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Mahtaga is a Soviet Tier VIII premium battleship based on Navarin, with excellent concealment and impressive secondary range for close-range encounters. Play her as a concealed approach battleship that turns good positioning into brutal mid-range pressure.
Use concealment to approach on a flank, then engage when secondaries and main guns can work without immediate crossfire. Keep angles tight and disengage before fires stack too high.
With no torpedoes you cannot trade back a fight fought inside enemy torpedo range. Hold the band where your guns and secondaries punish them while their fish still fall short, and lean on armor and volume of fire instead of closing the last few kilometers into a spread you have no answer for.
5.2 km AA reach, best of T8 BBs.
6.0°/s turret traverse, top decile of T8 BBs. Tracks fast-rotating targets peers can't keep up with.
15.2 km surface detect, top decile of T8 BBs. Stays dark longer.
18.0% torpedo damage reduction, bottom decile of T8 BBs. Torps hit for closer to their printed damage.
340.0 mm max plate, bottom decile of T8 BBs. Citadel windows open against peer-tier guns.
Mahtaga 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.
Sunduq
1.5%
VIII Mahtaga
Event · Sunduq
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Build for concealment, survivability, secondary range/accuracy, and main-battery consistency. Fire mitigation matters for close-range work.
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Where Mahtaga sits among Tier VIII BBs (32 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.
Not standouts for Mahtaga -- 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.
Damage Control Party3 charges · 40 s reload · 10 s active
Repair Party3 charges · 80 s reload · 20 s active · 16,240 HP (22.4% of max HP) total heal (per charge) 
Secondary Battery Booster4 charges · 100 s reload · 30 s active · +100% grouping · -50% dispersionAll values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
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.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same verified dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.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.Horizontal scatter at a fixed 15 km, from the same verified dispersion model - the long-range anchor. Only shown when the ship's guns reach 15 km.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: 50%-hit vertical radius: Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: . Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (20.9 km), where the shell has slowed to 541.2 m/s: .68 mm ≈ 406 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(406 mm caliber / 14.3) = 28 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).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.All 12 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 6 deg/s traverse speed = 30 s.5,850 HE damage x 12 broadside guns = 70,200.11,000 AP damage x 12 broadside guns = 132,000.Zero upgrades: 70,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 35 s base reload = 120,343. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 70,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 31.5 s all-upgrades reload = 133,714.Zero upgrades: 132,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 35 s base reload = 226,286. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 132,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 31.5 s all-upgrades reload = 251,429.Zero upgrades: 12 broadside guns x 60 / 35 s base reload = 20.6. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 12 broadside guns x 60 / 31.5 s all-upgrades reload = 22.9.Zero upgrades: 20.6 shells/min x 41% fire chance = 8.43. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 22.9 shells/min x 41% fire chance = 9.37.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (77×3.5×0.75) + (166×3.5×0.7) + (39×3.5×0.75) = 711. 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. Flak is NOT included: flak stops triggering once planes are inside 2.5 km, and its avoidable burst damage is shown separately in the Flak bursts section.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) × 33 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.7 km × 33 + 30 = 261 m.Same per-type line evaluated at a fixed 5 km: 5 km × 33 + 30 = 195 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: 18×1 130 mm (9/side) × 60/6 × 1800 = 162,000 + 8×2 130 mm (8/side) × 60/6 × 1800 = 144,000. 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: 1800 from the 130 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 9% from the 130 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: 27 mm from the 130 mm family.Every custom exterior Mahtaga can equip, from in-game data.
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