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Nino Bixio

Also called: 尼诺·比西奥 Beta

Italy · Tier I · CL Cruiser · Tech Tree: Nino Bixio

Tutorial-tier shipLearn the fundamentals: movement, aim, shell travel, and reading the minimap.

Playstyle

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone
Avoid: Sailing in a straight line

Key characteristics

Stealthy (7.4 km)High HP poolFast for the classSaturates bow fastSlow reload

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Playstyle

Overview

Nino Bixio is a Tier I Italian cruiser - a tutorial-tier ship. The kit is for learning basic mechanics: movement, aiming, shell travel time, gun rotation, and reading the minimap. Match impact comes from making fewer mistakes than the other Tier I players, not from gear advantages. Notable: best high HP pool in T1 CAs (16,600 HP) and best top speed in T1 CAs (26.8 kt).

Positioning

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone. At Tier I the goal is practicing the basics, so pick a teammate to follow and learn how to lead your shots while their ship is in your field of vision.

Potato Avoidance

Sailing in a straight line

Even Tier I players will lead a predictable target; learn to make small course changes between salvos to break enemy aim. This is the single highest-impact habit to build at this tier.

Signature Traits

High HP pool ↗

16600 HP, best of T1 CAs.

ELITE MOBILITY ↗

Fast for the class · 26.8 kt
Heavy powerplant · 23000 hp
Holds speed in turns · 47.9 hp
Nimble for the tonnage · 5.64 hp

Saturates bow fast ↗

700 HP bow pool, top decile of T1 CAs. A small pool saturates quickly, after which bow-on penetrations do about a tenth -- angle and they stop mattering.

Best-in-class stealth ↗

7.4 km surface detect, top decile of T1 CAs. Stays dark longer.

Slow reload ↗

9 s reload, bottom decile of T1 CAs. Salvos punish more, but cycle is slower than peers.

Acquisition

How to get Nino Bixio

Nino Bixio is available in the Nino Bixio branch of the Italy Tech Tree as an early line ship.

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Italy Tech Tree

Nino Bixio sits in the Nino Bixio branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full Italy tree.

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Builds

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Cohort position

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Where Nino Bixio sits among Tier I CAs (11 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 points16,600 HP (1 of 2 tied) BestMax speed26.8 kt (1/12) BestStealth profile7.36 km / 4.42 km (1/12 / 1/12) BestSmoke fire bloom2.63 km (1/12) BestEngine power23,000 hp (1/12) BestTurn-speed retention47.9 hp/m (1/12) Top 10%Power-to-weight5.64 hp/t (2/12) Top 25%Deck armor38 mm (3/12) Bottom 25%Traverse-to-turn ratio4.86 × (10/12) Bottom 25%Main battery reload9 s (11/12) Bottom 25%Fires per minute2 (10/11)

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Not standouts for Nino Bixio -- 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.

Rudder shift4.8 s(7/12) Turning circle480 m(7/12) Main battery caliber120 mm(8/12) Main battery range10.01 km(8/12) HE shell damage1,900(5/11) HE fire chance6%(9/11) HE DPM63,333(7/11) Main dispersion90.1 m(5/12) HE velocity840 m/s(4/11) Acceleration24.3 s(7/12) Displacement4,076 t(7/12) AA threat44(5/12) Max armor100 mm(5/12) Citadel belt38 mm(7/12) NormTurn speed retained81%(11 of 12 tied at this value)

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Stats & specs

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Survivability

Hit Points16,600

Displacement4,076 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.

140.3 x 13 m

Armor range6–100 mm

Plate armor thicknesses6, 10, 25, 38, 50, 100 mm

Armor material/layer entries37

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.

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 (1,494 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 (1,660 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.

8,300

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.

5,000

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: citadel10%

Repairable: steering gear50%

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 120 mm/50 Ansaldo 1909

Mounts / barrels8 mounts / 8 barrels

Reload time9 s

Firing range (base)9.1 km

Firing range (top fire control)10 km

Turret traverse8 °/s

Turret armor30 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.

2x 224° arc, 2x 170° port-only, 2x 170° starboard-only, ±159°, ±125°

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.

all guns bear at the bow

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{10008.9}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 90.1 m

90.1 m at 10 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 90.1 \cdot 0.6 = 54 m

54 m at 10 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 90.1 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 27 m

27 m at 10 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 54 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 16.2 m

16.2 m at 10 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 8 deg/s traverse speed = 22.5 s.

22.5 s

Shells/min

5 broadside guns x 60 / 9 s base reload = 33.3.

33.3

HE shells

HE Damage1,900

HE Velocity840 m/s

Fire Chance6%

HE penetration

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

20 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

1,900 HE damage x 5 broadside guns = 9,500.

9,500

HE DPM

9,500 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 9 s base reload = 63,333.

63,333

Fires/min

33.3 shells/min x 6% fire chance = 2.

AA Defense

AA mount points2

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

Guns40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 7 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.9 hit probability = 22 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range2 km

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Maneuverability

Engine power23,000 hp

Maximum speed26.8 kt

Turning circle radius480 m

Rudder shift time4.8 s

Engine power-boost threshold7 kt

Engine spool-up time15.3 s

Reverse spool-up time7.7 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 26.8 / 4 + 4.9 = 11.6 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.

11.6 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.

24.8 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).

8 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (24.1 kt of 26.8 kt), from our in-house acceleration model.

24.3 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (26.5 kt of 26.8 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.

39.5 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{26.8 \cdot 0.5144}{480} = 1.65 ° / s

, so

ratio = \frac{ω_{turret}}{ω_{hull}} = \frac{8}{1.65} = 4.9 \times

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

4.9× drags

See the full acceleration curve ↓

Concealment

Detectability by sea7.36 km

Detectability by air4.42 km

Smoke firing penalty2.63 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.

10.01 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.

6.82 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.

9.36 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.

7.42 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active

Module options (1)

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

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range9,099 → 10008.9 m

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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.

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 Disp90.1 m at 10 km

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:  $σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30$   $= (\frac{10008.9}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 90.1 m$

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.

Shell scatter width @ 10 km90 m

How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.

Max Vert Disp54 m at 10 km

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax$ $= 90.1 \cdot 0.6 = 54 m$

Shell scatter height @ 10 km54 m

How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data:  $radiusOnZero = 0.2$  at 0 m,  $radiusOnDelim = 0.5$  at  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 10008.9 = 5004$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 10008.9 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{10000 - 5004}{10008.9 - 5004} = 0.5998$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 90 \cdot 0.5998 = 54 m$ .

Med Horiz Disp27 m at 10 km

50%-hit horizontal radius: $σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 90.1 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 27 m$

Med Vert Disp16.2 m at 10 km

50%-hit vertical radius: $σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 54 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 16.2 m$

Dispersion familyCruiser Disp.

Standard cruiser dispersion baseline.

HE flight time @ 10 km6.71 s

How long an HE shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag,  $a_{drag} = k ρ v^{2}$ , where  $ρ$  is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and  $k$  bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.267 \cdot {0.12}^{2}}{8 \cdot 22.13} = 6.82 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 840 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77: the game clock runs faster than real time, and that factor was measured against stopwatch runs in the Training Room. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.

HE penetration20 mm

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

Broadside guns used for alpha5

Barrels that can bear on one beam (5 of 8); casemate/wing mounts only fire one side.

Turret turn time22.5 s

180 degrees / 8 deg/s traverse speed = 22.5 s.

HE full-salvo alpha9,500

1,900 HE damage x 5 broadside guns = 9,500.

HE DPM63,333

9,500 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 9 s base reload = 63,333.

Shells/min33.3

5 broadside guns x 60 / 9 s base reload = 33.3.

Fires/min2

33.3 shells/min x 6% fire chance = 2.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range22

Only families that reach 2 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 40mm Vickers 2x1 -> 22 DPS @ 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 range22 DPS @ 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-blank22

Sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2 km).

AA threat index44

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.

Armor Beta

Hull HP 16,600, 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 60+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.

Belt / citadel38 mm

Thin belt: battleship AP citadels straight through it broadside. Rely on angle, speed and concealment, never sit flat.

Farming6 mm

Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 0%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	6 mm primary (range 6–50 mm)	700 (4% of HP)	Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut)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.
Hull (midship)	6 mm	12,500 (75% of HP)	Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut)6 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest.
Stern	6 mm primary (range 6–38 mm)	400 (2% of HP)	Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut)6 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	38 mm primary (range 6–38 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 primary (range 6–100 mm)	700 (4% 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	8,300 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	5,000 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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Balance History

Balance updates affecting Nino Bixio. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.

Buff ×2Main Battery ×2

2025-06-26

Ministry of Balance: Declaration of Changes

Main battery reload time reduced from 12 to 9 seconds.
Main battery maximum HE shell damage increased from 1,700 to 1,900.

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Exteriors

Skins & permanent camouflages

Every custom exterior Nino Bixio can equip, from in-game data.

DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior

Primary official WG sources

Filtered to official World of Warships: Legends pages where this ship is a focus, reward, line member, or high-context variant mention.

2025-06-26 · Patch notes July Update: Of Stars and Freedom Patch notes

Nino Bixio

Nino Bixio Community Stats

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Playstyle

Overview

Positioning

Potato Avoidance

Signature Traits →

How to get Nino Bixio

Builds

Cohort position

Peers in this cohort

Stats & specs

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Main battery formulas

AA defense

Armor Beta

Ship Charts

Balance History

Ministry of Balance: Declaration of Changes

Skins & permanent camouflages

Primary official WG sources

Signature Traits