Through the Spy Glass: Collingwood

Named after British Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, who was Nelson's partner in command at the Battle of Trafalgar and the Legendary admiral's successor, this project is close to... you guessed it right, the Nelson-class battleships. Let's take a look at her in-game qualities, and allow us to assure you that you're going to like them, especially if you're a fan of big guns. Well, to be fair, who of us isn't?

Collingwood comes armed with six 16.5-inch (419 mm) main battery guns and a potent selection of consumables. You can choose between 4 km Sonar with a duration of 100 seconds or Enhanced Secondary Targeting, and you also have an improved Repair Party plus two charges of Main Battery Reload Booster at your disposal. This makes Collingwood a real threat with a very hard-hitting salvo weight, something we plan to utilize in today’s Commander-build suggestion, suggested by our very own Final Boss XII!

We recommend the following build: Andrew Cunningham with his Concentrated Devastation base trait, increasing the main battery shell grouping of your battleship.

Collingwood already has incredible shell grouping, (2.0 sigma for the technical-minded) so we won’t waste any further skill slots boosting this already strong trait. Instead, we’re going to focus on increasing the survivability of the ship to help you mitigate situations where you might find yourself coming under heavy fire. We’ll also take some time off that long reload to help you score that hard-hitting shot when you need it most!

• Not the One for Nuisance to reduce your risk of catching fire, risk of flooding, and torpedo damage to the citadel by up to 8%.
• Gyrating Drillbits to increase your battleship’s gun traverse speed and AP damage at the cost of reducing her maximum speed.
• Marksmanship to improve your main battery dispersion by up to –10% at the cost of making your rudder-shift time slightly worse.
• Reaching Out XXL to give you that little extra push by increasing your main battery range by up to +4%.
• Fight Fire With Fire to reduce the fire damage your ship takes for each active fire by up to 15% and remove damage-over-time effects from your ship whenever there are three concurrent fires. This newly reworked Legendary skill is potent!

Regarding Inspirations, you should try:

• Otto Ciliax, increasing the damage dealt by your main battery AP shells by up to +5%.
• Paolo di Revel, reducing your battleship main battery reload time by up to –6%.

Turn the tide with Collingwood’s impressive firepower!