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Mahtaga

Also called: 马赫塔加 Beta

U.S.S.R. · Tier VIII · Battleship · Premium · Navarin Variant

Secondary battleshipA brawler: close the distance and the secondaries work alongside the mains.

Playstyle

Push to within secondary range (~7 km) so the secondary battery starts contributing damage
Avoid: Torpedo Boat Brawling; with no torpedoes you cannot trade back a fight fought inside enemy torpedo range

Key characteristics

Strong secondaries (7 km)Stealthy (15.2 km)Tight turning circleDeep effective HPLong-reach AALoose grouping

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Community Data

Mahtaga Community Stats

Across 190+ Standard battles from 25 players, Mahtaga averages a 60% win rate, 74,000 damage and 0.8 kills per battle, and survives 35% of them.

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Playstyle

Overview

Mahtaga is a Tier VIII Soviet secondary battleship with top-decile secondary reach out to 7 km: the kit rewards closing inside secondary range and letting the auto-fire battery work alongside the mains, not holding mid-range AP lines. She also packs the super-heal (1.1%/s, for 20 s, every 80 s, 3 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: secondary dispersion in T8 BBs (261 m, 3rd of 33) and heavy secondary DPM in T8 BBs (306,000, 7th of 33). The trade is loose grouping in T8 BBs (1.5, 32nd of 33).

Positioning

Push to within secondary range (~7 km) so the secondary battery starts contributing damage. A secondary BB at mid range is wasting half her kit; the geometry that pays out is close enough that the secondaries DPM peer BBs instead of the main battery alone. Once the rudder is over she turns tightly for her cohort (770 m), so a committed turn costs less water than most of what she is fighting.

Potato Avoidance

Torpedo Boat Brawling

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.

Signature Traits

ELITE SECONDARIES ↗

Tighter secondary dispersion · 261 m
Extended secondary range · 7 km
Heavy secondary DPM · 306000 secondary

Tight turning circle ↗

770 m turning circle, top quartile of T8 BBs. Comes around faster to bring the guns to bear or roll away from incoming fire.

Deep effective HP ↗

121220 effective HP once Repair Party is counted, top decile of T8 BBs. Absorbs more total punishment than the raw HP pool suggests.

Best-in-class stealth ↗

15.2 km surface detect, top decile of T8 BBs. Stays dark longer.

Loose grouping ↗

Sigma 1.5, bottom decile of T8 BBs. Shells scatter more; bracketing matters.

No torpedo backup

A brawler with no torpedoes: every trade is guns and secondaries. The sweet spot is inside secondary range but outside easy torpedo range -- close enough that the auto-fire battery works, not so close that a destroyer or torpedo cruiser lands a salvo you can't answer.

Acquisition

How to get Mahtaga

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.

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

While you save up, check active promo codes for free doubloons, camouflages, and other rewards.

Best listed chance for this ship

Sunduq 1.5% VIII Mahtaga Event · Sunduq
Explorer's Chest 0.090909% One of these ships Event · Explorer's Chest · 1 of 11 ships

Official WG availability sources

Golden Tides Arrive: New Ships and Commander Guises Crates Start: 2025-09-08
- Four of them—Sharki, Mahtaga, Mirage, and Kheper—are available in the Store and via Sunduq crates, while the fifth, Desert Falcon, can be obtained exclusively through the "On Golden Tides" DLC.

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Explorer's Chest 0.090909% · One of these ships
Sunduq 1.5% · VIII Mahtaga

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Builds

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Cohort position

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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.

BestAA range5.2 km (1 of 11 tied) Top 10%Stealth profile15.2 km / 12.16 km (3/33 / 3/33) Top 10%Turning circle770 m (3/33) Top 10%Secondary dispersion bracket33 (3/33) Top 25%Fires per minute8.43 (5/31) Top 25%Secondary DPM (per side)306,000 (7/33) Top 25%Secondary HE pen27 mm (5/31) Top 25%Secondary range7 km (5/33) Top 25%AA DPS711 (7/33) Top 25%AA threat2,255 (9/33) Top 25%Flak damage per salvo (expected)1,800 (7/33) Top 25%Repair heal rate1.12 %/s (6/33) Bottom 25%Max speed27.5 kt (28/33) Bottom 25%Main battery reload35 s (29/33) Bottom 25%AP shell damage11,000 (29/33) Bottom 25%Secondary HE alpha1,800 (25/31) Bottom 25%HE velocity793 m/s (27/31) Bottom 25%Time to 90% speed35.7 s (27/33) Bottom 25%Acceleration (0-12 kt)15 s (30/33) Bottom 10%Main battery range16.74 km (31/33) Bottom 10%Engine power100,000 hp (31/33) Bottom 10%Power / turn radius129.9 hp/m (31/33) Bottom 10%Power-to-weight2.02 hp/t (31/33) WorstSigma1.5 (1 of 3 tied) WorstNo torpedoes (26 of 33 in cohort) WorstMax armor340 mm (1 of 2 tied)

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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.

Hit points72,500 HP(23/33) Smoke fire bloom14.66 km(11/33) Rudder shift16.1 s(11/33) Main battery caliber406 mm(19/33) HE shell damage5,850(13/31) HE DPM120,343(13/31) AP DPM226,286(21/33) Main dispersion227.4 m(15/33) Secondary fire chance9%(13/31) AP velocity793 m/s(23/33) AP arming threshold68 mm(17/33) Displacement49,529 t(11/33) AP pen at 10 km581 mm(25/33) Effective HE DPM (incl. fire)189,445(9/31) Repair charges3(14/33) NormAP fuse timer0.033 s(30 of 33 tied at this value) NormAP ricochet start45°(29 of 33 tied at this value) NormAP auto-bounce angle60°(29 of 33 tied at this value) NormTurn speed retained81%(32 of 33 tied at this value)

Peers in this cohort

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Stats & specs

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Survivability

Hit Points72,500

Displacement49,529 t

Hull dimensions

Length x beam at the waterline, plus draft. Length matters when dodging torpedoes; beam and draft shape how hard the ship is to hit.

216.7 x 31.2 m

Armor range19–340 mm

Plate armor thicknesses19, 25, 32, 35, 50, 75, 113, 125, 181, 230, 300, 340 mm

Armor material/layer entries66

Fire resistance

top hull: 1 − 0.6004 fire coefficient = 40%. 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.

40%

Fire duration60 s

Fire damage

One unattended fire: 0.003 of max HP per second (0.3%) × 60 s = 0.18 of the pool; 0.18 × 72,500 HP = 13,050 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: 0.005 of max HP per second (0.5%) × 40 s = 0.2 of the pool; 0.2 × 72,500 HP = 14,500 HP on this ship.

0.5% of HP per second

Torp Reduction

1 − 0.274 hull torpedo-damage coefficient / 0.333 unprotected baseline = 18%. Reduces torpedo hit damage. It does not affect flooding: floods start as often and tick at the full rate.

18%

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.

34,700

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.

21,800

Effective HP

Base 72,500 HP plus everything Repair Party can restore: 0.0112 of max HP per second (1.12%) × 20 s × 72,500 HP = 16,240 HP per charge, × 3 charges = 48,720 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.

103,571–121,220

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: citadel30%

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 × 2,800 = 5,600), 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.

2,800

Casemate section HP

Damage saturation pool for the casemate: penetrations here deal their normal share until twice this much penetration damage has landed on the section (2 × 15,100 = 30,200), 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.

15,100

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 × 54,400 = 108,800), 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.

54,400

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 × 2,600 = 5,200), 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 ×. 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.

2,600

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

Citadel 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

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 406 mm/45 MK-4-16

Mounts / barrels3 mounts / 12 barrels

Reload time35 s

Firing range16.7 km

Turret traverse6 °/s

Turret armor400 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.

±143°

Guns to bear

180° − 150° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 30° off bow; 180° − 143° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 37° 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.

30° off bow / 37° off stern

See the firing-arcs diagram ↓

Shell Grouping (σ)1.5

Dispersion type

In practice: the baseline curve for a standard battleship -- at max range (16.7 km) shells land in an ellipse about 227 m wide and 136 m tall. Also on this curve (68): AL New Jersey, Agincourt, Alabama, Alabama B, Arizona, Arkansas, Arkansas FE, Atlântico, BA Montana, Bellerophon, Bourgogne, California and 56 more.

Standard battleship

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{16740}{30} \cdot \frac{12 - 2}{1000} + 2) \cdot 30 = 227.4 m

227.4 m at 16.7 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 227.4 \cdot 0.6 = 136.4 m

136.4 m at 16.7 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 227.4 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.5} = 91 m

91 m at 16.7 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 136.4 \cdot \frac{0.6}{1.5} = 54.6 m

54.6 m at 16.7 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 6 deg/s traverse speed = 30 s.

30 s

Shells/min

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 / 31.571 s (31.5 s = 221 ticks) all-upgrades reload (35 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 31.5 s) = 22.8.

Initial: 20.6 → 22.8

HE shells

HE alpha5,850

HE Velocity793 m/s

Fire Chance41%

HE fire DPM vs T8 BB69138

Effective HE DPM vs T8 BB189480

HE penetration

68 mm ≈ 406 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

68 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

5,850 HE damage x 12 broadside guns = 70,200.

70,200

HE DPM

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 / 31.571 s (31.5 s = 221 ticks) all-upgrades reload (35 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 31.5 s) = 133,412.

Initial: 120,343 → 133,412

Fires/min

Zero upgrades: 20.6 shells/min × 0.41 (41% fire chance) = 8.43. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 22.8 shells/min × 0.41 (41% fire chance) = 9.35.

Initial: 8.43 → 9.35

AP shells

AP alpha11,000

AP Velocity793 m/s

Min Ricochet45 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

Fuse Timer0.033 s

Fuse Threshold68 mm

AP pen max range492 mm

AP overmatch

floor(406 mm caliber / 14.3) = 28 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

28 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 2300 \cdot 1116^{0.69} \cdot {0.406}^{- 1.07} \cdot 793^{1.38} = 766.5 mm

766.5 mm point-blank

AP Pen Far

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (16.7 km), where the shell has slowed to 575.1 m/s:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 2300 \cdot 1116^{0.69} \cdot {0.406}^{- 1.07} \cdot {575.1}^{1.38} = 492 mm

492 mm at 16.7 km

AP full-salvo alpha

11,000 AP damage x 12 broadside guns = 132,000.

132,000

AP DPM

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 / 31.571 s (31.5 s = 221 ticks) all-upgrades reload (35 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 31.5 s) = 250,860.

Initial: 226,286 → 250,860

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.

200

AA Defense

AA mount points28

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.

5.2 km

37 mm V-1118×2 37mm

23 mm 4U-2310×4 23mm

130 mm/60 BL-101 (DP)

Dual-purpose: your secondaries doing double duty against aircraft. The same mounts appear on the Secondary Battery card - shared guns, not extra hardware.

8×2 130mm

Guns130 mm/60 BL-101 (DP)

Continuous DPS

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 102 from dual-purpose secondaries firing as AA in this range band.

102

Range5.2 km

Guns37 mm V-11

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 77 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.75 hit probability = 202 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

202

Range3.5 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 102 + Medium 202 = 304

304

Guns23 mm 4U-23

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 166 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.7 hit probability = 407 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

407

Range2.5 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 102 + Medium 202 + Near 407 = 711

711

AA explosions

Each ~2 s salvo fires 2 AA explosions in quick succession, each leaving 4 clouds ahead of the attacking squadron, plus 2 stray clouds farther out that appear off-beat between salvos - up to 10 clouds per salvo × 240 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.

2 per salvo, 4 clouds each + 2 outer clouds

Cloud damage

Damage a plane takes for flying into one flak cloud, before any reductions.

240

Cloud spawn chance

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.

75%

Salvo interval

A new flak salvo (the AA explosions above) fires roughly every 2 s.

every ~2 s

Fired by

Flak keeps firing while at least one secondary battery mount is operational - even losing every dedicated AA mount does not stop it.

Secondary battery

Flak zone

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 5.2 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.

2.5-5.2 km

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Secondary Battery

Mounts26

Firing range7.0 km

Shell Grouping (σ)1

Total secondary fires/min (per side)

Sum of each gun family's fires/min (per side): 8.1 + 7.2 = 15.3. 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.

15.3

Secondary DPM (per side)

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: 18×1 130 mm (9/side) × 60/6 s × 1800 = 162,000 + 8×2 130 mm (8/side) × 60/6 s × 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).

306,000

Secondary fire DPM vs T8 BB (per side)

Fires/min (per side) 15.3 × (1 − 0.4 fire resistance) × 60 s × 0.003 of max HP per second × 75,900 HP = 125,417. 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.

125,417

Total secondary DPM vs T8 BB (per side)

Secondary DPM (per side) 306,000 + secondary fire DPM 125,417 = 431,417: shell damage plus fire damage against one T8 battleship, every shell hitting.

431,417

Secondary dispersion type

Max dispersion = range (km) × 33 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.

Improved (40%, German battlecruiser type)

Max secondary dispersion @ 7 km

7 km × 33 + 30 = 261 m.

261 m

Caliber130 mm

Reload time6 s

HE alpha1,800

Muzzle Velocity823 m/s

Fire Chance9%

Secondary fires/min (per side)

18×1 barrels / 2 sides × 60 / 6 s × 0.09 (9% fire chance) = 8.1. 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.

8.1

HE Pen27 mm

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Caliber130 mm

Reload time6 s

HE alpha1,800

Muzzle Velocity823 m/s

Fire Chance9%

Secondary fires/min (per side)

8×2 barrels / 2 sides × 60 / 6 s × 0.09 (9% fire chance) = 7.2. 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.

7.2

HE Pen27 mm

Maneuverability

Engine power100,000 hp

Maximum speed27.5 kt

Turning circle radius770 m

Rudder shift time16.1 s

Engine power-boost threshold7.0 kt

Engine spool-up time23 s

Reverse spool-up time11.5 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 27.5 / 4 + 4.9 = 11.8 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.

11.8 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.

49.2 s

Engine boost threshold (reverse)

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

9.0 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (24.8 kt of 27.5 kt).

35.7 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (27.2 kt of 27.5 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.

57.2 s

Guns in a full turn

With the rudder hard over the hull turns 4.0°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 6 − 4.0 = +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.

hold target (+2.0°/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): 15.2 km x 0.955 = 14.52 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.

15.2 km

With Grade IV camouflage (sea)

Detectability by sea 15.2 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 14.52 km.

14.52 km

Detectability by air12.16 km

Smoke firing penalty14.66 km

Detect when firing (sea)

max(main battery range, sea detectability 15.2 km) = 16.74 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.

16.74 km

Detect when firing (air)

Air detectability 12.16 km + gun-firing bloom 8.12 km = 20.28 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 406 mm × 0.020 = 8.12 km.

20.28 km

Detect when on fire (sea)

Sea detectability 15.2 km + 2.0 km while burning = 17.2 km.

17.2 km

Detect when on fire (air)

Air detectability 12.16 km + 3.0 km while burning = 15.16 km.

15.16 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

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)
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0.0112 of max HP per second (1.12%) × 20 s effective active time = 0.224 of max HP × 72,500 HP = 16,240 HP: up to 22.4% of max HP restored per charge.
· 48,720 HP (67.2% of max HP) total heal (all charges)
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0.224 of max HP per charge × 3 charges = 0.672 × 72,500 HP = 48,720 HP: up to 67.2% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.
· 812 HP/s (1.12% of max HP) heal per second
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0.0112 (1.12% of max HP) × 72,500 HP = 812 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.

Enhanced Secondary Targeting4 charges · 100 s reload · 30 s active · +100% grouping · -50% dispersion

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 BBStandard

The standard battleship dispersion curve.

Shell scatter width @ 5 km110 m

(166.7 × (12 − 2) / 1000 + 2) × 30 = 110 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 km160 m

(333.3 × (12 − 2) / 1000 + 2) × 30 = 160 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 width @ 15 km210 m

(500 × (12 − 2) / 1000 + 2) × 30 = 210 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.

Shell scatter height @ 5 km41.7 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  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 16740 = 8370$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 16740 m. Below the kink:  $k = 0.2 + (0.5 - 0.2) \cdot \frac{5000}{8370} = 0.3792$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 110 \cdot 0.3792 = 41.7 m$ .

Shell scatter height @ 10 km83.1 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  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 16740 = 8370$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 16740 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{10000 - 8370}{16740 - 8370} = 0.5195$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 160 \cdot 0.5195 = 83.1 m$ .

Shell scatter height @ 15 km121.6 m

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:  $radiusOnZero = 0.2$  at 0 m,  $radiusOnDelim = 0.5$  at  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 16740 = 8370$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 16740 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{15000 - 8370}{16740 - 8370} = 0.5792$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 210 \cdot 0.5792 = 121.6 m$ .

AP pen 5 km666 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  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 2300 \cdot 1116^{0.69} \cdot {0.406}^{- 1.07} \cdot {715.9}^{1.38} = 666 mm$ , where 715.9 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 793 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 km581 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  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 2300 \cdot 1116^{0.69} \cdot {0.406}^{- 1.07} \cdot {648.4}^{1.38} = 581 mm$ , where 648.4 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 793 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 15 km512 mm

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  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 2300 \cdot 1116^{0.69} \cdot {0.406}^{- 1.07} \cdot 592^{1.38} = 512 mm$ , where 592 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 15 km (from 793 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 km5.07 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:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.289 \cdot {0.406}^{2}}{8 \cdot 1116} = 1.68 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 793 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 km5.07 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:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.289 \cdot {0.406}^{2}}{8 \cdot 1116} = 1.68 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 793 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)12

3 mounts × 4 barrels = 12; all 12 bear on the broadside.

Model inputs

Krupp (AP)2,300

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 mass1,116 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 coefficient0.289

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

AP muzzle velocity793 m/s

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

HE muzzle velocity793 m/s

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

idealRadius12

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

minRadius2

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.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range102

Only families that reach 5.2 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 37mm 67 V21 18x2 -> 202 DPS @ 3.5 km; 23mm 4U 23 quadruple 10x4 -> 407 DPS @ 2.5 km; 130mm 60 BL 101 B 8x2 -> 102 DPS @ 5.2 km.

AA DPS layered by range102 DPS @ 5.2 km, 304 DPS @ 3.5 km, 711 DPS @ 2.5 km

@ 5.2 km: 102 from one family; @ 3.5 km: 202 + 102 = 304; @ 2.5 km: 202 + 407 + 102 = 711. 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-blank711

202 + 407 + 102 = 711 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2.5 km).

AA threat index2255

202 × 3.5 + 407 × 2.5 + 102 × 5.2 = 2255. 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 range2.5 km

Secondary battery dispersion

Secondary dispersion @ 5 km195 m

Same per-type line evaluated at a fixed 5 km: 5 km × 33 + 30 = 195 m.

Secondary battery firepower

Max HE alpha1800

max(1800 (130 mm), 1800 (130 mm)) = 1800. Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 1800 from the 130 mm family.

Max HE fire chance9%

max(9% (130 mm), 9% (130 mm)) = 9%. 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.

Max HE pen27 mm

max(27 mm (130 mm), 27 mm (130 mm)) = 27 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: 27 mm from the 130 mm family.

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