Shooting at the super late game won't get you almost any damage at all as the little HP remaining there will be quickly gone and upper belts are no pen zone for her unless is a very flat broadside relatively close. The problem is when anything angles a bit too much your AP doesnt get more than shatters even on DDs or CLs and BBs just have to angle very slightly to make your AP bounce on the upper belt. The AP can overpen DDs if they are almost flat broadside to you but can also do 3/4k salvos if they angle very slightly and it's just glorious. German guns in general are supposed to give up HE damage to gain 1/4 pen and all German DDs give up the damage but don't gain the pen. Honestly, the low krupp isn't that much of an issue IMO.įor someone that very rarely use HE with Z-52 I can tell you that her AP is not that bad but it lacks quite a lot tbh. And still enough pen to seriously rip through superstructures. German 128mm (at least in tanks) was extremely effective weapon although way overkill for the task, and for the little research I did a while back the Jagdtiger and Maus mounted a slightly modified naval gun so it would be almost the same as the ones Z-52 mount, I'm missing something or is it just WG's anti-axis bias again?Įxcept for the highest damage for the caliber. Gearing with much lighter and slower shells pen literally 67% more than Z-52 AP at very close ranges and doesn't go lower until over 7km distance. Yeah Republique have the best pen until around 13ish kilometers where the king is Yamato again but it's kind of interesting seeing how at point blank range Repu can reach almost a full meter of pen when Yamato cannot even reach 910mm (source: )Īlso maybe you can explain this because I really can figure what kind of WG magic made just a tiny detail work the way it does: Part of me wonders if it's not the other way around, Republique having more pen at long range. And I'm only 95% sure Republique has more pen at short range.

I don't have those numbers on my at the moment. Well, it's also manufacture, drag coefficient, etc.

World of warships spreadsheet meme