The problem with Hood are the guns, they are meh, the rest of the ship is … 12 Comments on World of Warships – HMS Hood – Tier VII British Battleship. HMS Hood was a massively armed battlecruiser with what was thought to be armour equal to her armaments. I was just wondering why this was the case. This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. To all intents, HMS Hood was considered to be one of the most powerful battlecruisers afloat in World War Two. If there is to say about nations building the concept of the battlecruiser, it would be the British and the Germans has each had different plans on how they would build their iterations on the intermediate capital ship. Good turrets firing angles, amazing speed, and OP AA (with DF active). HMS HOOD. This did not come by easily however, as it suffered heavy losses in the opening stages of World War II with the sinking of HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious, and HMS Hood in the Atlantic, and HMS Hermes, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales in the Pacific. A ceremony has been held in Clydebank to mark the centenary of the launch of one of Britain's largest warships… . She was constructed towards the end of World War 1, at the height of the global arms race on the world waters, and traveled the world during the inter-war years only to be placed back into action in World … World of Warships – HMS Hood – Tier VII British Battleship. I'm still searching high and low for any confirmation of Hood getting the rumoured traverse buff; Warspite's is in the patch notes (from 72 to 54.5 seconds) and the two were leaked together, so that makes me slightly hopeful Hood will actually get the buffed traverse rate she was rumoured to be getting (and that Jingles' video makes pretty clear she needs). No, just no, the Hood is a fine ship and great at hunting cruisers. The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. REVIEW I'm not going to go into to much detail here because no doubt you've seen a review for this ship before. Many times during many documentaries you hear the HMS Hood referred to as the pride of the Royal Navy. Over the next seven years, Hood saw extensive service in European waters as the Royal Navy's premier fast capital ship. Hood is a decent tank, with a huge HP pool and decent armor when angled. Most ships including cruisers at this tier have 4.8km-5.2km long range with sub 100 DPS, while Hood is sitting on an effective 240 DPS with instakill flak out to 5.8km. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy.Commissioned in 1920, she was named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood.One of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916, Hood had design limitations, though her design was revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction.