lol....10 years and still getting elite/overvetted gunners......

at lvl 110, normal bve'd 9/9 gunners will perform just as well as yours....

I'll do something unussual here: i will answer your question! =)

True Ability = ['%'] . [displayed ab] . [max total sailors]

(in order of importance)


Now for Accuracy ability, for a elite 100 lvl (you mean reload one? accuracy is not a valid option...), premium sailor ('boosted') with 109 vets+719 experts+0 rookies

TA (acc) = [139%] . [~2890] . [828] = ~3.338.874

acc cap is far below that

Soviet ships have the same issue as a few others including IJN, the spread can be really good or be bad at times, it is just how the gunners are, the ships are still extremely good and the stalingrad is currently the best bb4 with more range than most bb4's so it can be quite devistating.

Having lots of vets like most everyone else said will not equal better spread at higher level your crew gaining more levels can help with the spread being that way but it takes time. 

here is something to try (feel lucky i am sharing this here in the public forums, i keep a lot to myself) try swapping your rear and front gunner. if the front gunners acc stat is lower (even if over cap overall) then it can almost bug your spread to crap when it should be good.  can't hurt to try. or you could just be cursed with bad spread eternally.

at 110 acc should easily be capped with reg vetting and experts. though like most have said you wont be block shotting  but should at least be getting 1/2 your shells to land on a decent BB

Haha...craziness in this thread.

First off, you don't know "bad" spread until you've played an H39  or an original pre-buff Richelieu with at lvl gunners .. The H39 loves to shoot 2 rows of shells that do 34k damage in a "block" that will never happen.. meaning you'll get 14k or so per broad side on almost ANY target, large or small, most of the time.

The stalingrad has amazing spread, I've tested it on the test server with the available delay classed gunners with 267 vets  NON boosted and it gives one of the most beautiful in a row shots I've seen of any BB4 -- repeatedly. The iowa and Yamato don't even come close... maybe the Lion I. 

I have soviet lvl 77 Elite reloaders with 120 vets each (I traded for them, otherwise they would be 109 each like i usually do) and cant wait to blockshot ppl later on!

As the poster above eluded to, sometimes your gunners are so far over the 100% accuracy cap and NF says, "thanks for wasting so much money on über-vetting your gunners. Your reward is a junk spread! Ha ha!"

All my BB6 gunners I've burnt experts down and adjusted rookies to achieve either 100.00% of the reload cap, or 99.99% of the reload cap. So far,  it's either my imagination, but the spread almost always improves when firing from a standstill at max angle. Obviously things change when you are overheating, turning, moving or have your gun guidelines "stretched" away from the ship at an exaggerated angle.  The benefit to doing this means lightened gunners (more bulge, deck, speed, fits on DD easier, etc) 

For your 2nd high level crew, try a KM ship ... lol