decent spread. A nice ship to learn the basics on.

In GBs, play it smart and opportunist, don't go lone-wolf if you can't correctly analyse the battlefield for ninja-style options.

The 900 SD suggest your cew is high level enough so you have decent survability, even in a BB1, so long as you dont go and start collecting BB5 full salvo.

for all the bad press it attracts, I genuinely think the Kongo is one of the better BB1s, certainly one of the most balanced. I'm tempted to re-buy a Kongo when my crew is say, Yamato level, just to mess around in it =P