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Gryf

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Pan-European · Tier I · Cruiser · Tech Tree: Gryf

HE fire-spam cruiserSustained HE and fires from range or island cover.

Playstyle

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone
Avoid: Sailing in a straight line

Key characteristics

2 sigma accuracyHigh HE / fire outputImproved HE penFragile

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Playstyle

Overview

Gryf is a Tier I European cruiser - a tutorial-tier ship. The kit is for learning basic mechanics: movement, aiming, shell travel time, gun rotation, and reading the minimap. Match impact comes from making fewer mistakes than the other Tier I players, not from gear advantages. Notable: best turret traverse rate in T1 CAs (10) and best flat HE shells in T1 CAs (900).

Positioning

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone. At Tier I the goal is practicing the basics, so pick a teammate to follow and learn how to lead your shots while their ship is in your field of vision.

Potato Avoidance

Sailing in a straight line

Even Tier I players will lead a predictable target; learn to make small course changes between salvos to break enemy aim. This is the single highest-impact habit to build at this tier.

Signature Traits

Improved HE penetration

HE pen at the 1/4 caliber ratio instead of the standard 1/6. HE-spam is a real damage option here, not just a fire-starter; pens roughly 1.5x more armor than a same-caliber peer's HE, unique in T1 CAs.

Flat HE shells

900.0 m/s HE muzzle velocity, best of T1 CAs. Flatter trajectory, easier to land at range.

High fire pressure

9.29 fires/min, best of T1 CAs. Keeps DCP on cooldown.

HE DPM machine

139355 HE DPM, top decile of T1 CAs. Sustained fire pressure.

Fragile HP pool

7550.0 HP, bottom decile of T1 CAs. Trade hits sparingly.

Bleeds speed in turns

16.7 hp per metre of turn radius, bottom decile of T1 CAs. Lateral drag outpaces engine output, so speed drops noticeably during sustained turns.

Acquisition

How to get Gryf

Gryf is available in the Gryf branch of the Pan-Europe Tech Tree as an early line ship.

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Pan-Europe Tech Tree

Gryf sits in the Gryf branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full Pan-Europe tree.

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Official WG availability sources

May update: Galloping Seahorse Store price varies 2022-05-12

Builds Beta

Conrad Helfrich, Janko Vukovich, and Jerzy Swirski are useful European cruiser commander directions. Inspirations usually support accuracy, reload, concealment, agility, or survivability so the ship can keep influencing fights without giving up easy citadels.

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Commanders frequently paired with this ship Jerzy Świrski

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Cohort position

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Where Gryf sits among Tier I CAs (13 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.

BestMain battery reload3.1 s (1 of 2 tied) BestFires per minute9.29 (1/12) BestHE velocity900 m/s (1/12) BestAcceleration6 s (1 of 2 tied) Top 10%HE DPM139,355 (2/12) Top 10%AA threat260 (2/13) Top 25%Rudder shift4.9 s (3/13) Top 25%Main battery range10.32 km (4/13) Top 25%Displacement2,700 t (3/13) Bottom 25%Max speed20 kt (11/13) Bottom 25%Engine power6,000 hp (12/13) Bottom 25%Power-to-weight2.22 hp/t (12/13) WorstHit points7,550 HP (13/13) WorstTurn-speed retention16.7 hp/m (13/13) WorstMax armor10 mm (1 of 3 tied) WorstCitadel belt10 mm (1 of 3 tied) WorstEnd plates10 mm (1 of 4 tied / 1 of 5 tied) WorstDeck armor6 mm (1 of 3 tied)

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Not standouts for Gryf -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort.

Concealment8.55 km(7/13) Air detection5.13 km(8/13) Traverse-to-turn ratio6.11 ×(6/13) Main battery caliber120 mm(9/13) HE shell damage1,200(9/12) Main dispersion85.4 m(9/13)

Peers in this cohort

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Stats & specs

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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.

Survivability

Hit Points7,550

Displacement2,700 t

Armor range6–10 mm

Plate armor thicknesses6, 10 mm

Armor material/layer entries21

Fire resistance0%

Fire duration30 s

Torp Reduction0%

Magazine HP

The magazine is the module a detonation comes from. Penetrating hits to it raise the detonation chance from 1% toward 30% as its HP is worn down, so a larger magazine pool rides out citadel hits longer before a detonation becomes likely.

3,800

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.

2,300

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 120 mm/50 wz. 34/36 Bofors

Mounts / barrels4 mounts / 6 barrels

Reload time3.4 s

Firing range (base)9.4 km

Firing range (top fire control)10.3 km

Turret traverse10 °/s

Shell Grouping (σ)

Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.

Max Horiz Disp

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range. (R/30·(idealRadius−minRadius)/idealDistance + minRadius)·30 = (9382/30·(8−0.5)/1000 + 0.5)·30 = 85.4 m

85.4 m

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range = max horizontal × radiusOnMax = 85.4 × 0.6 = 51.2 m

51.2 m

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius = max horizontal × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 85.4 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 27.3 m

27.3 m

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius = max vertical × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 51.2 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 16.4 m

16.4 m

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.

18 s

Base shells/min

6 broadside guns x 60 / 3.4 s base reload = 105.9.

105.9

HE shells

HE Damage1,200

HE Velocity900 m/s

Fire Chance8%

HE penetration

In-game data: 25 mm = 120 mm caliber / 4.8 (non-standard HE penetration ratio).

25 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

1,200 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 7,200.

7,200

Base HE DPM

7,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 3.4 s base reload = 127,059.

127,059

Base fires/min

6 HE shells x 60 / 3.4 s reload x 8% fire chance = 8.47.

8.47

AP shells

Min Ricochet91 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

AP overmatch

floor(120 mm caliber / 14.3) = 8 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

8 mm

AA Defense

AA mount points4

Close-range AA DPS

Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (21×3.5×0.9) + (8×3.5×0.85) = 90. 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.

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.

3.5 km

40 mm Bofors wz. 362×2 40mm

13.2 mm Hotchkiss wz. 302×2 13mm

DPS21

Range3.5 km

DPS8

Range1.2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Medium 21 + Near 8 = 29

Maneuverability

Engine moduleEngine: 6,000 hp

Engine power6,000 hp

Maximum speed20 kt

Turning circle radius360 m

Engine power multiplier speed threshold7 kt

Traverse-to-turn ratio6.1× slow

Concealment

Detectability by sea8.55 km

Detectability by air5.13 km

Smoke firing penalty3.14 km

Detect after firing main guns8.55 km

Detect Fire Sea10.55 km

Detect Fire Air8.13 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active

Module options (1)

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

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range9,382 → 10320.2 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)2

Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.

Max Horiz Disp85.4 m

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range. (R/30·(idealRadius−minRadius)/idealDistance + minRadius)·30 = (9382/30·(8−0.5)/1000 + 0.5)·30 = 85.4 m

Max Vert Disp51.2 m

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range = max horizontal × radiusOnMax = 85.4 × 0.6 = 51.2 m

Med Horiz Disp27.3 m

50%-hit horizontal radius = max horizontal × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 85.4 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 27.3 m

Med Vert Disp16.4 m

50%-hit vertical radius = max vertical × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 51.2 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 16.4 m

HE penetration25 mm

In-game data: 25 mm = 120 mm caliber / 4.8 (non-standard HE penetration ratio).

Improved HE PenYes

This ship's HE shells use a 1/4 (~0.25) caliber-to-pen ratio instead of the standard 1/6 (~0.167) - 0.208 in this case. Lets HE pen ~30mm armor instead of ~20mm. Hits every German cruiser (150mm CL, 203mm CA) and BB (350mm+), British heavy cruisers / Lion / Nelson, a handful of other premiums.

AP overmatch8 mm

floor(120 mm caliber / 14.3) = 8 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

Broadside guns used for alpha6

All 6 barrels bear on the broadside.

Turret turn time18 s

180 degrees / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.

HE full-salvo alpha7,200

1,200 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 7,200.

Base HE DPM127,059

7,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 3.4 s base reload = 127,059.

Base shells/min105.9

6 broadside guns x 60 / 3.4 s base reload = 105.9.

Base fires/min8.47

6 HE shells x 60 / 3.4 s reload x 8% fire chance = 8.47.

AA defense

Close-range AA DPS90

Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (21×3.5×0.9) + (8×3.5×0.85) = 90. 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.

Maximum AA range3.5 km

Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.

AA threat index260

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

Armor

Hull HP 7,550, 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.

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	10 mm primary (range 6–10 mm)	900 (12% of HP)	Overmatched by 150mm+ (Celebes, Königsberg)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 6–10 mm)	900 (12% of HP)	Overmatched by 150mm+ (Celebes, Königsberg)Angle bounces 127mm10 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	10 mm primary (range 6–10 mm)	≈ 165,500 (effectively no cap)	Citadel pen ×0.50 damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage	Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. Damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead (×0.50 direct pen, ×0.10 over-pen).
Superstructure	6 mm	500 (7% 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	3,800 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 (40 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	2,300 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.

Shell ballistics chart

AP penetration, impact velocity, flight time and impact angle vs range. Click to load the interactive chart.

Exteriors

Skins & permanent camouflages

Every custom exterior Gryf can equip, from in-game data.

DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior

Primary official WG sources

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2022-04-29 · Official ship feature / stats Development Blog - That's a lot of Torpedoes Official source 2022-05-12 · Patch notes May update: Galloping Seahorse Patch notes