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If you are inclined to spend money on this game and like to play battleships, especially brawlers, you could do worse than the Massachusetts. I'm a decidedly an "average" player but I have a win rate of 57% in the Massachusetts.

This ship is a tier VIII that can comport itself admirably in tier VIII-X matches and completely dominates tier VI-VIII matches. As a tier VIII, there's hardly any wait at all for matches, even late at night.

Pros:

  • Secondaries are excellent and range to 11.3 km
  • It has a rapidly-replenishing heal
  • It's a South Dakota class ship so it's compact and very maneuverable for a BB
  • It can dodge most torpedoes if you take the Vigilance skill
  • Scared of CVs? Not with the Massy! I have up to 88 plane kills in it and can count the times I've been sunk by CVs on my fingers
  • Frightened of subs? The Massy eats subs for lunch if they dare to get within secondary range. I've only been sunk once by a sub so far and that was when I had no health left and it snuck around and torpedoed me from the side while I was dodging a DD's and a CV's torps.

Meh's

  • Medium-range main battery at 18.3 km
  • Short-range airstrikes at 5 km
  • A bit prone to catching on fire
  • Not as fast as an Iowa

Severe Cons

  • Not really any

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Did I buy mine? Nope, I mentioned I sure would like to have one in the forums and Octavian_of_Roma gave one to me. I'm eternally grateful for the gift.

 

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An absolute steal.  Such a fun bote, and what? about half the price when you could buy her without all the soot?

 

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Although she’s not a strong as she once was (she’s been indirectly nerfed several times over the years by the introduction of subs, the IFHE/cruiser plating rework, and the commander skill rework) Massachusetts is still a pretty good tier VIII BB. Her main drawbacks are her terrible ASW (very short range just like Musashi, JB, and GC) and 1.7 sigma on 16”/45s that is serviceable but doesn’t feel great compared to the tech tree NC (2.1 sigma) or Nebraska (2.0 sigma, although having only six guns and no ASM1 makes her guns super trolly anyways).

7 hours ago, iDuckman said:

An absolute steal.  Such a fun bote, and what? about half the price when you could buy her without all the soot?

 

Tier VIII premiums typically hover around the $50-55 price point. Mass B is advertised in the Shop with a 30% discount off a “base price” of $52.20 US, which seems about right.

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Kii is still the best T8 premium BB, but Massa is solid choice as well

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13 hours ago, Snargfargle said:

If you are inclined to spend money on this game and like to play battleships, especially brawlers, you could do worse than the Massachusetts. I'm a decidedly an "average" player but I have a win rate of 57% in the Massachusetts.

This ship is a tier VIII that can comport itself admirably in tier VIII-X matches and completely dominates tier VI-VIII matches. As a tier VIII, there's hardly any wait at all for matches, even late at night.

Pros:

  • Secondaries are excellent and range to 11.3 km
  • It has a rapidly-replenishing heal
  • It's a South Dakota class ship so it's compact and very maneuverable for a BB
  • It can dodge most torpedoes if you take the Vigilance skill
  • Scared of CVs? Not with the Massy! I have up to 88 plane kills in it and can count the times I've been sunk by CVs on my fingers
  • Frightened of subs? The Massy eats subs for lunch if they dare to get within secondary range. I've only been sunk once by a sub so far and that was when I had no health left and it snuck around and torpedoed me from the side while I was dodging a DD's and a CV's torps.

Meh's

  • Medium-range main battery at 18.3 km
  • Short-range airstrikes at 5 km
  • A bit prone to catching on fire
  • Not as fast as an Iowa

Severe Cons

  • Not really any

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Did I buy mine? Nope, I mentioned I sure would like to have one in the forums and Octavian_of_Roma gave one to me. I'm eternally grateful for the gift.

 

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I'll take Massa over Kii any time. 

Massa is amazing. 

The fact WG removed her from the doubloon option on black friday is not. 

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Meh, she's easily the worst of the "American secondary BB premium line" of which Ohio is still obtainable for free. She's strong, but Ipiringa is stronger and is now available 100% free. Maybe it's because I had both Georgia and Ohio before getting her but I would not recommend her in 2024, especially since her ASW is still gimped for no reason. 

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7 minutes ago, Unlooky said:

Meh, she's easily the worst of the "American secondary BB premium line" of which Ohio is still obtainable for free. She's strong, but Ipiringa is stronger and is now available 100% free. Maybe it's because I had both Georgia and Ohio before getting her but I would not recommend her in 2024, especially since her ASW is still gimped for no reason. 

I agree! I would take Iparange (even tho silver) over my Premium Mass any day even if I lost out on some credits. New Pan American line is just insane.

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