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Hermes W is a Tier III British premium aircraft carrier best treated as an aircraft carrier focused on spotting, target selection, and sustained pressure that helps the surface team win key fights. Its value comes from maintaining squadron tempo, spotting key lanes, and striking targets that teammates can punish.
Keep aircraft active over contested caps, isolated ships, and low-health targets while using spotting to help teammates make better trades. Keep the hull safe behind the team while aircraft cycle over contested caps, isolated targets, and low-health ships.
The common throw is overcommitting before the minimap is settled, then losing the ship’s best tools before they can matter late.
Hermes W is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Premium/Event.
AL Formidable and Denis Boyd are useful British aircraft carrier commander directions. Inspirations should support aircraft speed, restoration, survivability, or strike consistency, with the exact choice depending on whether you value spotting uptime or damage output.
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The stats below come from the base ship, Hermes. 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.
Automatic Damage Control Party∞ charges · 90 s reload · 60 s active
Automatic Fighter4 charges · 150 s reload · 55 s active · 5.56 km patrol radius · 4 squadron sizeNumbers 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.
Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (3×3.5×1) = 10. 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.3.5 km × 57 + 30 = 229.5 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: 3×1 102 mm (1.5/side) × 60/4 × 1500 = 33,750 + 6×1 140 mm (3/side) × 60/5 × 2000 = 72,000. 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: 2000 from the 140 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 8% from the 140 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: 23 mm from the 140 mm family.Balance updates affecting Hermes W. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
Every custom exterior Hermes W can equip, from in-game data.
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