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Le Glorieux

Also called: 荣耀 Beta

France · Tier V · Destroyer · Premium · Gaede Variant

Gunboat destroyerDamage from sustained main-battery pressure, not torpedo dumps.

Playstyle

Hold mid-cap distance and lean into gunboat trades from cover where the peer destroyer cannot match your fires-per-minute
Avoid: Burning Main Battery Reload Booster on a hopeful salvo

Key characteristics

High HE / fire outputHigh fire chanceHeavy AP penSonarReload BoosterLow HE DPM

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Community Data

Le Glorieux Community Stats

Across 1,300+ Standard battles from 140+ players, Le Glorieux averages a 67% win rate, 35,200 damage and 1.2 kills per battle, and survives 44% of them.

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Playstyle

Overview

Le Glorieux is a Tier V French gunboat destroyer: her damage comes from sustained main battery pressure on caps and open-water trades. Torpedoes are a secondary threat for closing lanes, not her main damage. With no smoke to reset a bad trade, her positioning has to do the work the consumable would. Her 150mm guns reload in 6.5 s. She also packs the super-heal (1%/s, for 14 s, every 120 s, 2 charges): each Repair Party charge returns dramatically more HP than a standard heal, so her durability comes from sustain alongside the lead trait. Standout traits: best heavy AP shells in T5 DDs (3,700, 1st of 22) and best AP overmatch threshold in T5 DDs (10.4 mm, 1st of 25). The trade is low HE DPM in T5 DDs (65,739, 25th of 25).

Positioning

Hold mid-cap distance and lean into gunboat trades from cover where the peer destroyer cannot match your fires-per-minute. Avoid open-water duels with ships running smoke or radar; the torpedoes are a closer, not the plan, so gunfire from cover wins more than from blue water. Concretely: 10.5 km of reach against 6.6 km of detection leaves about 3.9 km in which you can shoot before the answer arrives. 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. Both phases of a turn are slow (4 s on the rudder, a 690 m circle), so course changes are a plan rather than a reaction: set the angle before you are shot at.

Potato Avoidance

Burning Main Battery Reload Booster on a hopeful salvo

With only 2 charges it is a finisher rather than an opener: spend it on a target that cannot turn away, a broadside battleship or a cruiser already committed to its own attack, where the extra salvo lands as damage instead of splashes. A booster pressed on a maybe is one you will not have when the certainty shows up.

Signature Traits

Engine Boost

+20% speed (about +7.2 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact.

ELITE MAIN BATTERY ↗

Heavy AP shells · 3700 damage
Big-caliber AP overmatch · 10.4 mm
High fire chance · 15%
High fire pressure · 5.48 fires/min
Close-range AP brick · 189.1 mm

High HP pool ↗

15700 HP, top quartile of T5 DDs.

MAIN BATTERY DOWNSIDES ↗

Low HE DPM · 65739 HE
Stiff AP fuse · over-pens plate under 25 mm

Acquisition

How to get Le Glorieux

Le Glorieux is a Premium ship 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.

ContainersAppears in official container odds below; availability depends on the container being sold or awarded.

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Best listed chance for this ship

Pirate Chest '26 4% V Le Glorieux Event · Pirate Chest '26
Treasure Chest '24 4% V Le Glorieux Archived · Treasure Chest '24
Explorer's Chest 0.148148% One of these ships Event · Explorer's Chest · 1 of 27 ships

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Explorer's Chest 0.148148% · One of these ships
Pirate Chest '26 4% · V Le Glorieux
Treasure Chest '24 4% · V Le Glorieux

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Builds

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Cohort position

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Where Le Glorieux sits among Tier V DDs (24 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 caliber150 mm (1 of 2 tied) BestAP shell damage3,700 (1 of 2 tied) LongestAP fuse timer0.025 s (1 of 5 tied) BestEngine power80,000 hp (1 of 2 tied) BestPower / turn radius115.9 hp/m (1 of 2 tied) BestPower-to-weight26.47 hp/t (1 of 2 tied) BestRepair heal rate1 %/s (1 of 2 tied) Top 10%Fires per minute5.48 (2/25) Top 10%Time to 90% speed14.9 s (3/25) Top 10%AP pen at 10 km83 mm (2/23) Top 25%Hit points15,700 HP (5/25) Top 25%Acceleration (0-12 kt)4.8 s (5/25) Bottom 25%Displacement3,022 t (21/25) Bottom 25%Effective HE DPM (incl. fire)107,010 (20/25) Bottom 25%Torpedo range7.5 km (21/25) Bottom 25%Torpedo reload90 s (20/25) WorstTurning circle690 m (1 of 2 tied) WorstHE DPM65,739 (25/25) WorstAP arming threshold25 mm (1 of 2 tied)

See 25 mid-pack stats

Not standouts for Le Glorieux -- 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.

Max speed36 kt(15/25) Concealment6.6 km(15/25) Smoke fire bloom2.47 km(15/25) Air detection3.3 km(16/25) Rudder shift4 s(19/25) Main battery range10.54 km(11/25) Main battery reload6.5 s(19/25) HE shell damage1,800(13/25) AP DPM135,130(9/22) Main dispersion94.1 m(17/25) AP velocity835 m/s(11/22) HE velocity835 m/s(13/25) AA DPS104(11/25) AA range3.5 km(9/25) AA threat235(14/25) Torpedo damage≈12,033(19/25) Torpedo speed65 kt(9/25) Torpedo reaction time7.4 s(10/25) Max armor16 mm(15/25) NormAP ricochet start45°(21 of 22 tied at this value) NormAP auto-bounce angle60°(21 of 22 tied at this value) NormTurn speed retained81%(23 of 25 tied at this value) NormCitadel belt16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value) NormBow armor16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value) NormStern armor16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value)

Peers in this cohort

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Stats & specs

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Survivability

Hit Points15,700

Displacement3,022 t

Armor range10–16 mm

Plate armor thicknesses10, 13, 15, 16 mm

Armor material/layer entries25

Fire resistance

top hull: 1 − 0.7669 fire coefficient = 23.3%. Lowers how often hits set you on fire. It does not reduce the damage a burning fire does per second; fires burn at the full rate on every ship.

23.3%

Fire duration30 s

Fire damage

One unattended fire: 0.003 of max HP per second (0.3%) × 30 s = 0.09 of the pool; 0.09 × 15,700 HP = 1,413 HP on this ship. 4 fire points can burn at once.

0.3% of HP per second

Flood duration40 s

Flood damage

One unattended flood: 0.0025 of max HP per second (0.25%) × 40 s = 0.1 of the pool; 0.1 × 15,700 HP = 1,570 HP on this ship.

0.25% of HP per second

Torp Reduction

1 − 0.333 hull torpedo-damage coefficient / 0.333 unprotected baseline = 0%. Reduces torpedo hit damage. It does not affect flooding: floods start as often and tick at the full rate.

Magazine HP

Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool from the ship's. Penetrating hits wear it down and the turret is likelier to be knocked out as it falls, so a larger pool keeps the guns firing through punishment that silences a peer's.

7,900

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.

4,700

Effective HP

Base 15,700 HP plus everything Repair Party can restore: 0.01 of max HP per second (1%) × 14 s × 15,700 HP = 2,198 HP per charge, × 2 charges = 4,396 HP. Ceiling, not a prediction: a charge only restores damage actually taken, and only the regeneratable share of it. In practice ships realize about half of this, mostly because half the charges go unspent; a charge that is used returns about 97% of the per-charge figure above. Repair Party is one choice in its slot on this ship, so this applies only if you take it.

20,096

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: steering gear50%

Bow section HP

Damage saturation pool for the bow: penetrations here deal their normal share until twice this much penetration damage has landed on the section (2 × 2,100 = 4,200), then further hits on it deal half damage. A penetration deals 0.33 × the shell's max damage; once the section is saturated it deals exactly half of that (0.5 × 0.33 = 0.165 × max damage), so a 3,000-damage shell's pen goes from 990 to 495. Overpens (0.1 × max damage) and citadels (1.0 ×) ignore saturation. Pens on the ship's other, unsaturated sections still deal the normal 0.33 ×. A larger pool keeps that part of the ship taking full damage for longer; a small one saturates fast and protects the ship's HP.

2,100

Casemate section HP

This section has no practical saturation cap: every hit here keeps dealing its normal share of damage (on most ships the citadel; on many destroyers the casemate).

No saturation cap

Hull section HP

Damage saturation pool for the hull: penetrations here deal their normal share until twice this much penetration damage has landed on the section (2 × 11,800 = 23,600), then further hits on it deal half damage. A penetration deals 0.33 × the shell's max damage; once the section is saturated it deals exactly half of that (0.5 × 0.33 = 0.165 × max damage), so a 3,000-damage shell's pen goes from 990 to 495. Overpens (0.1 × max damage) and citadels (1.0 ×) ignore saturation. Pens on the ship's other, unsaturated sections still deal the normal 0.33 ×. A larger pool keeps that part of the ship taking full damage for longer; a small one saturates fast and protects the ship's HP.

11,800

Superstructure section HP

Damage saturation pool for the superstructure: penetrations here deal their normal share until twice this much penetration damage has landed on the section (2 × 1,300 = 2,600), then further hits on it deal half damage. A penetration deals 0.33 × the shell's max damage; once the section is saturated it deals exactly half of that (0.5 × 0.33 = 0.165 × max damage), so a 3,000-damage shell's pen goes from 990 to 495. Overpens (0.1 × max damage) and citadels (1.0 ×) ignore saturation. Pens on the ship's other, unsaturated sections still deal the normal 0.33 ×. The superstructure is not exempt: it saturates exactly like the bow and stern, so shells aimed at it stop dealing full damage once this pool is used up. A larger pool keeps that part of the ship taking full damage for longer; a small one saturates fast and protects the ship's HP.

1,300

Stern section HP

Damage saturation pool for the stern: penetrations here deal their normal share until twice this much penetration damage has landed on the section (2 × 1,300 = 2,600), then further hits on it deal half damage. A penetration deals 0.33 × the shell's max damage; once the section is saturated it deals exactly half of that (0.5 × 0.33 = 0.165 × max damage), so a 3,000-damage shell's pen goes from 990 to 495. Overpens (0.1 × max damage) and citadels (1.0 ×) ignore saturation. Pens on the ship's other, unsaturated sections still deal the normal 0.33 ×. A larger pool keeps that part of the ship taking full damage for longer; a small one saturates fast and protects the ship's HP.

1,300

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 150 mm L/48 Tbts LC/36

Mounts / barrels4 mounts / 4 barrels

Reload time6.5 s

Firing range10.5 km

Turret traverse8 °/s

Turret armor13 mm

Turret traverse arcs

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.

±150°, 2x ±148°, ±141°

Guns to bear

180° − 148° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 32° off bow; 180° − 141° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 39° 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.

32° off bow / 39° off stern

See the firing-arcs diagram ↓

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Dispersion type

In practice: the baseline curve for a standard destroyer -- at max range (10.5 km) shells land in an ellipse about 94 m wide and 56 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.

Standard destroyer

Max Horiz Disp

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the dispersion model:

σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30

= (\frac{10545}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 94.1 m

94.1 m at 10.5 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 94.1 \cdot 0.6 = 56.5 m

56.5 m at 10.5 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 94.1 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 28.2 m

28.2 m at 10.5 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 56.5 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 16.9 m

16.9 m at 10.5 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 8 deg/s traverse speed = 22.5 s.

22.5 s

Shells/min

4 broadside guns x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 36.5.

36.5

HE shells

HE alpha1,800

HE Velocity835 m/s

Fire Chance15%

HE fire DPM vs T5 BB41258

Effective HE DPM vs T5 BB106997

HE penetration

25 mm ≈ 150 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

25 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

1,800 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 7,200.

7,200

HE DPM

7,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 65,739.

65,739

Fires/min

36.5 shells/min × 0.15 (15% fire chance) = 5.48.

5.48

AP shells

AP alpha3,700

AP Velocity835 m/s

Min Ricochet45 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

Fuse Timer0.025 s

Fuse Threshold25 mm

AP overmatch

floor(150 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

10 mm

AP Pen Close

AP formula evaluated at muzzle velocity:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v_{0}^{1.38}

= 10^{- 7} \cdot 1933 \cdot {45.3}^{0.69} \cdot {0.15}^{- 1.07} \cdot 835^{1.38} = 220 mm

220 mm point-blank

AP Pen Far

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (10.5 km), where the shell has slowed to 398.8 m/s:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 1933 \cdot {45.3}^{0.69} \cdot {0.15}^{- 1.07} \cdot {398.8}^{1.38} = 79.4 mm

79.4 mm at 10.5 km

AP full-salvo alpha

3,700 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 14,800.

14,800

AP DPM

14,800 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 135,130.

135,130

AP AOE Radius

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.

Torpedoes

ModuleTorpedoes: 533 mm Vierling

Launchers / tubes2 launchers × 4 tubes = 8 tubes

Reload time90 s

Projectile speed65.0 kt

Range7.5 km

Maximum simulated damage

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:

D_{sim} = α \cdot c = 36, 100 \cdot 0.333 = 12, 033

. 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.

≈ 12,033

Maximum damage (ammunition)

36,100 warhead alpha / 3 + 1,000 blast = 13,033. 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.

13,033

Torpedo module damage

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.

1,000

Torpedo detectability1.3 km

Reaction time

How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning):

t_{react} = \frac{1.3 km}{65 kt \times 2.6855} = 7.4 s

. 2.6855 converts knots to m/s on the game clock. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further.

7.4 s

Flooding chance

This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 2.27 per hit, shown as

2.27 \times 100 = 227 %

. 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.

227%

Torpedo launcher traverse25 °/s

Launch arcscentreline 256°

Torp Turn

Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg:

t_{turn} = \frac{180 °}{25 ° / s} = 7.2 s

7.2 s

Torp Arming205 m

Per-side salvo damage

One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 12,033 = 96,264. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.

96,264

AA Defense

AA mount points10

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

3.5 km

37 mm Flakzwilling 302×2 37mm

20 mm Flak 388×1 20mm

Guns37 mm Flakzwilling 30

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 5 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 1 hit probability = 18 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range3.5 km

Guns20 mm Flak 38

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 26 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 86 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Medium 18 + Near 86 = 104

104

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Maneuverability

Engine power80,000 hp

Maximum speed36.0 kt

Turning circle radius690 m

Rudder shift time4 s

Engine power-boost threshold7.0 kt

Engine spool-up time7.7 s

Reverse spool-up time3.8 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 36 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.9 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.

13.9 kt

Crash stop

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.

13.5 s

Engine boost threshold (reverse)

Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse.

9.8 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (32.4 kt of 36.0 kt).

14.9 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (35.6 kt of 36.0 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.

24.4 s

Guns in a full turn

With the rudder hard over the hull turns 6.8°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 8 − 6.8 = +1.2°/s, so the guns hold the target through the turn. Main Battery Mod. 2 (+20% traverse) and Mod. 3 (−15%) move this line.

hold target (+1.2°/s spare)

See the full acceleration curve ↓

Concealment

Detectability by sea

Base value, no camouflage. With a Grade IV permanent camo (or any disposable camo): 6.6 km x 0.955 = 6.3 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.

6.6 km

With Grade IV camouflage (sea)

Detectability by sea 6.6 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 6.3 km.

6.3 km

Detectability by air3.3 km

Smoke firing penalty2.47 km

Detect when firing (sea)

max(main battery range, sea detectability 6.6 km) = 10.54 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.

10.54 km

Detect when firing (air)

Air detectability 3.3 km + gun-firing bloom 3 km = 6.3 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 150 mm × 0.020 = 3 km.

6.3 km

Detect when on fire (sea)

Sea detectability 6.6 km + 2.0 km while burning = 8.6 km.

8.6 km

Detect when on fire (air)

Air detectability 3.3 km + 3.0 km while burning = 6.3 km.

6.3 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active

Choose one

Repair Party2 charges · 120 s reload · 14 s active · 2,198 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge)
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0.01 of max HP per second (1%) × 14 s effective active time = 0.14 of max HP × 15,700 HP = 2,198 HP: up to 14% of max HP restored per charge.
· 4,396 HP (28% of max HP) total heal (all charges)
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0.14 of max HP per charge × 2 charges = 0.28 × 15,700 HP = 4,396 HP: up to 28% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.
· 157 HP/s (1% of max HP) heal per second
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0.01 (1% of max HP) × 15,700 HP = 157 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.

Sonar2 charges · 180 s reload · 114 s active · 5.28 km ship detect
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Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000): $\frac{176 \times 30}{1000} = 5.28 km$
· 3.66 km torpedo detect
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Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000): $\frac{122 \times 30}{1000} = 3.66 km$

Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +20% speed bonus

Main Battery Reload Booster2 charges · 120 s reload · 15 s active · +50% reload boost

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

vs standard DDStandard

The standard destroyer dispersion curve.

Shell scatter width @ 5 km52.5 m

(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.

Shell scatter width @ 10 km90 m

(333.3 × (8 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 90 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.

Shell scatter height @ 5 km25.4 m

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:  $radiusOnZero = 0.2$  at 0 m,  $radiusOnDelim = 0.5$  at  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 10545 = 5272$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 10545 m. Below the kink:  $k = 0.2 + (0.5 - 0.2) \cdot \frac{5000}{5272} = 0.4845$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 52.5 \cdot 0.4845 = 25.4 m$ .

Shell scatter height @ 10 km53.1 m

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:  $radiusOnZero = 0.2$  at 0 m,  $radiusOnDelim = 0.5$  at  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 10545 = 5272$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 10545 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{10000 - 5272}{10545 - 5272} = 0.5897$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 90 \cdot 0.5897 = 53.1 m$ .

AP pen 5 km133 mm

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  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 1933 \cdot {45.3}^{0.69} \cdot {0.15}^{- 1.07} \cdot 580^{1.38} = 133 mm$ , where 580 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 835 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP pen 10 km83 mm

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  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 1933 \cdot {45.3}^{0.69} \cdot {0.15}^{- 1.07} \cdot {412.5}^{1.38} = 83 mm$ , where 412.5 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 835 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP flight time @ 10 km6.36 s

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,  $a_{drag} = k ρ v^{2}$ , where  $ρ$  is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and  $k$  bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.3059 \cdot {0.15}^{2}}{8 \cdot 45.3} = 5.97 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 835 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.

HE flight time @ 10 km6.36 s

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,  $a_{drag} = k ρ v^{2}$ , where  $ρ$  is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and  $k$  bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.3059 \cdot {0.15}^{2}}{8 \cdot 45.3} = 5.97 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 835 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.

Guns per full salvo (alpha, DPM)4

4 mounts × 1 barrels = 4; all 4 bear on the broadside.

Model inputs

Krupp (AP)1,933

Armor-penetration constant of the AP shell; penetration scales straight with it, so a 10% higher Krupp is 10% more penetration at every range.

AP shell mass45.3 kg

Enters penetration as mass^0.69 and slows the shell's drag deceleration, so a heavier shell keeps more velocity at range.

AP drag coefficient0.3059

Air drag on the AP shell in flight; lower keeps velocity, and with it penetration, at long range.

AP muzzle velocity835 m/s

Starting speed of the AP shell; penetration scales with velocity^1.38.

HE muzzle velocity835 m/s

Starting speed of the HE shell; sets its flight time and lead.

idealRadius8

Horizontal dispersion growth per idealDistance of range, in 30 m units; the slope of the scatter-width line.

minRadius0.5

Horizontal dispersion at zero range, in 30 m units; the intercept of the scatter-width line.

idealDistance1,000 m

Range step over which horizontal dispersion grows by idealRadius.

taperDist4,000 m

Inside this range the scatter width tapers toward minRadius instead of following the line.

radiusOnZero0.2

Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at zero range.

radiusOnDelim0.5

Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at the delim point.

radiusOnMax0.6

Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at maximum range.

delim0.5

Where the vertical-scatter curve bends, as a share of maximum range.

Torpedoes

Estimated torpedo reaction time7.4 s

1300 m / (65.0 kt × 2.6855) = 7.4 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).

Torpedo speed65.0 kt

Travel time to max range43 s

7500 m / (65.0 kt × 2.6855) = 43 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).

Tube count8

2 launchers × 4 tubes.

Per-side salvo8 torpedoes

2 launchers × 4 tubes = 8, all to either side (centreline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).

Full-salvo damage96,264

All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 12,033 = 96,264. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range18

Only families that reach 3.5 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 37mm SKC 30 twin 2x2 -> 18 DPS @ 3.5 km; 20mm Flak 38 8x1 -> 86 DPS @ 2 km.

AA DPS layered by range18 DPS @ 3.5 km, 104 DPS @ 2 km

@ 3.5 km: 18 from one family; @ 2 km: 18 + 86 = 104. 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.

AA DPS at point-blank104

18 + 86 = 104 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2 km).

AA threat index235

18 × 3.5 + 86 × 2 = 235. 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 range2 km

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Background

One of the designs for the "1934 type" destroyer. The ship was designed to be relatively large for her type and featured very powerful artillery armament of 150 mm cruiser caliber guns. This caliber was very unusual for destroyers.

Armor Beta

Hull HP 15,700, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are estimates.

Bow & stern16 mm

Overmatched by 93+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.

Farming10 mm

Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 23%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	16 mm primary (range 15–16 mm)	≈ 785 (~5% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 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)	16 mm primary (range 13–16 mm)	≈ 11,775 (~75% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest.
Stern	16 mm primary (range 13–16 mm)	≈ 785 (~5% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	16 mm primary (range 10–16 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	10 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.

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