Phra Ruang
Also called: 帕禳 Beta- Play the cap edge where both weapons reach: close enough to trade gunfire with the enemy destroyer
- Avoid: Playing her as only one kind of destroyer
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Phra Ruang Community Stats
Across 580+ Standard battles from 180+ players, Phra Ruang averages a 58% win rate, 19,200 damage and 1.0 kills per battle, and survives 40% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
Phra Ruang is a Tier II Pan-Asian gun-and-torpedo destroyer (5.5 km surface detection and 7.3 km torpedoes): her guns and torpedoes rank close together against her tier's destroyers, so neither carries her alone. Fight the enemy destroyers with the guns and save the deep-water torpedoes for the cruisers and battleships that come to support them; they pass under destroyers. Standout traits: best top speed in T2 DDs (36 kt, 2nd of 23) and best smoke duration in T2 DDs (30 s, 1st of 19). The trade is HE shell velocity in T2 DDs (664, 23rd of 23).
Positioning
Play the cap edge where both weapons reach: close enough to trade gunfire with the enemy destroyer, while the deep-water torpedoes cover the cruisers and battleships behind it (they pass under destroyers). Go dark between trades so the next salvo or wave is on your terms, and leave before the radar or spot timer matters. 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. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 2 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 5.6 km, so you see it coming with roughly 3.6 km to spare. Vision is mutual: past the 2 km guaranteed ring you cannot see out either, and nothing in her kit sees through it, so pop the smoke where someone is already lighting the enemy or you will sit in it with nothing to shoot. Once the rudder is over she turns tightly for her cohort (450 m), so a committed turn costs less water than most of what she is fighting.
Potato Avoidance
Playing her as only one kind of destroyer
These torpedoes ignore the Destroyer class
Holding the torpedoes to keep a gun duel going, or skipping gun trades while you wait for a perfect torpedo window, leaves half the kit idle; she wins fights by using both. Aim torpedo drops ONLY at battleships, carriers, and most cruisers; every torp fired at a DD is wasted output.
Signature Traits
Torps IGNORE the Destroyer class (deep-water mechanic); they pass under DDs and cannot hit them. Aim ONLY at battleships, carriers, and most cruisers; every torp fired at a DD is wasted, shared by 2/23 T2 DDs.
+8% speed (about +2.9 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable gives a small speed nudge - useful for closing a gap or steadying a torpedo run, not for running anything down.
36 kt, best of T2 DDs. Lets you rotate flanks or escape disengagements.
30 s smoke deployment window, best of T2 DDs. Lays a longer rolling smoke trail while moving.
- Top-tier AA · 56 AA
- AA specialist
- Slow HE shells · 664 m/s
- Slow AP shells · 664 m/s
How to get Phra Ruang
Phra Ruang is available in the Capital Ship Destroyers branch of the Pan-Asia Tech Tree for 13,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 2,600 credits.
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Phra Ruang sits in the Capital Ship Destroyers branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full Pan-Asia tree.
Builds
Pair with a commander whose unique skill complements her main armament; check the build tool for current recommendations.
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Cohort position
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Where Phra Ruang sits among Tier II DDs (22 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.
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Not standouts for Phra Ruang -- 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.
Peers in this cohort
Compare Tier II DestroyersStats & specs
Customize in the Build Tool →ƒ
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.ƒ
180° − 151° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 29° off bow; 180° − 150° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 30° 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.ƒ
In practice: the baseline curve for a standard destroyer -- at max range (8.6 km) shells land in an ellipse about 79 m wide and 48 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.ƒ
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the dispersion model:ƒ
Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:ƒ
50%-hit horizontal radius:ƒ
50%-hit vertical radius:ƒ
180 degrees / 8 deg/s traverse speed = 22.5 s.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 3 broadside guns x 60 / 5.571 s (5.5 s = 39 ticks) base reload = 32.3. All upgrades (top gun): 3 broadside guns x 60 / 4.714 s (4.7 s = 33 ticks) all-upgrades reload = 38.2.HE shells
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17 mm ≈ 102 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).ƒ
1,500 HE damage x 3 broadside guns = 4,500.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 4,500 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.571 s (5.5 s = 39 ticks) base reload = 48,462. All upgrades (top gun): 4,500 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4.714 s (4.7 s = 33 ticks) all-upgrades reload = 57,273.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 32.3 shells/min × 0.06 (6% fire chance) = 1.94. All upgrades (top gun): 38.2 shells/min × 0.06 (6% fire chance) = 2.29.AP shells
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floor(102 mm caliber / 14.3) = 7 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).ƒ
AP formula evaluated at muzzle velocity: .ƒ
Same formula at the ship's max firing range (8.6 km), where the shell has slowed to 254.2 m/s: .ƒ
1,500 AP damage x 3 broadside guns = 4,500.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 4,500 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.571 s (5.5 s = 39 ticks) base reload = 48,462. All upgrades (top gun): 4,500 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 4.714 s (4.7 s = 33 ticks) all-upgrades reload = 57,273.ƒ
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.ƒ
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: . 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.ƒ
27,300 warhead alpha / 3 + 900 blast = 10,000. 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.ƒ
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.ƒ
How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning): . 2.6855 converts knots to m/s on the game clock. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further.ƒ
This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 1.9 per hit, shown as . 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.ƒ
Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg: .ƒ
One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 4 x 9,100 = 36,400. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.ƒ
Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 2.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Initial: 3 × 3.5 × 1 = 10 → 16 × 3.5 × 1 = 56. Raw aura damage × 3.5 × hit probability, the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 36 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.9 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.ƒ
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.ƒ
Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse.ƒ
Time to reach 90% of top speed (32.4 kt of 36.0 kt).ƒ
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.ƒ
With the rudder hard over the hull turns 10.3°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 8 − 10.3 = -2.3°/s, so the guns fall behind and catch up once the turn eases. Main Battery Mod. 2 (+20% traverse) and Mod. 3 (−15%) move this line.ƒ
Base value, no camouflage. With a Grade IV permanent camo (or any disposable camo): 5.5 km x 0.955 = 5.25 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 5.5 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 5.25 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 5.5 km) = 8.58 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.ƒ
Air detectability 2.76 km + gun-firing bloom 2.04 km = 4.8 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 102 mm × 0.020 = 2.04 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 5.5 km + 2.0 km while burning = 7.5 km.ƒ
Air detectability 2.76 km + 3.0 km while burning = 5.76 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Smoke Generator4 charges · 120 s reload · 30 s emit / 70 s cloud active · 450 m radius
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonus
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
The standard destroyer dispersion curve.(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.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 , where 363.6 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 664 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.3 mounts × 1 barrels = 3; all 3 bear on the broadside.Model inputs
Armor-penetration constant of the AP shell; penetration scales straight with it, so a 10% higher Krupp is 10% more penetration at every range.Enters penetration as mass^0.69 and slows the shell's drag deceleration, so a heavier shell keeps more velocity at range.Air drag on the AP shell in flight; lower keeps velocity, and with it penetration, at long range.Starting speed of the AP shell; penetration scales with velocity^1.38.Starting speed of the HE shell; sets its flight time and lead.Horizontal dispersion growth per idealDistance of range, in 30 m units; the slope of the scatter-width line.Horizontal dispersion at zero range, in 30 m units; the intercept of the scatter-width line.Range step over which horizontal dispersion grows by idealRadius.Inside this range the scatter width tapers toward minRadius instead of following the line.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at zero range.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at the delim point.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at maximum range.Where the vertical-scatter curve bends, as a share of maximum range.Torpedoes
1100 m / (50.0 kt × 2.6855) = 8.2 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).7320 m / (50.0 kt × 2.6855) = 54.5 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).2 launchers × 2 tubes.2 launchers × 2 tubes = 4, all to either side (centreline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 4 x 9,100 = 36,400. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 2.5 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 2pdr QF MKII PomPom 3x1 -> 56 DPS @ 2.5 km.@ 2.5 km: 56 from one family. 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.56 = 56 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2.5 km).56 × 2.5 = 140. 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.Ship Charts
Background
British destroyer of the R class, transferred to the Thai Navy in 1920. She could travel at a very high speed and carried very good armament. For most of her service life, she was the most powerful torpedo ship in the Thai Navy.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 7,900 → 8,700 with hull upgrade, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds.
Overmatched by 105+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 3%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 6 mm | 1,300 (15% of HP) | Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut, Shenyang)6 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 | 6 mm | 1,100 (13% of HP) | Overmatched by 127mm+ AP (Farragut, Shenyang)6 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 6 mm | ≈ 165,500 (effectively 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 | 6 mm | 200 (2% 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 | 4,400 magazine HP | Turret knocked out | Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool that does not drain ship HP. As it is worn down the turret is likelier to be knocked out, and a smaller pool gets there 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 | 2,600 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.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior Phra Ruang can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
Primary official WG sources
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