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Ferrante Gonzaga is an Italian Tier VIII premium light cruiser built on rapid-firing 135 mm guns with HE and SAP, six torpedo tubes and 35 knots. Exhaust Smoke Generator paired with Engine Boost is what defines her: smoke to create a firing position, boost to leave it before the torpedoes arrive. SAP rewards shooting at broadsides and superstructure rather than angled belts.
Fight from smoke or from behind cover at mid range, and keep rotating between engagements. She has the speed to change flanks faster than most cruisers, which is worth more than squeezing an extra salvo out of a position the enemy has already ranged.
The screen is short-lived and the reload is long, so a predictable smoke becomes a torpedo target. Do not fire SAP into heavily angled armour either — it shatters where HE would at least have started fires.
+20% speed, 40 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact, uncommon in T8 CAs.
40.0 s smoke deployment window, top decile of T8 CAs. Lays a longer rolling smoke trail while moving.
11.3 km surface detect, top decile of T8 CAs. Stays dark longer.
19233.0 damage per torpedo, top decile of T8 CAs.
24.67° HE impact angle at max range, top decile of T8 CAs. Lobs over cover.
Ferrante Gonzaga is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Campaign.
Prioritise reload and survivability, then concealment. Skills that improve consumable uptime pay unusually well given how much of her identity sits in the smoke and Engine Boost cycle.
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Where Ferrante Gonzaga sits among Tier VIII CAs (35 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.
Not standouts for Ferrante Gonzaga -- 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.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active
Repair Party2 charges · 60 s reload · 28 s active · 6,302 HP (16.8% of max HP) total heal (per charge) 
Exhaust Smoke Generator2 charges · 150 s reload · 40 s emit / 35 s cloud active · 450 m radius
Engine Boost3 charges · 120 s reload · 40 s active · +20% speed bonus
Defensive AA Fire3 charges · 140 s reload · 25 s active · ×2 flak burst boost 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.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: 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.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.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.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: 50%-hit vertical radius: 23 mm ≈ 135 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(135 mm caliber / 14.3) = 9 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).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.All 12 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 19 deg/s traverse speed = 9.5 s.1,950 HE damage x 12 broadside guns = 23,400.Zero upgrades: 23,400 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7.5 s base reload = 187,200. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 23,400 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.8 s all-upgrades reload = 206,471.Zero upgrades: 12 broadside guns x 60 / 7.5 s base reload = 96. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 12 broadside guns x 60 / 6.8 s all-upgrades reload = 105.9.Zero upgrades: 96 shells/min x 9% fire chance = 8.64. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 105.9 shells/min x 9% fire chance = 9.53.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).2 launchers x 3 tubes.tube count / 2 (symmetric port/starboard launcher layout; common on cruisers and battleships with deck torpedoes).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 19,233 = 115,398.One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 3 x 19,233 = 57,699.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (23×3.5×0.9) + (73×3.5×0.9) + (4×3.5×0.85) + (3×3.5×0.85) + (30×3.5×0.9) = 418. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships. Flak is NOT included: flak stops triggering once planes are inside 2.5 km, and its avoidable burst damage is shown separately in the Flak bursts section.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.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.Hull HP 37,510, 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.
Overmatched by 138+ guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Thin belt: battleship AP citadels straight through it broadside. Rely on angle, speed and concealment, never sit flat.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 40%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bow | 16 mm primary (range 16–30 mm) | 3,300 (9% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)Angle bounces 203mm16 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) | 16 mm primary (range 15–130 mm) | 25,600 (68% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)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 | 16 mm primary (range 6–130 mm) | 2,300 (6% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 100 mm primary (range 13–130 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 | 10 mm primary (range 10–100 mm) | 1,400 (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 | 17,100 magazine HP | Magazine detonation1–30% chance · below ~75% HP | Per-turret powder-magazine HP. Detonation chance scales from 1% (no mag damage) to 30% (full mag damage); this range is the in-game value. Detonation can't roll while the ship is above ~75% HP (the standard detonation-protection threshold, not a per-ship stat). Smaller magazines saturate to the 30% ceiling faster. |
| AA mount (65 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 | 10,200 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.
Every custom exterior Ferrante Gonzaga can equip, from in-game data.
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