G-101
Beta- Play the cap edge where both weapons reach: close enough to trade gunfire with the enemy destroyer
- Avoid: Playing her as only one kind of destroyer
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G-101 Community Stats
Across 5,300+ Standard battles from 170+ players, G-101 averages a 64% win rate, 31,600 damage and 1.4 kills per battle, and survives 44% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
G-101 is a Tier III German gun-and-torpedo destroyer (5.5 km surface detection and 7 km torpedoes): her guns and torpedoes rank close together against her tier's destroyers, so neither carries her alone. Contest caps with gunfire and use the torpedoes to punish the turns and retreats that pressure forces. Standout traits: best AP DPM in T3 DDs (138,000, 1st of 9) and heavy AP shells in T3 DDs (2,300, 3rd of 9). The trade is short gun range in T3 DDs (9.1 km, 11th of 11).
Positioning
Play the cap edge where both weapons reach: close enough to trade gunfire with the enemy destroyer, with torpedo lanes covering the routes the enemy must take to turn or retreat. Go dark between trades so the next salvo or wave is on your terms, and leave before the radar or spot timer matters. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 2 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 5.7 km, so you see it coming with roughly 3.7 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. Enemy sonar (about 3.5 km) reads straight in regardless. With 2.9 s on the rudder she starts turning late, so the angle has to be set before you are shot at.
Potato Avoidance
Playing her as only one kind of destroyer
Holding the torpedoes to keep a gun duel going, or skipping gun trades while you wait for a perfect torpedo window, leaves half the kit idle; she wins fights by using both.
Signature Traits
+8% speed (about +2.7 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable gives a small speed nudge - useful for closing a gap or steadying a torpedo run, not for running anything down.
- AP DPM machine · 138000 AP
- Heavy AP shells · 2300 damage
- Tight pattern at max range · 83.2 m
- Fast reload · 4 s
11000 HP, top decile of T3 DDs.
4 launchers, best of T3 DDs. Each fires its own spread: aim them at different escape routes, or stack them on one line for more hits.
9.1 km main battery reach, bottom decile of T3 DDs. Outranged by peers; close distance or lean on terrain.
10 AA DPS, bottom decile of T3 DDs. Aircraft chew through with impunity; lean on positioning over AA.
How to get G-101
G-101 is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition paths: Event currency and 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.
- Event currencyBought with Sakura coins, a time-limited event currency (Jan 2020).
- ContainersAppears in official container odds below; availability depends on the container being sold or awarded.
While you save up, check active promo codes for free doubloons, camouflages, and other rewards.
Best listed chance for this ship
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Secret Santa '21
0.21%
III G-101
Archived · Secret Santa '21
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Secret Santa '22
0.055833%
Premium Ship
Archived · Secret Santa '22 · 1 of 12 ships
Official WG availability sources
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December 2019 Update Patchnotes
Event currency
Start: 2020-01-27
- G-101 in turn can be obtained for a discounted price of 200 Sakura coins (4 Super Santa crates) until December 30 as well as from a Secret Santa Container.
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Halloween Update: Crimson Tale
Store / event post
Start: 2024-10-10
- Visit the Store to discover ships that participated in historical battles and operations: Oklahoma, Texas, Agincourt, Kawachi, G-101, Bellerophon, Warspite, Arizona, Giulio Cesare, Viribus Unitis, South Carolina, Aurora, Oleg, and Arkansas.
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Honoring the Battle of Jutland
Store / event post
Start: 2025-05-19
- Aside from the three new ships, several returning ships are making their way back to the Store—some of which also took part in the Battle of Jutland.
- German battleship Von der Tann and destroyer G-101 in a bundle with Commander Reinhard Scheer
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Freebies and Sales
Free reward
Start: 2021-07-23
- For those of you who have various subscriptions, there are also additional perks such as the Navy of the Realm bundle (live for Xbox Game Pass subscribers; available from August 3 for PlayStation Plus subscribers).
- German Tier III Premium destroyer G-101
Show direct source rows
- Secret Santa '21 0.21% · III G-101
- Secret Santa '22 0-0.055833% · Premium Ship
Want the full picture? Each container page charts the odds as you open more crates - including pity guaranteed-reward timers and, for GD Supporters, pack math personalized to your port.
Builds
Pair with a commander whose unique skill complements her main armament; check the build tool for current recommendations.
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Cohort position
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Where G-101 sits among Tier III DDs (10 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.
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Not standouts for G-101 -- 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.
Stats & specs
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How far each mount can train, in degrees to either side of the mount's own facing. 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.ƒ
180° − 152° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 28° off bow; 180° − 150° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 30° off stern. 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.ƒ
In practice: the baseline curve for a standard destroyer -- at max range (9.1 km) shells land in an ellipse about 83 m wide and 50 m tall. Also on this curve (225): AL Avrora, AL Yukikaze, AL Z24, Acasta, Achilles, Adriatico, Aigle, Akatsuki, Akizuki, Albany, Allen M. Sumner, Attilio Regolo and 213 more.ƒ
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the dispersion model:ƒ
Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:ƒ
50%-hit horizontal radius:ƒ
50%-hit vertical radius:ƒ
180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.ƒ
4 broadside guns x 60 / 4 s base reload = 60.HE shells
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18 mm ≈ 105 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).ƒ
1,200 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 4,800.ƒ
4,800 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4 s base reload = 72,000.ƒ
60 shells/min × 0.05 (5% fire chance) = 3.AP shells
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floor(105 mm caliber / 14.3) = 7 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).ƒ
AP formula evaluated at muzzle velocity: .ƒ
Same formula at the ship's max firing range (9.1 km), where the shell has slowed to 261.5 m/s: .ƒ
2,300 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 9,200.ƒ
9,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4 s base reload = 138,000.ƒ
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.ƒ
Most targets only intersect one hull section, so a hit transfers about 1/3 of the warhead alpha (2/3 when the warhead blast >= 5000 and the burst reaches a second section). For this ship: . In battle, a hit on the torpedo belt deals the per-hit figure × (1 − the target's torpedo protection %), a bow or stern hit deals it in full, and a torpedo never counts as a citadel hit.ƒ
29,400 warhead alpha / 3 + 800 blast = 10,600. Warhead alpha / 3 plus the blast addend: the per-torpedo damage figure. The 'Maximum simulated damage' row above applies target geometry to the same warhead.ƒ
Per-torpedo module/blast damage parameter. 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.ƒ
How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning): . 2.6855 converts knots to m/s on the game clock. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further.ƒ
This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 1.73 per hit, shown as . 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.ƒ
Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg: .ƒ
One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 5 x 9,800 = 49,000. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.ƒ
Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 1 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Effective DPS: 3 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 10 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 33.5 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.3 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.ƒ
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, using the ship's own reverse-power ratio. The full curve is on the acceleration chart. Full reverse stops about a quarter faster than a plain Stop order from top speed.ƒ
Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse.ƒ
Time to reach 90% of top speed (30.2 kt of 33.5 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (33.2 kt of 33.5 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.ƒ
With the rudder hard over the hull turns 8.3°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 10 − 8.3 = +1.7°/s, so the guns hold the target through the turn. Main Battery Mod. 2 (+20% traverse) and Mod. 3 (−15%) move this line.ƒ
Base value, no camouflage. With a Grade IV permanent camo (or any disposable camo): 5.53 km x 0.955 = 5.28 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 5.53 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 5.28 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 5.53 km) = 9.1 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.ƒ
Air detectability 2.77 km + gun-firing bloom 2.1 km = 4.87 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 105 mm × 0.020 = 2.1 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 5.53 km + 2.0 km while burning = 7.53 km.ƒ
Air detectability 2.77 km + 3.0 km while burning = 5.77 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 20 s emit / 53 s cloud active · 450 m radius
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonus
Under the hood
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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
The constants behind the formulas and the long tail: shell and dispersion inputs, fixed-range anchors, salvo math, layered AA. Click the formula chip on any row to see how it is calculated.
Main battery formulas
The standard destroyer dispersion curve.(166.7 × (8 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 52.5 m. Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.AP penetration at a fixed 5 km, from the same ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the AP formula , where 394.5 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 715 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.4 mounts × 1 barrels = 4; all 4 bear on the broadside.Model inputs
Armor-penetration constant of the AP shell; penetration scales straight with it, so a 10% higher Krupp is 10% more penetration at every range.Enters penetration as mass^0.69 and slows the shell's drag deceleration, so a heavier shell keeps more velocity at range.Air drag on the AP shell in flight; lower keeps velocity, and with it penetration, at long range.Starting speed of the AP shell; penetration scales with velocity^1.38.Starting speed of the HE shell; sets its flight time and lead.Horizontal dispersion growth per idealDistance of range, in 30 m units; the slope of the scatter-width line.Horizontal dispersion at zero range, in 30 m units; the intercept of the scatter-width line.Range step over which horizontal dispersion grows by idealRadius.Inside this range the scatter width tapers toward minRadius instead of following the line.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at zero range.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at the delim point.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at maximum range.Where the vertical-scatter curve bends, as a share of maximum range.Torpedoes
1000 m / (54.0 kt × 2.6855) = 6.9 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).6990 m / (54.0 kt × 2.6855) = 48.2 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).1 + 1 + 2 + 2 tubes.4 centreline + (2 wing tubes / 2) = 5: centreline launchers train to either side; wing launchers sit one per beam, so only half of them reach any one side. Each launcher reloads on its own, so she can fire one beam, turn, and fire the other without waiting.All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 9,800 = 58,800. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 1 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: MachineGunMaxim 7 62 2x1 -> 10 DPS @ 1 km.@ 1 km: 10 from one family. 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.10 = 10 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (1 km).10 × 1 = 10. 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.Ship Charts
Background
This destroyer was built in Germany for the Argentine Navy. However, she was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy at the outbreak of World War I. Compared to V-25-class destroyers, she was larger in size and had more guns, but was slower.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 11,000, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds.
Overmatched by 96+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 10%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 10 mm | 1,300 (12% of HP) | Overmatched by 150mm+ AP (Java, Taranto)Angle bounces 127mm10 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 | 10 mm primary (range 10–13 mm) | 1,500 (14% of HP) | Overmatched by 150mm+ AP (Java, Taranto)Angle bounces 127mm10 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 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 | 10 mm primary (range 10–13 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 | 5,500 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 (8 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 | 3,300 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.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior G-101 can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
Primary official WG sources
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