She's agile with good concealment and boasts a Short-Burst Smoke Generator. Quick Summary: A fragile British light cruiser with ten, slow-firing destroyer-calibre guns. So let's see if reaching into the Box o' Gimmicks™ has saved us from unfun design choices. The silver lining (supposedly) is that they gave her smoke. Instead we got Dallas with much weaker guns. I was expecting Nürnberg levels of rapid-fire. Wargaming seems to have developed allergies for rapid-fire ships over the course of 2021 (to say nothing of AA specialists), with ships increasingly having longer and longer (and unfun) reloads and Dido's implementation obviously suffers from this new design direction. This ship has definitely been one I've highly anticipated knowing how important it is to not only Royal Navy enthusiasts but also players in the Commonwealth nations where she might be used (with modifications) to represent HMNZS Bellona or HMNZS Black Prince. A quick forums search finds talk about these ships going all of the way back to the game's launch, with players eagerly looking forward to more 'Atlanta-style' ships. Now Dido is a ship that players have wanted for a long time. I'm putting those reviews on hold to get a (relatively) faster one out. My AA project has ballooned out of control which I feared it might. I have a half-finished Giuseppe Verdi and Kearsarge reviews archived before I got distracted with mapping sustianed AA DPS (kinda important when talking about Kearsarge's planes). It's been a while, and not for the lack of trying. Posting this review is not an endorsement of current goings on nor is it a statement about them. The purpose of this review is to support the players, not the company behind the product. Please be aware that her performance may change in the future. To the best of my knowledge, the statistics discussed in this review are current as of patch 0.11.1. The following is a review of Dido, to tier VI premium British light cruiser, supported by my patrons on Patreon.

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