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Normandie

Also called: 诺曼底 Beta

France · Tier V · Battleship · Tech Tree: Fast Battleships

Fast battleshipA fast-mover: reposition between lanes and strike first where peers cannot reach.

Playstyle

Anchor a flank at 14-17 km with bow toward the closest threat, then use the speed advantage at 29.5 kn to rotate to the cap that needs a second battleship rather than the one your team already has
Avoid: Using the 29.5-kn speed to push rather than to rotate

Key characteristics

Flat arc HE shellsHolds speed in turnsFragileWeak AA

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Playstyle

Overview

Normandie is a Tier V French fast battleship at 29.5 kn. Mobility lets her rotate flanks battleship-fast and pick fights where her guns get the first salvo. Standout traits: best flat arc HE shells in T5 BBs (921) and best power per turn radius in T5 BBs (167.2 HP).

Positioning

Anchor a flank at 14-17 km with bow toward the closest threat, then use the speed advantage at 29.5 kn to rotate to the cap that needs a second battleship rather than the one your team already has. Mobility means you can pick which fight you are in; do not waste it by holding center the whole match. She is genuinely evasive in both phases of a turn, answering the helm in 13.5 s and carving a 640 m circle, so you can break a salvo and still be where you meant to go.

Potato Avoidance

Using the 29.5-kn speed to push rather than to rotate

The mobility advantage is about picking which cap fight you arrive at, not about leading the brawl line; a fast BB that overextends loses HP that the kit cannot trade back.

Signature Traits

ELITE MAIN BATTERY ↗

Flat arc HE shells · 921 m
Fast HE shells · 4.84 s

ELITE MOBILITY ↗

Holds speed in turns · 167.2 hp
Nimble for the tonnage · 3.34 hp
Fast for the class · 29.5 kt
Heavy powerplant · 107000 hp

Weak AA ↗

97 AA DPS, bottom decile of T5 BBs. Aircraft chew through with impunity; lean on positioning over AA.

Weak torp belt ↗

13% torpedo damage reduction, bottom quartile of T5 BBs. Torps hit for closer to their printed damage.

Acquisition

How to get Normandie

Normandie is available in the Fast Battleships branch of the France Tech Tree for 2,400,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 600,000 credits.

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France Tech Tree

Normandie sits in the Fast Battleships branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full France tree.

7 ships in highlighted branch · scroll to inspect all France lines.

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Builds

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Cohort position

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Where Normandie sits among Tier V BBs (25 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.

BestHE velocity921 m/s (1/26) BestTurn-speed retention167.2 hp/m (1/26) Top 10%Max speed29.5 kt (3/26) Top 10%Engine power107,000 hp (3/26) Top 10%Power-to-weight3.34 hp/t (2/26) Top 25%Rudder shift13.5 s (6/26) Top 25%Turning circle640 m (5/26) Top 25%Acceleration34.8 s (7/26) Top 25%AP arming threshold57 mm (5/26) Top 25%Displacement32,043 t (4/26) Bottom 25%Hit points48,300 HP (24/26) Bottom 25%Main battery caliber340 mm (22/26) Bottom 25%HE shell damage4,700 (21/26) Bottom 25%HE fire chance26% (21/26) Bottom 25%Secondary fire chance8% (20/25) Bottom 25%AP pen at 10 km405 mm (23/26) Bottom 25%AA range4 km (22/26) Bottom 25%AA threat264 (24/26) Bottom 25%Flak per wave (expected)210 (23/26) Bottom 10%Traverse-to-turn ratio2.94 × (25/26) Bottom 10%AP shell damage9,500 (25/26) Bottom 10%Main dispersion223.5 m (25/26) Bottom 10%AA DPS97 (25/26)

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Not standouts for Normandie -- 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.

Concealment14.51 km(20/26) Smoke fire bloom12.12 km(8/26) Air detection11.61 km(20/26) Main battery range16.07 km(8/26) Main battery reload30 s(17/26) Sigma1.6(20/26) Fires per minute6.24(12/26) HE DPM112,800(8/26) AP DPM228,000(10/26) Secondary DPM (per side)166,500(18/26) Secondary HE alpha2,000(8/25) Secondary HE pen23 mm(9/25) AP velocity780 m/s(14/26) Effective HE DPM (incl. fire)159,795(12/26) Repair charges3(13/26) Max armor364 mm(8/26) Citadel belt280 mm(20/26) Bow armor25 mm(16/26) Stern armor25 mm(15/26) Deck armor50 mm(13/23) NormSecondary dispersion bracket57(21 of 26 tied at this value) NormAP fuse timer0.03 s(21 of 26 tied at this value) NormAP ricochet start45°(25 of 26 tied at this value) NormAP auto-bounce angle60°(25 of 26 tied at this value) NormSecondary range4 km(17 of 26 tied at this value) NormRepair heal rate0.5 %/s(24 of 26 tied at this value)

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Stats & specs

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Survivability

Hit PointsInitial: 44,700 → 48,300

Displacement32,043 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.

176.4 x 27 m (published figure)

Armor range12–364 mm

Plate armor thicknesses12, 13, 16, 20, 25, 26, 30, 40, 42, 48, 50, 70, 72, 75, 100, 120, 140, 150, 180, 184, 190, 200, 216, 226, 240, 266, 280, 286, 364 mm

Armor material/layer entries83

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: 20% → 23.3%

Fire duration60 s

Fire damage

Each fire ticks 0.3% of max HP per second for the full 60 s, so one unattended fire burns 18% of the pool (8,694 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 0.5% of max HP per second for the 40 s duration, so one unattended flood costs 20% of the pool (9,660 HP on this ship). Verified against measured flood ticks in replay data.

0.5% 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.

13%

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.

24,200

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.

14,500

Effective HP

Base 48,300 HP plus everything Repair Party can restore: 0.5%/s x 28 s = 6,762 HP per charge, x3 charges = 20,286 HP. Ceiling, not a prediction: a charge only restores damage actually taken, and only the regeneratable share of it. Across 1,826 players in our replay corpus the median ship realized about half of this, mostly because half the charges go unspent — when Repair Party IS pressed it returns ~97% of the per-charge figure above.

68,586

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: citadel10%

Repairable: steering gear50%

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 340 mm/45 Mle 1912

Mounts / barrels3 mounts / 12 barrels

Reload time30 s

Firing range (base)14.6 km

Firing range (top fire control)16.1 km

Turret traverse4 °/s

Turret armor360 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.

±154°, ±132°, ±138°

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.

48° off bow / 42° off stern

See the firing-arcs diagram ↓

AP pen max range327 mm

HE fire DPM vs T5 BB46995

Effective HE DPM vs T5 BB159795

Shell Grouping (σ)1.6

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{16072.1}{30} \cdot \frac{12 - 2.2}{1000} + 2.2) \cdot 30 = 223.5 m

223.5 m at 16.1 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 223.5 \cdot 0.6 = 134.1 m

134.1 m at 16.1 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 223.5 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.6} = 83.8 m

83.8 m at 16.1 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 134.1 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.6} = 50.3 m

50.3 m at 16.1 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 4 deg/s traverse speed = 45 s.

45 s

Shells/min

12 broadside guns x 60 / 30 s base reload = 24.

HE shells

HE Damage4,700

HE Velocity921 m/s

Fire Chance26%

HE penetration

57 mm ≈ 340 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

57 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

4,700 HE damage x 12 broadside guns = 56,400.

56,400

HE DPM

56,400 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 30 s base reload = 112,800.

112,800

Fires/min

24 shells/min x 26% fire chance = 6.24.

6.24

AP shells

AP Damage9,500

AP Velocity780 m/s

Min Ricochet45 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

Fuse Timer0.033 s

Fuse Threshold57 mm

AP overmatch

floor(340 mm caliber / 14.3) = 23 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

23 mm

AP Pen Close

Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v_{0}^{1.38}

= 10^{- 7} \cdot 2408 \cdot 585^{0.69} \cdot {0.34}^{- 1.07} \cdot 780^{1.38} = 607.3 mm

. Matches the in-game spec card.

607.3 mm point-blank

AP Pen Far

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (16.1 km), where the shell has slowed to 498.3 m/s:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 2408 \cdot 585^{0.69} \cdot {0.34}^{- 1.07} \cdot {498.3}^{1.38} = 327.2 mm

327.2 mm at 16.1 km

AP full-salvo alpha

9,500 AP damage x 12 broadside guns = 114,000.

114,000

AP DPM

114,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 30 s base reload = 228,000.

228,000

AP AOE Radius

AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.

AA Defense

AA mount pointsInitial: 16 → 10

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

4 km

37 mm/50 Mle 1933Initial: 37 mm/50 CA Mle 1925 (12×1) → 37 mm/50 Mle 1933 (6×2)

13.2 mm/76 CAD Mle 19294×2 13mm

90 mm/50 Mle 1926 (DP)

Dual-purpose: your secondaries doing double duty against aircraft. The same mounts appear on the Secondary Battery card - shared guns, not extra hardware.

6×1 90mm

Guns90 mm/50 Mle 1926 (DP)

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS in in-game units (raw aura damage × 3.5 × hit probability, summed per contributing aura) - matches the Close-range AA DPS headline's currency. Includes 34 from dual-purpose secondaries firing as AA in this range band.

Range4 km

Guns37 mm/50 Mle 1933

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 11 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.75 hit probability = 29 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Initial: 42 → 29

Range3 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 34 + Medium 29 = 63

Guns13.2 mm/76 CAD Mle 1929

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 14 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.7 hit probability = 34 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range1.2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 34 + Medium 29 + Near 34 = 97

Bursts

Each ~2 s wave fires 2 quick salvos of 1 clouds ahead of the attacking squadron - up to 2 clouds per wave × 140 damage each. Planes that fly into a cloud take its damage; clouds dissipate before the next wave lands. Defensive AA Fire, where fitted, multiplies the salvo repeats within each wave.

2 salvos × 1 clouds

Cloud damage

Damage a plane takes for flying into one flak cloud, before any reductions.

140

Cloud spawn chance

Each cloud in the pattern rolls this chance to spawn, so waves average fewer clouds than the maximum. Often called flak 'hit chance', but spawned clouds always damage planes that fly into them - the roll is on spawning.

75%

Wave rate

A flak wave spawns roughly every 2 s - timed frame-by-frame from gameplay footage and consistent across ships.

every ~2 s

Fired by

Flak keeps firing while at least one secondary battery mount is operational - even losing every other AA mount does not stop it.

Secondary battery

Flak zone

The activation band: flak fires while attacking planes are inside it. Clouds are placed ahead of the planes' path, so bursts can land short of 2.5 km or past 4 km - once planes get inside the band, new waves stop. AA range bonuses push the outer edge out; the 2.5 km inner edge does not move.

2.5-4 km

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Secondary Battery

Mounts24

Firing range4.0 km

Shell Grouping (σ)1

Secondary dispersion type

Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.

Standard

Max secondary dispersion @ 4 km

4 km × 57 + 30 = 258 m.

258 m

Caliber139 mm

Reload time10 s

HE Damage2,000

Muzzle Velocity840 m/s

Fire Chance8%

Armor Pen23 mm

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Caliber90 mm

Reload time4 s

HE Damage1,300

Muzzle Velocity850 m/s

Fire Chance5%

Armor Pen15 mm

Maneuverability

Engine power107,000 hp

Maximum speed29.5 kt

Turning circle radius640 m

Rudder shift time13.5 s

Engine power-boost threshold7 kt

Engine spool-up time23 s

Reverse spool-up time11.5 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 29.5 / 4 + 4.9 = 12.3 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.

12.3 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.

41 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).

8.7 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (26.6 kt of 29.5 kt), from our in-house acceleration model.

34.8 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (29.2 kt of 29.5 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.

55.6 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{29.5 \cdot 0.5144}{640} = 1.36 ° / s

, so

ratio = \frac{ω_{turret}}{ω_{hull}} = \frac{4}{1.36} = 2.9 \times

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

2.9× drags

See the full acceleration curve ↓

Concealment

Detectability by sea14.51 km

Detectability by air11.61 km

Smoke firing penalty12.12 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.

16.07 km

Detect when firing (air)

Air detectability plus the gun-firing bloom (6.8 km, which tracks main-battery caliber x 0.020). Matches the in-game 'Detect Firing Air' value on every captured ship.

18.41 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.

16.51 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.

14.61 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 80 s reload · 15 s active

Repair Party3 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 6,762 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge)
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Heal per second (0.5%) x effective active time (28 s) = up to 14% of max HP restored per charge.
· 20,286 HP (42% of max HP) total heal (all charges)
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14% per charge x 3 charges = up to 42% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.
· 242 HP/s (0.5% of max HP) heal per second
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0.5% of max HP (48,300 HP) per second = 242 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.

Secondary Battery Booster3 charges · 160 s reload · 30 s active · +100% grouping · -50% dispersion

Module options (2)

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

HullTrade-off

Hit points44,700 → 48,300
Rudder shift24.6 → 17.5 s
AA mounts16 → 10
Close-range AA DPS30 → 25

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range14,611 → 16072.1 m

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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)1.6

Max Horiz Disp223.5 m at 16.1 km

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:  $σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30$   $= (\frac{16072.1}{30} \cdot \frac{12 - 2.2}{1000} + 2.2) \cdot 30 = 223.5 m$

Shell scatter width @ 5 km115 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 km164 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.

Shell scatter width @ 15 km213 m

Horizontal scatter at a fixed 15 km, from the same verified dispersion model - the long-range anchor. Only shown when the ship's guns reach 15 km.

Max Vert Disp134.1 m at 16.1 km

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax$ $= 223.5 \cdot 0.6 = 134.1 m$

Shell scatter height @ 10 km86 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  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 16072.1 = 8036$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 16072.1 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{10000 - 8036}{16072.1 - 8036} = 0.5244$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 164 \cdot 0.5244 = 86 m$ .

Med Horiz Disp83.8 m at 16.1 km

50%-hit horizontal radius: $σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 223.5 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.6} = 83.8 m$

Med Vert Disp50.3 m at 16.1 km

50%-hit vertical radius: $σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 134.1 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.6} = 50.3 m$

Dispersion familyEU BB Disp.

Standard BB dispersion. Used as the baseline for cross-family comparisons.

AP Pen Close607.3 mm point-blank

Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity:  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v_{0}^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 2408 \cdot 585^{0.69} \cdot {0.34}^{- 1.07} \cdot 780^{1.38} = 607.3 mm$ . Matches the in-game spec card.

AP Pen Far327.2 mm at 16.1 km

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (16.1 km), where the shell has slowed to 498.3 m/s:  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 2408 \cdot 585^{0.69} \cdot {0.34}^{- 1.07} \cdot {498.3}^{1.38} = 327.2 mm$ .

AP pen 5 km494 mm

AP penetration at a fixed 5 km, read off the same PC-validated ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the canonical community AP formula  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$ . Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP pen 10 km405 mm

AP penetration at a fixed 10 km, read off the same PC-validated ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the canonical community AP formula  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$ . Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP pen 15 km339 mm

AP penetration at a fixed 15 km, read off the same PC-validated ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the canonical community AP formula  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$ . Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP flight time @ 10 km5.41 s

How long an AP 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:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.317 \cdot {0.34}^{2}}{8 \cdot 585} = 2.46 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 780 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 flight time @ 10 km4.84 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:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.317 \cdot {0.34}^{2}}{8 \cdot 431.8} = 3.33 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 921 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 penetration57 mm

57 mm ≈ 340 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

AP overmatch23 mm

floor(340 mm caliber / 14.3) = 23 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

AP AOE Radius55

AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.

Broadside guns used for alpha12

All 12 barrels bear on the broadside.

Turret turn time45 s

180 degrees / 4 deg/s traverse speed = 45 s.

HE full-salvo alpha56,400

4,700 HE damage x 12 broadside guns = 56,400.

AP full-salvo alpha114,000

9,500 AP damage x 12 broadside guns = 114,000.

HE DPM112,800

56,400 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 30 s base reload = 112,800.

AP DPM228,000

114,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 30 s base reload = 228,000.

Shells/min24

12 broadside guns x 60 / 30 s base reload = 24.

Fires/min6.24

24 shells/min x 26% fire chance = 6.24.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range34

Only families that reach 4 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 37 50 CAD Mle 1933 6x2 -> 29 DPS @ 3 km; 13 2 76 Hotchkiss CAQ Mle 1929 twin 4x2 -> 34 DPS @ 1.2 km; 90mm 50 Mle 1926 6x1 -> 34 DPS @ 4 km.

Maximum AA range4 km

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

AA DPS layered by range34 DPS @ 4 km, 63 DPS @ 3 km, 97 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-blank97

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

AA threat index264

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

Secondary battery dispersion

Secondary dispersion typeStandard

Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.

Max secondary dispersion @ 4 km258 m

4 km × 57 + 30 = 258 m.

Secondary battery firepower

Secondary DPM (per side)166,500

Sum across all secondary families of (per-side barrels × 60 / reload_s × alpha), where per-side barrels = mounts × barrels-per-mount / 2 (the guns that bear on one broadside target). Per-family: 18×1 139 mm (9/side) × 60/10 × 2000 = 108,000 + 6×1 90 mm (3/side) × 60/4 × 1300 = 58,500. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).

Max HE alpha2000

Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 2000 from the 139 mm family.

Max HE fire chance8%

Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 8% from the 139 mm family.

Max HE pen23 mm

Maximum HE armor penetration across secondary HE families (caliber × 1/6 for most nations; 1/4 for German/UK BBs). Shells whose pen falls under a plate's armor thickness shatter for 0 hull damage though fire chance still applies. Best on this ship: 23 mm from the 139 mm family.

Armor Beta

Hull HP 44,700 → 48,300 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 & stern25 mm

Overmatched by 32+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.

Belt / citadel280 mm

Citadels come from a flat broadside at close range; held past ~30° of angle, AP shatters or bounces.

Farming12 mm

Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 23%, fires burn 60s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	25 mm primary (range 12–180 mm)	1,400 (3% of HP)	Overmatched by 380mm+ AP (Bayern, Gneisenau)Angle bounces 356mm25 mm: HE pens from 150mm+	Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP.
Hull (midship)	16 mm primary (range 12–364 mm)	36,200 (75% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest.
Stern	25 mm primary (range 12–200 mm)	1,500 (3% of HP)	Overmatched by 380mm+ AP (Bayern, Gneisenau)Angle bounces 356mm25 mm: HE pens from 150mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	280 mm primary (range 20–280 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	12 mm primary (range 12–286 mm)	1,900 (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	24,200 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.
Secondary mount (139 mm mount)	separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP	800 per-mount HP	Destroyed at 0 HP	Per-mount HP for the heaviest secondary on this ship. A mount destroyed at 0 HP is out for the rest of the battle; DCP does not repair destroyed mounts. Smaller (lighter-caliber) secondaries typically share the same HP value.
AA mount (37 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.
Engine (module, research)	engine coefficient (unconfirmed)	-0.050 research estimate	Largest on BB/BC; zero on destroyers	Engine durability isn't a per-ship value in the game data. This small negative coefficient is non-zero only on battleships, battlecruisers, and the heaviest cruisers, and is exactly zero on every destroyer, so it scales with hull displacement rather than any commander skill. Most likely an engine drag or power term in the same family as the deceleration stats; its exact meaning is not yet confirmed.
Rudder (module)	separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP	14,500 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

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Buff ×1

2025-07-31

Ministry of Balance: Back to the Naval Academy

Minor armor update: 120 mm ring between guns and barbettes was added.

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