World of Warships- What Cruiser Line Is Best For You In 2023?

Hello guys, today we take a quick look at each of the cruiser lines in the game and discuss which one would be the best pick for you in 2023!
Enjoy!



Music:
Ross Rowley:

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Outro Music: Stranger Think- C418

Music: Stranger Think- C418

Chapters:
0:00 Video Intro
1:03 German Heavy Cruisers
3:17 Japanese Cruisers
6:35 American Cruisers
9:51 Soviet Cruisers
12:33 British Cruisers
15:38 French Cruisers
18:27 Italian Cruisers
21:27 Pan-Asian Cruisers
23:28 Dutch Cruisers
25:15 Closing

[meatpiman]

I have every tech tree line. My favorite are British light cruiser line. High risk reward line, taught me to stay on the ball, watch the mini map and good positioning, makes me a better player. Skills translate well to other ship classes.

[nualanet]

I've tried all the classes in the game thus far, except for the super ships and submarines. I enjoy most of them, but I find my favorites are the light cruisers. They combine features that make them rather versatile, they're agile, peppy, conceal well, and I just plain find them fun to play. My Dad and one of my older cousins were "tincan" sailors. One of my Dad's friends served aboard the Baltimore.

I really enjoy when a game goes well and I can coordinate with a CA and a DD and our individual quirks compliment each other. I live close to Worcester, MA namesake for the U.S.S. Wisstuh.

[mrtoecutter]

Thanks! This helped a lot. I started down the German line towards the Hindenburg and thought that I was going in a bed direction. So yup, I'll keep pushing forward.

[horonin]

I started 2 and a half weeks ago and am working on my first cruiser line for Clan Battles now, this was super useful, thanks! I had been piecing together from older videos what to expect and this has helped me out. Grinding the Des Moines first, but I have a few in mind for once I get that to 10.

[wombat]

The sort answer is USN CA's. Des Moines at the end is a treat, and there are hardly any bad eggs along the way.

[raynibbs]

Ty for taking the time to make this. Serves as the starting guide for more in depth look at exactly what cruiser(s) you want to play.

[hiddentruth]

a rule of thumb. if it's soviet it has everything. if it's french it has everything except armor.

[smolwheat]

Yodo. Play the Japanese light cruiser line. It has a lot of health, great torpedoes, big guns, great reload, and it’s tankier than a Hannover. Definitely grind that line, it is the best that exists in the game.

[bksfishingpinellas.]

I do like the American line, only 2 draw backs for them. 1) the guns don't track in turns as well as others and 2) no torpedos. I have bounced back and forth working up the American and Japanese lines. Will try the German next.

[DikWZD]

I think, French cruisers is good idea as the first line, because you have two different gamestyles in the one line. And Petro of course. Petro is still OP and very useful line in gamemodes

[admiraloscar]

My very first line in the game that I choose to go down was the British light cruisers. A lot of people got easy dev strikes.

[DieSammelstelle]

I like the vennecia line the most for regrind! Solid damage Everytime, get free out of jail smoke for Bad Situations and fire and forget Torps for the extra surprising Fun :)

[admiralprinceeric]

Initially, I made it chose for the best cruisers like one of my favorites is French Cruisers for example does is Marseille and Henri IV are my first Tier X Cruisers ahead.

So, Marseille is one of my favorite French Cruiser that is classified as "Large Cruiser" due to it's large caliber guns like 330 mm but it also does have Engine Boost and Main Battery Reload Booster are both of their favorite consumables.

Due to it's Marseille's main caliber gun is purely fire AP Shells to target enemy Battleships and Cruisers on the broadside to get citadel hits.

[Gladius-XC]

A few points to add:
1. The Japanese heavy cruisers (not sure about the lights) have improved dispersion. Like DD levels of dispersion. So if your aim is good, they will reward you handsomely. For some reason, this gets forgotten about all the time.
2. The mid-tier German CLs absolutely do NOT suck. Konigsberg and Nurnberg ARE extremely fragile, so you have to stay at range and have good map awareness so you can dodge incoming shells. But the guns are amazing, with good ballistics and a fast reload. Yorck used to have really bad ballistics on her guns that hampered that ship, but WG changed that, and she is much, much better. She is a very maneuverable cruiser with decent armor, so a well played Yorck is a real pain to deal with.
3. The mid-tier Italian cruisers are much like the Yorck. Their handling is reminiscent of their super car countrymen, and that is what you use in place of armor. You can play the mid-tiers a lot more aggressively than their higher tier counterparts, and use the fuel smoke to bail when it gets too hot. The Italian cruisers are the funnest line of cruisers to play, IMHO!

[Endcsline_LiveD]

Gouden is my favourite ship to play (when MM spares me from subs).
I perform better when not camping islands, but on a wide flank
It's quite tanky, the shells are fast and can chunk cruisers with AP and destroyers with HE.
Once you understand how to effectively use airstrikes, they'll hit 90% of times.
It's easy to get 150k -200k dmg consistently

[nathanielsoucie-porter]

Currently going through the German line right now, and it's easily been my favorite thus far.

[ashleighelizabeth]

Just a quick correction. Super heal for British Light Cruisers starts at tier 8 with Edinburgh. I'm grinding her right now and I was positively shocked at how large the heal for her is, it reminds me of the zombie heal on my Nelson. Also again Edinburgh also has radar for smoke swap.

Again a heal is available at tier 8 in the Pan Asian line with the Harbin.

[aesirgaming]

My two recommendations for new players:

Range-build, Light House Nevsky: Soviet ballistics to 22km. Fast reload. Soviet-bias armor (CL reload/speed, medium cruiser armor)

Range-build Hindenburg: Out range most battleships, German AP, plus HE spam. Kite. Make BB players cry.

Both of these builds are amazing kiters with fast-reloading, good guns that range out to BB ranges. Very little will be able to reliably hit you at this range, even if you're not a great throttle/rudder juker. The things you really need to worry about are a good French BB player or a Slava. Yammy will hurt if it can hit you, but those shells are slow enough you should be able to dodge. Sit back, shoot guns, light fires, farm damage. Even in a bad game on these builds, I'm around 70k. Over 100k is not at all hard to pull off. Because of your range and reload, you can target basically any ship in the game and make it regret recent life decisions. You're not wedded to an island (DM), but both have just enough armor to bound a lot of shells if angled properly (just not large-gun BB's).

If you want to play Soviet heavy, get the Moskva. Much better ship, imo, than the Petro, especially if you ammo swap well (DPM can be pretty good).

[harryflower]

I like the German cruisers but my favourite cruiser is the British Fiji.

[jaywerner]

Now THIS, is a grate and informative WoWS video. Suprised people don't do these more often given WG seems to come up with a New Line every 3 months.

US Heavy get IMPOVED PEN ANGLES from tier 6 far as i recall, the heavy AP starts at tier 8.

British Light Cruisers get SHORT FUSE and IMPROVED PEN ANGLES, the Edinburgh can get Radar as well.