Actually, you can't really say this ship is a big ass light cruiser but a big ass destroyer. No seriously, they fire really fast and they can bead you IN THE DARK because glorious radar assisted fire control.Ī light cruiser prospect to lead destroyer flotillas, the Atlanta was basically a light cruiser that had a specific role: it was an atypical light cruiser for it was not meant to be an anti-surface combatant but it was to lead destroyers and a secondary role was to be an AA screen, and she, along with her sisters, were the only cruiser class to lug around torpedoes in the US Navy because their colleagues dedicated their offense to their guns, sweet sweet guns, but not on their case as they were to lead destroyers so its natural to prospect that they too would go on torpedo runs themselves despite being a big-ass light cruiser. You know you're knee deep in shit when you see a light cruiser packing SIXTEEN guns, FOURTEEN OF IT beading right at you broadside and they fire fast. THIS Atlanta (well, this is San Diego but still counts). not THIS Atlanta ya gutless derps that spem on the Cleveland like no tomorrow and cry like a baby when it will be nerfed or what (and yes, this Atlanta is CL-104 of the Cleveland class) One such cruiser was this thing, and to her defense she fought so hard she was named "Defender of Guadalcanal" because of the fighting that could force even the enemy to shed manly tears at its duration. if we speak of things, then they would have had the most distinguished careers that weren't the steel giants. The cruisers were the most part the main ships that had the range and versatility that could virtually do anything. They once said that the cruiser in World War 2 was the main hammer of the surface fleet as it were to be the everyman's tool in surface warfare. I'll try to badpost my thoughts on the cruiser one day.