San Diego (Retrofit) [Sandy-R]

WATASHI WA NUMBA WAN!
Tier: 0
 
When you need planes dead, accept no substitutes.  With 2x gold AA radar, Sandy-R’s AA is literally over 1000.  And that’s BEFORE her starting skill kicks in.  Add 185% AA efficiency, and she can basically solo all your AA needs outside of ch13.
 
But she’s not all about AA, oh no.  With main gun +1, a new-and-drastically-improved Full Barrage, the ability to equip DD guns, AND a powerful timed barrage, Sandy-R can easily compete for numba wan with the best.  It is actually BETTER to equip DD guns on Sandy-R than CL guns, as the 138.5mm (127mm if you missed it) has comparable DPS while proccing her Full Barrage much faster.
 
She also has the best ASW of all CLs.   Not that you care, but on a blue moon it’s useful.
 
Sandy-R is a little squishy, but that can be easily fixed by putting her in the center of the fleet.  She also has horrible torpedos (some of the worst out of all CLs), but really, you don’t care when everything else is this broken.  This should be your highest priority among all retrofits (assuming you were there for the event and actually got the microphone).


Sandy Retro in ch13
 
By all intents and purposes, Sandy-R should basically be cheating in any map with planes.  However, ch13 feels like it was specifically designed with her in mind, as even a boss fleet fully built into AA with a Sandy-R will struggle with the 13-4 boss’s plane spam.  For this reason, I would consider Sandy-R mandatory for anyone attempting this chapter.  It really is a shame she’s technically event limited huh...

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