Graf Spee B
Also called: 施佩伯爵海军上将 B · Admiral Graf Spee B · Admiral Graf Spee B Beta- Hold 12-15 km from a contested cap with an island close enough to shadow back into, and bow toward the closest BB
- Avoid: Pushing in blind because the kit says brawler
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Across 2,600+ Standard battles from 140+ players, Graf Spee B averages a 61% win rate, 43,000 damage and 1.0 kills per battle, and survives 32% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
Graf Spee B is a Tier V German super-cruiser: a battleship-sized hull with a 283mm main battery on a cruiser frame. She is built to overmatch broadside cruisers with AP, not to brawl with battleships. Sonar (5.3 km on ships and 3.7 km on torpedoes, 114 s active, 180 s reload, long uptime) lights up DDs and torpedoes inside its bubble, which lets her contest the cap edge without taking the spotting cycle. HE pen sits at the 1/4 caliber ratio instead of the standard 1/6, so HE damages angled targets her AP can't, but her HE volume is low: a tool for bow-on targets, not a damage plan. Standout traits: best heavy AP shells in T5 CAs (8,400, 1st of 28) and best AP overmatch threshold in T5 CAs (19.7 mm, 1st of 28). The trade is loose grouping in T5 CAs (1.9, 28th of 28).
Positioning
Hold 12-15 km from a contested cap with an island close enough to shadow back into, and bow toward the closest BB. The heavy bow plate lets you hold the angle against same-tier guns, which is the protection the citadel needs; the hull does not tank battleship volleys broadside even if it can absorb them bow-on. The big guns reach for full AP citadels at that distance. With 10.3 s on the rudder she starts turning late, so the angle has to be set before you are shot at.
Potato Avoidance
Pushing in blind because the kit says brawler
5.3-km Sonar is what makes the close fight winnable, and it only helps once you are already committed; it does not tell you what is waiting two islands over. Push when a destroyer is lit or a teammate holds vision, not to find out who is there.
Signature Traits
- Heavy AP shells · 8400 damage
- Big-caliber AP overmatch · 19.7 mm
- Close-range AP brick · 500.2 mm
- Long-range AP brick · 236.18 mm
- Long gun range · 15 km
- Heavy HE shells · 3200 damage
39400 HP, best of T5 CAs.
- Loose grouping
- Low HE DPM · 57600 HE
How to get Graf Spee B
Graf Spee B is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition paths: Containers and Bundle. 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.
- ContainersAppears in official container odds below; availability depends on the container being sold or awarded.
- BundleAvailable as a Store bundle.
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Best listed chance for this ship
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Black Friday '21 crate
6%
V Admiral Graf Spee B
Event · Black Friday '21 crate
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Champion's Box
1.2%
V Admiral Graf Spee B
Archived · Champion's Box → Black Friday '21 crate
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Black Friday Ultimate Crate
1.002%
V Admiral Graf Spee B
Event · Black Friday Ultimate Crate → Black Friday '21 crate
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Ultimate Crate
0.6%
V Admiral Graf Spee B
Archived · Ultimate Crate → Black Friday '21 crate
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Piñata Chest
0.157895%
Tier V, VI, or VII Premium ship
Event · Piñata Chest · 1 of 19 ships
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Explorer's Chest
0.111111%
One of these ships
Event · Explorer's Chest · 1 of 27 ships
Official WG availability sources
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Black Friday Deals
Bundle
Start: 2021-11-12
- Graf Spee B, Exeter B and Le Terrible B are available on standalone basis or within a bundle, as well as through crates.
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November update: Fury on the wings of wisdom
Crates
Start: 2021-11-04
- If you open 39 containers without obtaining a ship, then you are guaranteed to receive one of the four ships in the 40th container.
- For all four ships, this is 40% for Exeter B, 40% for Graf Spee B, 16.7% for Le Terrible B, and 3.3% for Massachusetts B.
Show direct source rows
- Black Friday '21 crate 6% · V Admiral Graf Spee B
- Explorer's Chest 0.111111% · One of these ships
- Piñata Chest 0.157895% · Tier V, VI, or VII 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
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Cohort position
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Where Graf Spee B sits among Tier V CAs (28 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 Graf Spee B -- 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.
Peers in this cohort
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Customize in the Build Tool →ƒ
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° − 143° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 37° off bow; 180° − 147° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 33° 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: 27% wider (worse) horizontal dispersion and 27% more vertical spread at max range (15.0 km) than a standard cruiser: about 174 m wide × 105 m tall, against 137 m × 82 m. Also on this curve (56): Al Ägir, Alaska, Alaska B, Anhalt, BA Utnapishtim's Ship, Borodino, Brest, Carnot, Champagne, Cherbourg, Congress, Ägir and 44 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 / 7.2 deg/s traverse speed = 25 s.ƒ
6 broadside guns x 60 / 20 s base reload = 18.HE shells
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71 mm ≈ 283 mm caliber / 4 (improved HE penetration: German BBs, Yamato-class, and a handful of others).ƒ
3,200 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 19,200.ƒ
19,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 20 s base reload = 57,600.ƒ
18 shells/min × 0.2 (20% fire chance) = 3.6.AP shells
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floor(283 mm caliber / 14.3) = 19 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 (15 km), where the shell has slowed to 495.4 m/s: .ƒ
8,400 AP damage x 6 broadside guns = 50,400.ƒ
50,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 20 s base reload = 151,200.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
38,100 warhead alpha / 3 + 1,000 blast = 13,700. 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 2.27 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 = 4 x 12,700 = 50,800. 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 3.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Dual-purpose: your secondaries doing double duty against aircraft. The same mounts appear on the Secondary Battery card - shared guns, not extra hardware.ƒ
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 72 from dual-purpose secondaries firing as AA in this range band.ƒ
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.ƒ
Far 72 + Medium 22 = 94ƒ
Effective DPS: 24 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.85 hit probability = 71 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Far 72 + Medium 22 + Near 71 = 165ƒ
Each ~2 s salvo fires 2 AA explosions in quick succession, each leaving 2 clouds ahead of the attacking squadron - up to 4 clouds per salvo × 190 damage each. Planes that fly into a cloud take its damage; clouds dissipate before the next salvo lands. Defensive AA Fire, where fitted, multiplies the AA explosions within each salvo, and commander skills that raise the Number of AA explosions add to it.ƒ
Damage a plane takes for flying into one flak cloud, before any reductions.ƒ
Each cloud in the pattern rolls this chance to spawn, so salvos 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.ƒ
A new flak salvo (the AA explosions above) fires roughly every 2 s.ƒ
Flak keeps firing while at least one secondary battery mount is operational - even losing every dedicated AA mount does not stop it.ƒ
The activation band: flak fires while attacking planes are inside it. Clouds are placed ahead of the planes' path, so clouds can land short of 2.5 km or past 4.5 km - once planes get inside the band, new salvos stop. AA range bonuses push the outer edge out; the 2.5 km inner edge does not move.ƒ
Sum of each gun family's fires/min (per side): 2.6 + 2.5 = 5.2. Per side: the barrels that bear on one broadside target (mounts × barrels / 2). A ceiling: assumes every shell hits and ignores the four-fire cap and Fire Prevention.ƒ
Sum across all secondary families of (per-side barrels × 60 / reload_s × alpha), with each reload counted in whole 1/7 s ticks (guns fire on the first tick after the reload), where per-side barrels = mounts × barrels-per-mount / 2 (the guns that bear on one broadside target). Per-family: 3×2 105 mm (3/side) × 60/3.429 s (3.35 s = 24 ticks) × 1200 = 63,000 + 8×1 150 mm (4/side) × 60/7.571 s (7.5 s = 53 ticks) × 1700 = 53,887. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).ƒ
Fires/min (per side) 5.2 × (1 − 0.233 fire resistance) × 60 s × 0.003 of max HP per second × 54,550 HP = 38,867. Per side: the barrels that bear on one broadside target (mounts × barrels / 2). A ceiling: assumes every shell hits and ignores the four-fire cap and Fire Prevention.ƒ
Secondary DPM (per side) 116,887 + secondary fire DPM 38,867 = 155,754: shell damage plus fire damage against one T5 battleship, every shell hitting.ƒ
Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.ƒ
4 km × 57 + 30 = 258 m.ƒ
Dual-purpose: the same mounts also fire at aircraft, so they appear on the AA Defense card too - shared guns, not extra hardware.ƒ
3×2 barrels / 2 sides × 60 / 3.429 s (3.35 s = 24 ticks) × 0.05 (5% fire chance) = 2.6. Per side: the barrels that bear on one broadside target (mounts × barrels / 2). A ceiling: assumes every shell hits and ignores the four-fire cap and Fire Prevention.Show 1 more gun family
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8×1 barrels / 2 sides × 60 / 7.571 s (7.5 s = 53 ticks) × 0.08 (8% fire chance) = 2.5. Per side: the barrels that bear on one broadside target (mounts × barrels / 2). A ceiling: assumes every shell hits and ignores the four-fire cap and Fire Prevention.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 28.5 / 4 + 4.9 = 12.0 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 (25.7 kt of 28.5 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (28.2 kt of 28.5 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 5.2°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 7.2 − 5.2 = +2.0°/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): 12.38 km x 0.955 = 11.82 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 12.38 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 11.82 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 12.38 km) = 15.03 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 7.43 km + gun-firing bloom 5.66 km = 13.09 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 283 mm × 0.020 = 5.66 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 12.38 km + 2.0 km while burning = 14.38 km.ƒ
Air detectability 7.43 km + 3.0 km while burning = 10.43 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active
Sonar2 charges · 180 s reload · 114 s active · 5.28 km ship detect ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):
Defensive AA Fire3 charges · 140 s reload · 25 s active · ×2 flak burst boost ƒ
Repeats the flak burst pattern ×2 within each salvo - more clouds in the air over the salvo, at the same spots.
Catapult Fighter2 charges · 80 s reload · 70 s active · 5 km patrol radius ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):
Repair Party2 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 5,516 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge) ƒ
0.005 of max HP per second (0.5%) × 28 s effective active time = 0.14 of max HP × 39,400 HP = 5,516 HP: up to 14% of max HP restored per charge.ƒ
0.14 of max HP per charge × 2 charges = 0.28 × 39,400 HP = 11,032 HP: up to 28% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.ƒ
0.005 (0.5% of max HP) × 39,400 HP = 197 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.
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
H = horizontal, V = vertical spread. This ship's curve against the standard cruiser curve, both evaluated at this ship's max range (15.0 km) with the same model as Max Horiz/Vert Disp: horizontal 174 / 137 m − 1 = +27%, vertical 105 / 82 m − 1 = +27%. Shell grouping (σ) is separate: it sets how shells bunch toward the centre of this ellipse.(166.7 × (10 − 1.6) / 1000 + 1.6) × 30 = 90 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.(333.3 × (10 − 1.6) / 1000 + 1.6) × 30 = 132 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.(500 × (10 − 1.6) / 1000 + 1.6) × 30 = 174 m. Horizontal scatter at a fixed 15 km, from the same dispersion model - the long-range anchor. Only shown when the ship's guns reach 15 km.How tall the scatter ellipse is at a fixed 5 km, from the same model, comparable from ship to ship. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 15030 m. Below the kink: , so .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: at 0 m, at m, and at 15030 m. Above the kink: , so .How tall the scatter ellipse is at a fixed 15 km, from the same model. Only shown when the ship's guns reach 15 km. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 15030 m. Above the kink: , so .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 735.2 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 910 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.AP penetration at a fixed 10 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 597.8 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 910 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.AP penetration at a fixed 15 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 496.5 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 15 km (from 910 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.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, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 910 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.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, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 910 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.This ship's HE shells use a 1/4 (~0.25) caliber-to-pen ratio instead of the standard 1/6 (~0.167) - 0.251 in this case. Lets HE pen ~70mm armor instead of ~47mm. Hits every German cruiser (150mm CL, 203mm CA) and BB (350mm+), British heavy cruisers / Lion / Nelson, a handful of other premiums.2 mounts × 3 barrels = 6; all 6 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
1300 m / (65.0 kt × 2.6855) = 7.4 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).8010 m / (65.0 kt × 2.6855) = 45.9 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).2 launchers × 4 tubes.8 wing tubes / 2 = 4: the 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 = 8 x 12,700 = 101,600. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 4.5 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 37mm SKC 30 twin 4x2 -> 22 DPS @ 3.5 km; 20mm Flak 38 4x1 -> 29 DPS @ 2 km; 20mm Flak 38 6x1 -> 43 DPS @ 2 km; 105mm SKC 33 3x2 -> 72 DPS @ 4.5 km.@ 4.5 km: 72 from one family; @ 3.5 km: 22 + 72 = 94; @ 2 km: 22 + 29 + 43 + 72 = 166. 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.22 + 29 + 43 + 72 = 166 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2 km).22 × 3.5 + 29 × 2 + 43 × 2 + 72 × 4.5 = 545. 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.Secondary battery firepower
max(1200 (105 mm), 1700 (150 mm)) = 1700. Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 1700 from the 150 mm family.max(5% (105 mm), 8% (150 mm)) = 8%. Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 8% from the 150 mm family.max(20 mm (105 mm), 38 mm (150 mm)) = 38 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: 38 mm from the 150 mm family.Ship Charts
Background
She belonged to a class of unique ships that combined the features of both battleships and cruisers. The German Navy officially classified her as "Panzerschiff" (armored ship). Armed with 283 mm main guns, the ship was superior to any light or heavy cruiser of her time in terms of firepower, and was only slightly inferior to them in terms of her speed.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 39,400, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are estimates.
Overmatched by 91+ AP 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 23%, fires burn 45s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 19 mm primary (range 19–30 mm) | ≈ 1,970 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm19 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) | 45 mm primary (range 16–100 mm) | ≈ 29,550 (~75% of HP) | No common AP caliber overmatches45 mm: most HE shatters, standard pen from 283mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 19 mm primary (range 19–50 mm) | ≈ 1,970 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 100 mm primary (range 16–100 mm) | 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 | 13 mm primary (range 13–150 mm) | no cap | 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). |
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 Graf Spee B can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
Primary official WG sources
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