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Neptune is a Tier VIII British AP-only cruiser with cohort-best AP DPM (576,000): she carries no HE shells at all, so every salvo is AP into broadsides or wasted. The hull is fragile, so the kit is fragile-spammer chasing soft targets and dodging in open water rather than trading punches. She also packs the super-heal, but the kit is offense first, sustain second. Surveillance Radar (10.5 km, 35 s active) is the cap-control consumable on top, so she sets fights as well as winning them. AA (707 AA DPS at 6 km, +100% Defensive AA flak burst) is heavy enough to make her the team's air-defense anchor on top of the lead role; CV strikes route around her, not through. Standout traits: best AP always-pen window in T8 CAs (60°) and best AP guaranteed-ricochet angle in T8 CAs (75°).
Sit 12-15 km on a flank that gives you firing arcs into rotated cruisers and exposed BB broadsides. The hull is fragile; ration trades to ones that pay AP citadels back, and lean on speed and consumables to dodge focus when it comes. Open water is fine when the closest threat is far enough that the salvo timing favors you.
Without HE the wrong target nets over-pens or shatters; pick broadside cruisers and BB sides only, and route around situations where the only shot is into a bow. AP discipline is the kit.
No stat falls into the cohort's bottom decile across T8 CAs. Stable baseline in every category, no glaring weakness to play around.
Flying Dutchman is a premium event variant and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Containers. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
Pirate Chest '26
0.5%
VIII Flying Dutchman + 2,500 Ship Parts
Event containers · Pirate Chest '26
Build for reload, concealment, smoke/utility, AP performance, and survivability. If using the unique damage skill, lean into cruiser and destroyer hunting.
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Where Flying Dutchman sits among Tier VIII CAs (32 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.
The stats below come from the base ship, Neptune. This ship is built on the same hull; in-game data for the variant itself is not available.
All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active
Repair Party2 charges · 60 s reload · 20 s active · 2% heal per second · 40% of max HP total heal
Sonar2 charges · 180 s reload · 98 s active · 5.2 km ship detect · 3.63 km torpedo detect
Defensive AA Fire3 charges · 140 s reload · 25 s active · +100% flak burst boost
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 20 s emit / 110 s cloud active
Surveillance Radar2 charges · 180 s reload · 35 s active · 10.5 km radar rangeNumbers 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.
Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range. (R/30·(idealRadius−minRadius)/idealDistance + minRadius)·30 = (14046/30·(8−1.1)/1000 + 1.1)·30 = 129.9 mVertical dispersion ellipse height at max range = max horizontal × radiusOnMax = 129.9 × 0.6 = 78 m50%-hit horizontal radius = max horizontal × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 129.9 × 0.314 (σ=2.05) = 40.8 m50%-hit vertical radius = max vertical × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 78 × 0.314 (σ=2.05) = 24.5 mStandard cruiser dispersion baseline.Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: 1e-7 × Krupp × mass^0.69 × caliber_m^-1.07 × v0^1.38 = 1e-7 × 2672 × 58.85^0.69 × 0.152^-1.07 × 768^1.38 = 320 mm. Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (19.3 km), where the shell has slowed to 312.2 m/s: 1e-7 × 2672 × 58.85^0.69 × 0.152^-1.07 × 312.2^1.38 = 92.4 mm.floor(152 mm caliber / 6): standard HE penetration.floor(152 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).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.All 12 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.3,200 AP damage x 12 broadside guns = 38,400.38,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4.5 s base reload = 512,000.38,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4 s installed reload (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10%) = 576,000.12 broadside guns x 60 / 4.5 s base reload = 160.12 broadside guns x 60 / 4 s installed Artillery reload = 180.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).range / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).4 launchers x 4 tubes.tube count / 2 (symmetric port/starboard launcher layout; common on cruisers and battleships with deck torpedoes).tube count x per-torpedo simulated damage (all torpedoes hitting).per-side salvo x per-torpedo simulated damage.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (117×3.5×0.9) + (47×3.5×0.85) + (35×3.5×0.9) + (28×3.5×0.9) = 707. 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.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.Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.5 km × 57 + 30 = 315 m.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: 6×2 114 mm (6/side) × 60/3 × 1600 = 192,000. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 1600 from the 114 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 7% from the 114 mm family.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: 19 mm from the 114 mm family.Balance updates affecting Flying Dutchman. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
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