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Also known as N. Sauro

Nazario Sauro

Also called: 纳扎里奥·萨乌罗 Beta

Italy · Tier II · Destroyer · Tech Tree: Destroyer Hunters

SAP destroyerA SAP gunboat: high-alpha SAP into broadsides and superstructures, leaning on smoke and speed.

Playstyle

Fight at mid-cap range where you can angle in for a SAP salvo and slip back behind exhaust smoke
Avoid: Pouring SAP into bow-in or heavily armored targets

Key characteristics

Long torps (8 km)Heavy HE shellsStrong AAExhaust SmokeEngine BoostSlow torp reload

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Playstyle

Overview

Nazario Sauro is a Tier II Italian SAP destroyer: her main guns fire high-alpha semi-armor-piercing shells instead of AP, so one good salvo lands a big guaranteed hit on broadsides and superstructures. Lean on agility to pick targets your SAP bites rather than shatters on; the torpedoes are slow and secondary. Exhaust smoke and engine boost cover the approach. AA (59 AA DPS at 2 km) ranks 2 of 17 in T2 DDs: heavy enough to make a careless strike expensive, though not the umbrella that shuts a carrier out of her grid. Standout traits: best high HP pool in T2 DDs (10,300 HP) and best HE alpha in T2 DDs (1,700).

Positioning

Fight at mid-cap range where you can angle in for a SAP salvo and slip back behind exhaust smoke. Pick broadsides, soft destroyers, and exposed superstructures where SAP lands full damage; do not trade SAP into the bow armor of an angled cruiser, and use the agility, not concealment, to survive. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 2.1 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 5.6 km, so you see it coming with roughly 3.5 km to spare. Vision is mutual: past the 2 km guaranteed ring you cannot see out either, and nothing in her kit sees through it, so pop the smoke where someone is already lighting the enemy or you will sit in it with nothing to shoot.

Potato Avoidance

Pouring SAP into bow-in or heavily armored targets

SAP shatters on the belt armor AP would pen, so salvos into an angled cruiser are wasted; hunt the broadsides, soft destroyers, and superstructures it bites cleanly, and remember the torpedoes are slow backup, not your primary damage.

Signature Traits

Engine Boost

+25% speed (about +8.8 kt), 15 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact.

High HP pool ↗

10300 HP, best of T2 DDs.

Heavy HE shells ↗

1700 damage per HE shell, best of T2 DDs. Punishes superstructure and modules harder than peers.

ELITE MOBILITY ↗

Heavy powerplant · 36000 hp
Holds speed in turns · 72 hp

Slow torp reload ↗

85 s torpedo reload, bottom decile of T2 DDs. Long wait between drops.

Easily spotted ↗

6 km surface detect, bottom decile of T2 DDs. Visible before you can react; position early.

Acquisition

How to get Nazario Sauro

Nazario Sauro is available in the Destroyer Hunters branch of the Italy Tech Tree for 13,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 2,600 credits. Official source cards below may also show its temporary Early Access window before it became a normal Tech Tree unlock.

Early AccessOfficial WG line/source notes indicate a temporary Early Access window before normal acquisition.

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Italy Tech Tree

Nazario Sauro sits in the Destroyer Hunters branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full Italy tree.

8 ships in highlighted branch · scroll to inspect all Italy lines.

ItalyIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIII★

Destroyer

Cruiser

Battleship

Tier ★Attilio RegoloPISD110 Tier ★VeneziaPISC110 Tier ★Cristoforo ColomboPISB110 Tier VIIIAdriaticoPISD109 Tier VIIIBrindisiPISC109 Tier VIIILepantoPISB109 Tier VIIVittorio CunibertiPISD108 Tier VIIAmalfiPISC108 Tier VIIVittorio VenetoPISB108 Tier VILuca TarigoPISD107 Tier VIZaraPISC107 Tier VIFrancesco CaraccioloPISB107 Tier VAvierePISD106 Tier VTrentoPISC106 Tier VAndrea DoriaPISB106 Tier IVMaestralePISD105 Tier IVMontecuccoliPISC105 Tier IVCavourPISB105 Tier IIITurbinePISD104 Tier IIIGiussanoPISC104 Tier IIIDante AlighieriPISB104 Tier IINazario SauroPISD103 Tier IITarantoPISC103 Tier INino BixioPISC102

Official WG availability sources

Full Speed Ahead: Italian Destroyers in Early Access Early Access Start: 2023-05-17 · End: 2023-06-14 Official early-access or tech-tree-line article. Tech-tree ships are temporary crate drops during Early Access, then move to the Tech Tree.

Builds

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Commanders frequently paired with this ship Carlo Bergamini Luigi Rizzo

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Cohort position

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Where Nazario Sauro sits among Tier II DDs (22 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.

BestHit points10,300 HP (1/23) BestMain battery caliber120 mm (1 of 2 tied) BestEngine power36,000 hp (1/23) BestTurn-speed retention72 hp/m (1/23) Top 10%AA DPS59 (2/17) Top 10%Torpedo range8.01 km (3/23) Top 25%Main battery range8.82 km (6/23) Top 25%HE DPM62,769 (5/23) Top 25%AA threat104 (4/17) Bottom 25%Air detection2.89 km (21/23) Bottom 25%HE fire chance5% (21/23) Bottom 25%Torpedo speed51 kt (19/23) Bottom 10%Concealment6.03 km (22/23) Bottom 10%Displacement1,575 t (22/23) Bottom 10%Torpedo reload85 s (22/23) WorstSmoke fire bloom2.07 km (23/23) WorstDeck armor6 mm (1 of 9 tied)

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Not standouts for Nazario Sauro -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.

Max speed35 kt(7/23) Rudder shift2.7 s(17/23) Turning circle500 m(15/23) Traverse-to-turn ratio4.85 ×(13/23) Main battery reload6.5 s(17/23) Fires per minute1.85(17/23) Main dispersion81.2 m(18/23) HE velocity850 m/s(7/23) Acceleration16.1 s(13/23) Power-to-weight22.86 hp/t(10/23) AA range2 km(13/17) Torpedo damage≈6,633(15/23) Torpedo reaction time8 s(15/23) Max armor10 mm(11/23) Citadel belt10 mm(11/23) NormTurn speed retained81%(21 of 23 tied at this value) NormStern armor6 mm(21 of 23 tied at this value)

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Survivability

Hit PointsInitial: 8,900 → 10,300

Displacement1,575 t

Hull dimensions

Length x beam at the waterline, with the hull's draft where the client carries one. Ships whose client entry holds only the 260 x 20 m placeholder use a curated real-world figure instead, and any ship we have no trustworthy size for omits this row rather than print the placeholder. Length matters when dodging torpedoes; beam and draft shape how hard the ship is to hit.

90.6 x 9.2 m

Armor range6–10 mm

Plate armor thicknesses6, 10 mm

Armor material/layer entries21

Fire resistance

Does not reduce the damage a burning fire does per second: replay-measured burn ticks run at the full rate on every ship. By elimination it lowers how often hits set you on fire; ignition-rate replay data is consistent with that but too confounded by attacker mix to measure the reduction directly.

Initial: 0% → 3.3%

Fire duration30 s

Fire damage

Each fire ticks 0.3% of max HP per second for the full 30 s, so one unattended fire burns 9% of the pool (927 HP on this ship). 4 fire points can burn at once. Verified against measured burn ticks in replay data.

0.3% of HP per second

Flood duration40 s

Flood damage

A flood ticks 0.25% of max HP per second for the 40 s duration, so one unattended flood costs 10% of the pool (1,030 HP on this ship). Verified against measured flood ticks in replay data.

0.25% of HP per second

Torp Reduction

Reduces torpedo hit damage. Replay data shows no effect on floods: flood ticks run at the full rate and flood frequency does not decline with protection.

Magazine HP

Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool from the ship's. Penetrating hits wear it down and the turret is likelier to be knocked out as it falls, so a larger pool keeps the guns firing through punishment that silences a peer's.

5,200

Steering gear HP

Durability of the steering gears. As this pool drops, hits are likelier to jam the rudder; unlike most modules the steering can be knocked out and repaired but is never permanently destroyed.

3,100

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: steering gear50%

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 120 mm/45 Vickers-Terni 1926

Mounts / barrels2 mounts / 4 barrels

Reload time6.5 s

Firing range (base)8 km

Firing range (top fire control)8.8 km

Turret traverse10 °/s

Turret armor6 mm

Turret traverse arcs

How far each mount can train, in degrees to either side of the mount's own facing, read from in-game data. A rear turret with ±150° leaves a 60° blind wedge over the bow; one-sided arcs are wing mounts that cover a single side. The data does not say which way each mount faces, so the arcs are listed per mount without bow/stern angles.

±155°, ±160°

Guns to bear

How far off the bow (or stern) the ship must angle before every main turret can fire: the widest blind wedge among the rear-facing (or forward-facing) mounts, from each mount's trainable arc. Mount facing is inferred from turret stations and verified against known layouts, including Izumo's aft-facing forward turret.

20° off bow / 25° off stern

See the firing-arcs diagram ↓

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Max Horiz Disp

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:

σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30

= (\frac{8820.9}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 81.2 m

81.2 m at 8.8 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 81.2 \cdot 0.6 = 48.7 m

48.7 m at 8.8 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 81.2 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 24.3 m

24.3 m at 8.8 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 48.7 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 14.6 m

14.6 m at 8.8 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.

18 s

Shells/min

4 broadside guns x 60 / 6.5 s base reload = 36.9.

36.9

HE shells

HE Damage1,700

HE Velocity850 m/s

Fire Chance5%

HE penetration

20 mm ≈ 120 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

20 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

1,700 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 6,800.

6,800

HE DPM

6,800 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.5 s base reload = 62,769.

62,769

Fires/min

36.9 shells/min x 5% fire chance = 1.85.

1.85

SAP shells

SAP Damage2,350

SAP Velocity850 m/s

SAP Pen (mm)34.2

SAP Fragment Radius

SAP shell fragment splash radius; the area over which a SAP hit scatters fragment damage. Scales with shell mass (90mm ~ 5, 203mm CA ~ 20-30, 320mm = 175, 406mm = 250, 457mm = 400, max) and is tuned per ship, so two ships with the same SAP caliber can differ (135mm ranges 5-24). Larger value = wider fragment spread per hit.

AP shells

Min Ricochet60 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet75 deg

Fuse Timer0.03 s

Fuse Threshold25 mm

Torpedoes

ModuleTorpedoes: 533 mm tubo lanciasiluri

Launchers / tubes2 launchers × 3 tubes = 6 tubes

Reload time

Base reload of the top torpedo module (all-upgrades configuration); the stock module reloads in 95 s. In-game port tooltips additionally fold in your installed modernizations and commander effects - e.g. Torpedo Launchers Mod. 3 alone is x0.85:

85 \times 0.85 = 72.2

85 s

Projectile speed51 kt

Range8.01 km

Maximum simulated damage

Estimate of WG's in-game value; matches the in-game port screen within ±5%. Saturation: most targets only intersect one hull section, so the sim transfers ~1/3 of the warhead alpha (2/3 when the warhead blast >= 5000 and the burst reaches a second section). For this ship:

D_{sim} = α \cdot c = 19, 900 \cdot 0.333 = 6, 633

≈ 6,633

Maximum damage (ammunition)

The ammunition card's 'Maximum Damage' stat, exact: warhead alpha / 3 plus the blast addend. This is the per-torpedo number most references quote; the 'Maximum simulated damage' row above is WG's separate geometry-sim stat from the launcher spec panel.

7,333

Torpedo detectability1.1 km

Reaction time

How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning):

t_{react} = \frac{1.1 km}{51 kt \times 2.6855} = 8 s

. The 2.6855 m/s-per-knot game-speed factor is calibrated from in-game measurement; the community's traditional 2.6 reads about 3% slower. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further. Community torpedo-reaction calculator by u/LorenDovah and u/The_ColorOutofSpace.

8 s

Flooding chance

Read straight from the game's own data: this torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 1.15 per hit, shown as

1.15 \times 100 = 115 %

. Torpedo flood values above 100% are normal: in battle the base chance is scaled down by the target's torpedo protection (the Torp Reduction stat on its Survivability card) and any flood-resistance modifiers, so a value above 100% keeps flooding likely even through partial protection. Not shown on the in-game port screen.

115%

Torpedo launcher traverse25 °/s

Torp Turn

Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg:

t_{turn} = \frac{180 °}{25 ° / s} = 7.2 s

7.2 s

Torp Arming167 m

Per-side salvo damage

One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 6,633 = 39,798.

39,798

AA Defense

AA mount points3

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 2 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

2 km

40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni2×1 40mm

13.2 mm/76 Breda 1931 (upgraded hull only)1×2 13mm

7.7 mm Lewis (stock hull only)1×1 8mm

Guns40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 12 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 1 hit probability = 42 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Initial: 35 → 42

Range2 km

Guns13.2 mm/76 Breda 1931

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 5 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 17 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range1.2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Medium 42 + Near 17 = 59

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Maneuverability

Engine power36,000 hp

Maximum speed35 kt

Turning circle radius500 m

Rudder shift time2.7 s

Engine power-boost threshold7 kt

Engine spool-up time7.7 s

Reverse spool-up time3.8 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 35 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.7 kt. The community reverse-speed model from the WoWs ShipBuilder project, the same source as the acceleration model on this card. Base value; speed modifiers scale it. Not shown on the in-game card.

13.7 kt

Crash stop

Seconds from top speed to a dead stop after ordering full reverse: reverse power winds in over the reverse spool-up while water drag does most of the braking. Same community-model simulation as the acceleration times, using the ship's own reverse-power ratio from in-game data. The full curve is on the acceleration chart.

13.5 s

Engine boost threshold (reverse)

Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse. Matches the in-game maneuverability card's reverse threshold (Vampire II reads 10.5 here and the card shows 11; the card rounds half up).

12.2 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (31.5 kt of 35 kt), from our in-house acceleration model.

16.1 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (34.6 kt of 35 kt). 99% rather than 100% because true top speed is asymptotic (thrust meets drag), so the last fraction of a knot is never quite gained.

27.1 s

Traverse-to-turn ratio

How many degrees the turret can swing for each degree the hull turns. Turn rate

ω_{hull} = \frac{180}{π} \cdot \frac{V_{max} (m/s)}{R_{turn}} = \frac{180}{π} \cdot \frac{35.0 \cdot 0.5144}{500} = 2.06 ° / s

, so

ratio = \frac{ω_{turret}}{ω_{hull}} = \frac{10}{2.06} = 4.8 \times

. Below 5 the turrets drag in a turning fight; 25+ keeps up with any rudder.

4.8× drags

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Concealment

Detectability by sea6.03 km

Detectability by air2.89 km

Smoke firing penalty2.07 km

Detect when firing (sea)

Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach. Matches the in-game 'Detect Firing Sea' value on all 8 unmodified captures, and range-modified captures track the modified range.

8.82 km

Detect when firing (air)

Air detectability plus the gun-firing bloom (2.4 km, which tracks main-battery caliber x 0.020). Matches the in-game 'Detect Firing Air' value on every captured ship.

5.29 km

Detect when on fire (sea)

Base sea detectability + 2.0 km while burning; matches the in-game 'Detect Fire Sea' value on every captured ship.

8.03 km

Detect when on fire (air)

Base air detectability + 3.0 km while burning; matches the in-game 'Detect Fire Air' value on every captured ship.

5.89 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active

Exhaust Smoke Generator3 charges · 120 s reload · 25 s emit / 10 s cloud active · 450 m radius

Engine Boost3 charges · 120 s reload · 15 s active · +25% speed bonus

Module options (3)

Stats above use the fully-upgraded modules. These are the research-tree alternatives; trade-offs are flagged.

HullUpgrade

Hit points8,900 → 10,300
Rudder shift5 → 3.6 s
Close-range AA DPS12 → 17

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range8,019 → 8820.9 m

TorpedoesUpgrade

Reload95 → 85 s

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Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.

Main battery formulas

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Max Horiz Disp81.2 m at 8.8 km

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:  $σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30$   $= (\frac{8820.9}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 81.2 m$

Shell scatter width @ 5 km52.5 m

Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same verified dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.

Max Vert Disp48.7 m at 8.8 km

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax$ $= 81.2 \cdot 0.6 = 48.7 m$

Med Horiz Disp24.3 m at 8.8 km

50%-hit horizontal radius: $σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 81.2 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 24.3 m$

Med Vert Disp14.6 m at 8.8 km

50%-hit vertical radius: $σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 48.7 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 14.6 m$

HE penetration20 mm

20 mm ≈ 120 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

SAP Fragment Radius7

SAP shell fragment splash radius; the area over which a SAP hit scatters fragment damage. Scales with shell mass (90mm ~ 5, 203mm CA ~ 20-30, 320mm = 175, 406mm = 250, 457mm = 400, max) and is tuned per ship, so two ships with the same SAP caliber can differ (135mm ranges 5-24). Larger value = wider fragment spread per hit.

Broadside guns used for alpha4

All 4 barrels bear on the broadside.

Turret turn time18 s

180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.

HE full-salvo alpha6,800

1,700 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 6,800.

HE DPM62,769

6,800 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.5 s base reload = 62,769.

Shells/min36.9

4 broadside guns x 60 / 6.5 s base reload = 36.9.

Fires/min1.85

36.9 shells/min x 5% fire chance = 1.85.

Torpedoes

Torpedo detectability1.1 km

Estimated torpedo reaction time8 s

detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 game-speed factor, m/s per knot, calibrated from in-game measurement; the community's traditional 2.6 reads about 3% slower).

Torpedo speed51 kt

Travel time to max range58.5 s

range / (speed kt x 2.6855 game-speed factor, m/s per knot, calibrated from in-game measurement).

Torpedo module damage700

Per-torpedo module/blast damage parameter from in-game data. Most torpedoes carry 500 to 2,000; ships announced by WG as dealing increased module damage carry 9,000 to 12,000, so their hits knock out engines, rudders, and turrets far more often. Comparative figure; the exact module-HP conversion is not published.

Tube count6

2 launchers x 3 tubes.

Per-side salvo6 torpedoes

6 (centerline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).

Full-salvo damage39,798

All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 6,633 = 39,798.

Per-side salvo damage39,798

One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 6,633 = 39,798.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range42

Only families that reach 2 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 40mm Vickers 2x1 -> 42 DPS @ 2 km; 13 2mm 2barrels Breda MG 1x2 -> 17 DPS @ 1.2 km.

Maximum AA range2 km

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 2 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

AA DPS layered by range42 DPS @ 2 km, 59 DPS @ 1.2 km

Cumulative AA DPS at each family range threshold. Inner ranges stack the outer families, so a target closing the distance hits stronger AA bubbles as it crosses each band.

AA DPS at point-blank59

Sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (1.2 km).

AA threat index104

SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.

Near aura range1.2 km

Armor Beta

Hull HP 8,900 → 10,300 with hull upgrade, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are the exact in-game values, not estimated.

Bow & stern6 mm

Overmatched by 105+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.

Farming6 mm

Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 3%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	6 mm primary (range 6–10 mm)	1,500 (15% of HP)	Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut, Shenyang)6 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP.
Stern	6 mm primary (range 6–10 mm)	1,100 (11% of HP)	Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut, Shenyang)6 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	10 mm primary (range 6–10 mm)	≈ 165,500 (effectively no cap)	Citadel pen: full damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage	Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. An AP citadel penetration deals the shell's full damage, the biggest single hit available; only over-penetrations are damped, to ×0.10.
Superstructure	6 mm	500 (5% of HP)	Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage	Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage. HE-spam target, and the section saturates fast (often only a few thousand HP).
Turret (module, per magazine)	separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP	5,200 magazine HP	Turret knocked out	Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool that does not drain ship HP. As it is worn down the turret is likelier to be knocked out, and a smaller pool gets there faster.
AA mount (40 mm mount)	separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP	200 per-mount HP	Destroyed at 0 HP	Per-mount HP for the heaviest AA on this ship. An AA mount destroyed at 0 HP stops shooting down planes for the rest of the battle; DCP does not repair destroyed mounts. HE shells specifically target AA mounts since the small-caliber HP pool falls fast.
Rudder (module)	separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP	3,100 module HP	Incapacitated at 0 HP	When module HP reaches 0 the rudder locks at its current angle until DCP repairs it. Repair via Damage Control Party.

Saturation cap = HP a section can absorb before further damage to it is reduced (the "bow-tank" effect). Citadel pool is ~165k on every ship (effectively no cap); damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead. Superstructure saturates fast but HE always pens regardless of the plate thickness. Rudder (and other module HPs) are a separate pool from ship HP: damaging a module doesn't drain ship HP. Incapacitated modules like the rudder and engine are restored by DCP, but secondary and AA mounts destroyed at 0 HP stay out for the rest of the battle.

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Primary official WG sources

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2023-05-17 · Early access / tech tree line Full Speed Ahead: Italian Destroyers in Early Access Line source

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