Hello,

sorry, that it took so long, but things were happening and I couldn´t get to this comparison. As usually I will try to be as on point as possible and I will try to sum up each of these unique DDs in few different categories, but all these DDs are crazily different, though Leningrad and Terrible seem almost same in terms of stats.

Commander setup/build

LE TERRIBLE

Gunboat annoyance build: Violet with Quick fix, Flank speed,Stand or fall, Sidestep, Rather be torching and Vian and Bey as inspirations

This is my standard setup, but if you want you can take Contact is imminent or Look at me now(this was my first setup before I fully understood Terrible in Legends)

You can also make torpedo focused build with Auboyneau, that can work for sure

BLYSKAWICA

Gunboat build: Swirski with Observant rage, Look at me now, T´n´T, Smoke on water, Unstoppable and Bey and Auboyneau as inspiration

There is not much things you can change about Blyska setup, but you can definitely try Mortar on her, preferably, if you are in division and have one friend "spotting" for you.

LENINGRAD

Gunboat annoyance build: similiar to Terrible, but I selected all torpedo focused skill and took Madden instead of Bey, but this is more of general build for all russian DDs.

Gunboat build: Trubetskoy with Observant rage, Mortar or Look at me now(depends on mood), A thousand cuts, Smoke on the water, Unstoppable and Bey and Auboyneau as inspirations.

Currently I am running Trubetskoj build and whole comparison will be based on that build, but both commanders can definitely work.

Artillery

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Name of ship	Number of guns	Reload time	180 turning time	Firing range
LE TERRIBLE	5	5 s	18 s	11,5 km
LENINGRAD	5	4,4 s	27,7 s	10,7 km
BLYSKAWICA	7	6 s	14,2 s	10,7 km

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Name of ship	HE shell damage	Fire chance	AP shell damage
LE TERRIBLE	1860	12%	2700
LENINGRAD	2166	8%	2750
BLYSKAWICA	1768	8%	2200

LE TERRIBLE

I felt most comfortable with guns on Terrible, because they have pretty good turret traverse, so they can shoot on target, even if you are maneuvering like crazy and allows nice kiting and open water shooting of guns.

When kiting you can use three guns without any serious problems, so you can be as annoying as possible.

(here is clip of game, in which you can see her gun behaviour: https://youtu.be/vNnbeEAEnT0 )

LENINGRAD

Guns on Leningrad pack very (like really big)big punch and reload pretty fast (4,4 sec with my build), but they are rotating bit slower, so sometimes you find yourself in situation, when your guns are still just turning towards enemy and he is getting free shots, but T´n´T or clever positioning can help with this problem.

Similarly to Terrible you can use three guns, when kiting away.

(here is just example of Leningrad game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKFEiQfgPxs )

Blyskawica

Blyskawica has 7 guns with very good HE shells, AP felt not so great, if we compare it with Leningrad and Terrible, but that doesn´t mean, that it can´t deal seroius damage to broadsiding enemies.

Blyska can use 4 guns, when kiting away, which can burn enemies very well, that are chasing you.

(here is good example of gunboating Blyska: https://youtu.be/X6jn_TSn420?t=158 )

Torpedoes

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Name of ship	LE TERRIBLE	LENINGRAD	BLYSKAWICA
Range	8 km	8 km	8 km
Damage	18400	15100	14400
Speed	65 knots	60 knots	57 knots
Concealment	1,4 km	1,2 km	1,2 km
Reload time	77 s	92 s	70 s
Number of torps	9	8	6

I found torpedoes on Terrible to be crazy easy to use and hit enemy ships(even without any buffing of torpedoes), torp on Blyska and Leningrad felt more like "force them to dodge" tool, but they still can do fantastic job.

Survivability(concealment, speed etc.)

LE TERRIBLE (18 600 HP)

I found Terrible to be most agile and hardest to kill, if you know, what are you doing, from these three ships. It can reach up to 51 knots with engine boost and concealment with my build is 5,8km, which is alright, because thanks your speed you can close distance between you and enemy, that´s outspotting you, really fast.

You don´t have smoke, but the glorious agility defends you from everything, but it takes bit of using to. But you for sure need to be turn away at any time, because you can only run away from enemy, because you don´t have smoke.

LENINGRAD (15 200 HP)

Leningrad can reach same maximum speed as Terrible, if you are using Gurin as commander., though it feeels bit more clumsy.

Leningrad has worst concealment from these three ships, but again, it has guns, that can even sink a cruiser in 1v1 duel, if you pick the fight wisely.

When you are in good spot, you can smoke up and just farm free damage, unlike Terrible, plus you can escape with panic smoke, if you mess up.

BLYSKAWICA (15 500 HP)

Blyska has best concealment from these three DDs, if we are not counting concealment build on Terrible and has very good max speed, though not on the level of Terrible or Leningrad, still very good and it has responsive rudder, so you can easily kite away.

The end

First thing, I played way more games on Terrible then on Leningrad and Blyska, so I might be bit biassed, but hopefully this can show at least some different types of gunboats(I would inclued Kidd too, if I had it, because it´s something absolutely different from these three).

I will be making DD guide soon, but it takes bit of time, because almost each DD line can be played two ways and as you can see here, not all gunboats are same, each differs a bit and same can be said about any DD line.

Here is link to my channel(more of archive of clips tbh), if you want to find some more clips(especially Terrible and Blyska from DDs): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs78KoDvR3DG6PSPzYphbjA/featured

If you have some questions feeel free to ask, Turtle

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Note: this is highly subjective thing, so please take it in mind.