Talk:World 3/@comment-99.190.21.209-20141209052742/@comment-25630319-20141209055948

It reduces your shelling power to get about 15% extra evasion. Someone tested against 1-5a sub (very high hit rate) and got 39% dodge line ahead, 53% line abreast Source. The enemy BBs may have lower hit rate but each hit can be lethal so yeah.

When you want to pass through the elite BB node, your priority is not to sink them, since you can't. Your priority is to dodge every shot and proceed. By using line abreast, you will deal scratch damage instead of scratch damage on line ahead, and you dodge 15% more often than line ahead.