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Shi An

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Pan-Asia · Tier I · Cruiser · Tech Tree: Shi An

Utility cruiserFlexible support -- spot, screen, and farm where the team needs it.

Playstyle

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone
Avoid: Sailing in a straight line

Key characteristics

2 sigma accuracyWeak AA

Community Data

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Playstyle

Overview

Shi An is a Tier I Pan-Asian cruiser - a tutorial-tier ship. The kit is for learning basic mechanics: movement, aiming, shell travel time, gun rotation, and reading the minimap. Match impact comes from making fewer mistakes than the other Tier I players, not from gear advantages. Notable: top-decile AP overmatch threshold in T1 CAs (10.6 mm).

Positioning

Stay near your team; do not push ahead alone. At Tier I the goal is practicing the basics, so pick a teammate to follow and learn how to lead your shots while their ship is in your field of vision.

Potato Avoidance

Sailing in a straight line

Even Tier I players will lead a predictable target; learn to make small course changes between salvos to break enemy aim. This is the single highest-impact habit to build at this tier.

Signature Traits

Big-caliber overmatch

10.6 mm overmatch threshold, top decile of T1 CAs. Punishes bow-tanking ships peers can't crack.

Overmatch specialist

Caliber-driven overmatch reaches armor thicknesses most cohort peers can't crack. Punish bow-tankers.

Slow acceleration

~8.3 s to max forward speed, bottom decile of T1 CAs. Sluggish rebuild after a turn or stop. (Acceleration decode is validated in-game but not yet confirmed across every ship.)

Low HE DPM

20000 HE DPM, bottom decile of T1 CAs. Don't bank on burn pressure.

Acquisition

How to get Shi An

Shi An is available in the Shi An branch of the Pan-Asia Tech Tree as an early line ship.

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Pan-Asia Tech Tree

Shi An sits in the Shi An branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full Pan-Asia tree.

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Builds Beta

Use a Pan cruiser commander focused on reload, range, agility, and survivability. Inspirations that improve dispersion, rudder/steering, concealment, or damage consistency fit the safe mid-range cruiser plan.

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Cohort position

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Where Shi An sits among Tier I CAs (13 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.

Top 10%Main dispersion81 m (2/13) Top 25%Main battery caliber152 mm (4/13) Top 25%HE velocity853 m/s (3/12) Bottom 25%Main battery range9.68 km (12/13) Bottom 25%Acceleration8.3 s (12/13) WorstFires per minute0.67 (12/12) WorstHE DPM20,000 (12/12) WorstAA threat9 (1 of 3 tied)

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Not standouts for Shi An -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort.

Hit points12,000 HP(10/13) Max speed22 kt(8/13) Concealment8.71 km(9/13) Air detection5.23 km(9/13) Rudder shift6 s(6/13) Traverse-to-turn ratio5.68 ×(8/13) Main battery reload6.3 s(7/13) HE shell damage2,100(5/12) HE fire chance7%(7/12) Engine power16,000 hp(8/13) Turn-speed retention34.8 hp/m(6/13) Displacement4,926 t(9/13) Power-to-weight3.25 hp/t(8/13) Max armor38 mm(9/13) Citadel belt38 mm(7/13) Bow armor13 mm(9/13) Stern armor19 mm(5/13) Deck armor22 mm(5/13)

Peers in this cohort

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Stats & specs

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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.

Survivability

Hit Points12,000

Displacement4,926 t

Armor range6–38 mm

Plate armor thicknesses6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 19, 22, 38 mm

Armor material/layer entries35

Fire resistance0%

Fire duration30 s

Torp Reduction0%

Magazine HP

The magazine is the module a detonation comes from. Penetrating hits to it raise the detonation chance from 1% toward 30% as its HP is worn down, so a larger magazine pool rides out citadel hits longer before a detonation becomes likely.

6,000

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.

3,500

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 152 mm/50 Mk5

Mounts / barrels6 mounts / 6 barrels

Reload time7 s

Firing range (base)8.8 km

Firing range (top fire control)9.7 km

Turret traverse8 °/s

Shell Grouping (σ)

Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.

Max Horiz Disp

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range. (R/30·(idealRadius−minRadius)/idealDistance + minRadius)·30 = (8800/30·(8−0.5)/1000 + 0.5)·30 = 81 m

81 m

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range = max horizontal × radiusOnMax = 81 × 0.6 = 48.6 m

48.6 m

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius = max horizontal × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 81 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 25.9 m

25.9 m

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius = max vertical × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 48.6 × 0.319 (σ=2) = 15.5 m

15.5 m

Turret turn time

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

22.5 s

Base shells/min

1 broadside guns x 60 / 7 s base reload = 8.6.

8.6

HE shells

HE Damage2,100

HE Velocity853 m/s

Fire Chance7%

HE penetration

25 mm ≈ 152 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

25 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

2,100 HE damage x 1 broadside guns = 2,100.

2,100

Base HE DPM

2,100 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7 s base reload = 18,000.

18,000

Base fires/min

1 HE shells x 60 / 7 s reload x 7% fire chance = 0.6.

0.6

AP shells

Min Ricochet91 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

AP overmatch

floor(152 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

10 mm

AA Defense

AA mount points1

Close-range AA DPS

Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (1×3.5×0.9) = 3. 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.

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.

3 km

76 mm Mk101×1 76mm

DPS1

Range3 km

Maneuverability

Engine moduleEngine: 16,000 hp

Engine power16,000 hp

Maximum speed22 kt

Turning circle radius460 m

Engine power multiplier speed threshold7 kt

Traverse-to-turn ratio5.7× slow

Concealment

Detectability by sea8.71 km

Detectability by air5.23 km

Smoke firing penalty3.78 km

Detect after firing main guns8.71 km

Detect Fire Sea10.71 km

Detect Fire Air8.23 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active

Module options (2)

Stats above use the fully-upgraded modules. These are the research-tree alternatives; trade-offs are flagged.

HullUpgrade

Turret traverse8 → 5 °/s

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range8,800 → 9,680 m

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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.

Main battery formulas

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.

Max Horiz Disp81 m

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range. (R/30·(idealRadius−minRadius)/idealDistance + minRadius)·30 = (8800/30·(8−0.5)/1000 + 0.5)·30 = 81 m

Max Vert Disp48.6 m

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range = max horizontal × radiusOnMax = 81 × 0.6 = 48.6 m

Med Horiz Disp25.9 m

50%-hit horizontal radius = max horizontal × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 81 × 0.32 (σ=2) = 25.9 m

Med Vert Disp15.5 m

50%-hit vertical radius = max vertical × GetHalfHitsRatio(σ) = 48.6 × 0.319 (σ=2) = 15.5 m

Dispersion familyCruiser Disp.

Standard cruiser dispersion baseline.

HE penetration25 mm

25 mm ≈ 152 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

AP overmatch10 mm

floor(152 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

Broadside guns used for alpha1

Barrels that can bear on one beam (1 of 6); casemate/wing mounts only fire one side.

Turret turn time22.5 s

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

HE full-salvo alpha2,100

2,100 HE damage x 1 broadside guns = 2,100.

Base HE DPM18,000

2,100 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7 s base reload = 18,000.

Base shells/min8.6

1 broadside guns x 60 / 7 s base reload = 8.6.

Base fires/min0.6

1 HE shells x 60 / 7 s reload x 7% fire chance = 0.6.

AA defense

Close-range AA DPS3

Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (1×3.5×0.9) = 3. 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.

Maximum AA range3 km

Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.

AA threat index9

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.

Armor

Hull HP 12,000, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are the exact in-game values, not estimated.

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	13 mm primary (range 6–13 mm)	1,300 (11% of HP)	Overmatched by 203mm+ (Furutaka)Angle bounces 152mm13 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)	19 mm primary (range 10–19 mm)	9,000 (75% of HP)	Overmatch not possible at T IIAngle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest.
Stern	19 mm primary (range 6–19 mm)	700 (6% of HP)	Overmatch not possible at T IIAngle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	38 mm primary (range 9–38 mm)	≈ 165,500 (effectively no cap)	Citadel pen ×0.10 damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage	Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. Damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead (×0.10 direct pen, ×0.10 over-pen).
Superstructure	6 mm primary (range 6–22 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	6,000 magazine HP	Magazine detonation1–30% chance · below ~75% HP	Per-turret powder-magazine HP. Detonation chance scales from 1% (no mag damage) to 30% (full mag damage); this range is the in-game value. Detonation can't roll while the ship is above ~75% HP (the standard detonation-protection threshold, not a per-ship stat). Smaller magazines saturate to the 30% ceiling faster.
AA mount (76 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	3,500 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.

Shell ballistics chart

AP penetration, impact velocity, flight time and impact angle vs range. Click to load the interactive chart.

Exteriors

Skins & permanent camouflages

Every custom exterior Shi An can equip, from in-game data.

DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior

Primary official WG sources

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2021-11-25 · Patch notes December Update: Dragon's Breath Patch notes