Kaiser Review - It's okay

[Boomax77]

Basic Specs (fully upgraded):

Health: 46,400 - More than both the Wyoming and Myogi. You also don't take very many citadel hits.

Speed: 23 knots - Faster than the Wyoming by two knots, but no match for the Myogi.

Main armament: 10 12 inch guns with a range of 14.6 km. However, to use all 10 of the guns, you must go directly broadside. You're better off ignoring the turret on the opposite side of your ship. The wyoming has 12 12 inch guns, and Myogi has 6 inch guns. You're behind in terms of main armament. However...

Secondaries: You have 18 150 MM guns. This is a helluva lot more than the Wyoming and Myogi have. So, you can brawl. By now you're probably noticing this about the German BBs.

 

How to play

As mentioned above, you can brawl - but try to take on T4/3 BBs, rather than 5's or 6's. That being said, your main targets should be cruisers. You look around for broadside CLs and CAs, and use AP to delete them. If you find an angled Battleship, you can use HE to blaze them.

 

No amazing replays or screenshots today, I haven't played the Kaiser in a few updates, and all my screens got deleted somehow

 

 

 

[RipNuN2]

It's a nice ship IMO and you wont see any T6 ships unless you fail division with a T5.

[AspiringCodger]

Basic Specs (fully upgraded):

Health: 46,400 - More than both the Wyoming and Myogi. You also don't take very many citadel hits.

Speed: 23 knots - Faster than the Wyoming by two knots, but no match for the Myogi.

Main armament: 10 12 inch guns with a range of 14.6 km. However, to use all 10 of the guns, you must go directly broadside. You're better off ignoring the turret on the opposite side of your ship. The wyoming has 12 12 inch guns, and Myogi has 6 inch guns. You're behind in terms of main armament. However...

Secondaries: You have 18 150 MM guns. This is a helluva lot more than the Wyoming and Myogi have. So, you can brawl. By now you're probably noticing this about the German BBs.

 

How to play

As mentioned above, you can brawl - but try to take on T4/3 BBs, rather than 5's or 6's. That being said, your main targets should be cruisers. You look around for broadside CLs and CAs, and use AP to delete them. If you find an angled Battleship, you can use HE to blaze them.

 

No amazing replays or screenshots today, I haven't played the Kaiser in a few updates, and all my screens got deleted somehow

 

 

 

 

You won't see tier 6 with it unless you're in a fail division anyway.

[Aduial]

Well it's miles better than Myogi. 

[Silevern]

Loved this ship. Takes a bit of time to get used to the strange mid-ship turret configuration but the firepower you can pump out is dangerous.

 

Gets even better with the König, OP. You're gonna love German BB if you like the Kaiser

[Ghostdog1355]

It was a good ship. I kept that one as I worked my way up the German BB tier.

[Boomax77]

Yea I absolutely love the konig lol

[BanditSE1977]

Yeah,I guess the Kasier is ok:

 

[Landing_Skipper]

Respectfully, Kaiser was my least favorite of the entire German BB line because of the odd turret layout and less than stellar gun arcs. It and Gneisenau are the only 2 I didn't keep on my way up to the Grosser Kurfurst.   I can effectively use the turrets now because of the Konig Albert,  but I much prefer the Wyoming in Tier 4. 

[RustyGalloway]

I would say it's far better than "okay". 

 

My take on the Kaiser: http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/100803-the-amazing-kaiser/

 

edit: Oh, and my average damage has risen to 70K since that thread.

[jimpat2]

I just got the kaiser and i am disappointied in the accuracy of the guns.  Seems to b a shotgun effect, ie just took on a BB at 6k nad the first shot was 4 over and 4 short, no i fired them all at once.  i found 2 mqybe 3 out of 8 is good....am i doing something wrong?

[Jason082278]

Working my way up the IJN and German BB lines (at tier IV in both). I love the speed and range of the Myogi but the firepower of the Kaiser seems so much better once you get into range. All those extra guns with a fast reload are nice along with better armor. Had one of those great games last night  104K damage 5 kills  First blood, Kraken, High Caliber and close quarter medals with the Kaiser. Liking it a lot more than the Myogi right now.

 

I played the tier 3 BBs in all nations and the slow speeds, low range of guns and terrible dispersion with DDs and carrier spamming torps at you ... turned me off BBs but the difference in ships from T3 to T4 is pretty substantial as they become a lot more fun.

[Chaos_EN2]

Well I am going throw in my 2 cents in. I know I not as good as many of you (still learning) but I love this ship!

She is tough, and can take/give a beating (I just got remember to watch out for torps), I am planning to keep this as I move up the chain of German Ships.

[lron_Dog_of_Jutland]

With regards to OP, no she's not ok. Her visuals WG created are an insult to this great ship. The 3D model is utter garbage.

 

Stats wise she's fine though. Not OP but pretty decent.

 

If WG would a a model rework it could be a great and fun ship. As of now just "meh".

[JohnnyThund3rs]

Coming more from US BB's, my trips in the Kaiser were less than fun.  I couldn't consistently put shells on target which I think is a disease of many low tier BB's (Wyoming and NY weren't fun grinds for me).  Funny thing is I loved the Nassau.    I'm in Konig now but have been focusing on getting my Baltimore going.  

[Wowzery]

Overall it was a good ship, I put it just below the Wyoming due to turret layout.  If you want to use all 10 guns you have to expose your soft broadside, and I can easily get 10-20k against this ship when it exposes its broadside (who needs cits against German BBs, they give up damage way too easily).  If you want to avoid damage, you have to stay angled in her, but you sacrifice 2 guns to do so.

A fast rate of fire, but don't expect the massive damage that comes from a good hit like you get with US or IJN BBs.  You must put more hits on the target to get the same damage as you would on other BBs with fewer hits.

Overall, a solid BB, better than Myogi, slightly better than Ishizushi, but falls short of taking over for Wyoming, Ark Beta and Imperator Nikolai IMO.

[NimitzTexas]

Just started playing the Kaiser, but it's miles ahead of Myogi.  I don't like it as well as I did my Wyoming, but I'm just starting in German BB's after having gone all the way up to a Montana and a Level VII Japanese BB.  So far, I think I'm going to like the German ships a lot better than I did the Japanese.  The Japanese don't have enough armor, it's not well laid out and their turrets are disgustingly slow.  The biggest advantage I see in the Kaiser over the Wyoming is your secondary armament will wipe out any DD that gets too close -- sometimes before they torpedo you!