Favorite light cruiser

[MarcusAurelius]

What's your favorite light cruiser in War at Sea? You can give your reason below, whatever that might be — playability, historical performance, or just a cool-looking mini.

[TheFoeHammer]

Atlanta, the bane of all air-based fleets.

[olliande]

Gloire, because i'm french :)

[swarbs]

I like Koln, when it moves fast people always shoot at it instead of at something else, it never makes it anywhere, but....

[mikoyan]

The Atlanta is the bane of any air attack. 8 dice at two different aircraft. Plus it looks cool.

http://www.wentworth-ltd.org/lightcruisers1.JPG

[MidnMike]

the atlanta is definitely the best of them all from a capability standpoint, but my vote is for the Gloire, because it looks cool and is a very solid cruiser for its point cost... excellent spotting makes it a great addition to a group assault, and it even has torpedoes at up to range 2!

[MarcusAurelius]

I'm a little surprised to see Jintsu get some early votes — especially with all the talk about it being overpriced.

[Joisey]

Atlanta. It's in almost every American build I see. Can't say that about anybody else's light cruisers.

[WolfsLair]

I voted for the duca d'aosta, but i gotta say that even though it's in my allied builds it's way over powered. should've had an AA of 6 not an 8, since no axis plane will ever get through two shots at 8 dice. just my 2 cents.

[Thunderjp]

I voted for the Koln because of its critical contribution to Germany's almost non-existent air defense. If you use the Koln as an AA escort for a big gun instead of using its one-time +2 movement SA, it shines.

[Legbiter]

Jintsu.

Just pulled a booster containing Jintsu and Canberra, and got to day-dreaming about single-ship/cruiser posse actions. Jintsu is such an amazing vessel.

[shousa]

I voted for the Duca D'aosta solely because all of the pics I've seen of it make me want one badly. In game terms, I haven't really gotten to try many cruisers out yet, as until recently I had only the Atlanta. Now I've got Atlanta, Koln, Jintsu, Gloire, and Sydney. From the stat lines I think I like Gloire the most of those, and she's not bad looking either.

[themariner]

For sentimental reasons it has to be HMAS Sydney for me

[polish_horsy]

Boise is nice.

It's like a plane in AAM. 1 and done. But it's perfect against a pocket battleship having a chance at a 1-shot destroy. Or it can wipe out an opposing cruiser with it's 1-time ability and limp after a destroyer the next turn.

[Rokossovsky]

They A&A Sydney looks like an old French Lorraine/Bretagne class battleship.

For me D'Aosta/Di Savoia -- actually it's Atttendolo/Montecuccoli -- without question.

Sheer beauty, once you learn to tell its platypus bow from its stern. :)

[Captain Hydro]

Gotta go Atlanta. With all of those 5" guns, it may not hurt a battleship, but Kates and Vals don't stand a chance

[Kamakazi1944]

Jintu is amazing - Long Lance Torpedoes ROCK !!!!