Tiger '59
Also called: 虎59 · Tiger ’59 Beta- Hold a flank that gives you firing arcs into rotated cruisers and exposed BB broadsides
- Avoid: Passing up destroyer shots because the AP over-pens
Variant of Tiger
This ship shares its hull with Tiger. Specific stat and loadout differences are shown on the Specs tab.
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Tiger '59 Community Stats
Across 3,900+ Standard battles from 210+ players, Tiger '59 averages a 68% win rate, 61,200 damage and 1.3 kills per battle, and survives 51% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
Tiger '59 is a Tier VI British AP-only cruiser with strong AP DPM (233,739): she carries no HE shells at all, so every salvo is AP into broadsides or wasted. The hull is fragile, so the kit is fragile-spammer chasing soft targets and dodging in open water rather than trading punches. She also packs the super-heal, but the kit is offense first, sustain second. Surveillance Radar (8.5 km, 25 s active, every 180 s) is the cap-control consumable on top, so she sets fights as well as winning them. Standout traits: end-plate armor in T6 CAs (25 mm, 5th of 44) and best fast heal cycle in T6 CAs (15,888 HP, 1st of 14). The trade is top speed in T6 CAs (30.2 kt, 41st of 44).
Positioning
Hold a flank that gives you firing arcs into rotated cruisers and exposed BB broadsides. The hull is fragile; ration trades to ones that pay AP citadels back, and lean on speed and consumables to dodge focus when it comes. Open water is fine when the closest threat is far enough that the salvo timing favors you. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 5.4 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 6.9 km, so you see it coming with roughly 1.5 km to spare. Vision is mutual: past the 2 km guaranteed ring you cannot see out either, but your own Radar reads through it, so you can find targets instead of borrowing them. Enemy sonar (about 4.2 km) and radar (about 9 km) read straight in regardless. At 600 m the screen is wider than standard, so it can cover a teammate holding the same line as well as your own hull. Once the rudder is over she turns tightly for her cohort (590 m), so a committed turn costs less water than most of what she is fighting.
Potato Avoidance
Passing up destroyer shots because the AP over-pens
Even an over-pen is guaranteed chip damage that wears a DD down and denies its caps and torpedo runs, so keep guns on any destroyer you can see. Save the citadel salvos for broadside cruisers and BB sides, but never hold fire on a spotted DD. A skipped salvo is 3.2 s of nothing, and over-pens you did take would have been damage the destroyer cannot heal back.
Signature Traits
8.49 km range, 25 s duration. Detects all enemy ships within a fixed radius regardless of line-of-sight. Breaks smoke camps and wins the opening of a cap fight.
25 mm bow and stern plating, both in the top bracket of T6 CAs. Standard HE under 152 mm shatters on 25 mm; only 380 mm AP and up overmatches it.
- Fast heal cycle · 15888 HP
- Repairs citadel hits · 50%
- Super-heal
6 km AA reach, best of T6 CAs.
30.2 kt, bottom decile of T6 CAs. Hard to rotate flanks or disengage; commit positioning early.
83 mm max plate, bottom decile of T6 CAs. Citadel windows open against peer-tier guns.
How to get Tiger '59
Tiger '59 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.
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Best listed chance for this ship
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Super VI crate
4%
One of the Tier VI Premium ships
Event · Super VI crate · 1 of 25 ships
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Santa Level 5
0.5%
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Archived · Santa Level 5 · 1 of 35 ships
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Spectral Vault 5.0
0.448718%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Spectral Vault 5.0 · 1 of 39 ships
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Spectral Vault 4.0
0.195513%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Spectral Vault 4.0 · 2 paths combined · 1 of 39 ships
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- Spectral Vault 4.00.128205%
- Spectral Vault 4.0 → Spectral Vault 5.00.067308%
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Santa Level 4
0.192857%
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Santa Level 3
0.139643%
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- Santa Level 30.085714%
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Winter Big Crate '23
0.133333%
Tier VI Premium ship
Common · Winter Big Crate '23 · 1 of 3 ships
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Mega Santa '23
0.125%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Mega Santa '23 · 1 of 32 ships
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Spectral Vault 3.0
0.111891%
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Super Santa '23
0.109375%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Super Santa '23 · 1 of 32 ships
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Mystic Lantern
0.104651%
Tier VI Premium ship
Event · Mystic Lantern · 1 of 43 ships
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Santa Level 2
0.059161%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Santa Level 2 · 7 paths combined · 1 of 35 ships
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- Santa Level 20.028571%
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Spectral Vault 2.0
0.04074%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Spectral Vault 2.0 · 7 paths combined · 1 of 39 ships
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Champion's Box
0.027929%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Champion's Box · 4 paths combined · 1 of 35 ships
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- Champion's Box → Santa Level 30.017143%
- Champion's Box → Santa Level 3 → Santa Level 50.005%
- Champion's Box → Santa Level 3 → Santa Level 40.004286%
- Champion's Box → Santa Level 3 → Santa Level 4 → Santa Level 50.0015%
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Ultimate Crate
0.010938%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Ultimate Crate → Super Santa '23 · 1 of 32 ships
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Santa Level 1
0.010181%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Santa Level 1 · 9 paths combined · 1 of 35 ships
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- Santa Level 1 → Santa Level 20.004286%
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- Santa Level 10.000057%
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Spectral Vault 1.0
0.004837%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Spectral Vault 1.0 · 12 paths combined · 1 of 39 ships
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- Spectral Vault 1.0 → Spectral Vault 2.00.002308%
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- Spectral Vault 1.0 → Spectral Vault 3.0 → Spectral Vault 4.0 → Spectral Vault 5.00.000074%
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- Spectral Vault 1.00.000051%
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Mystic Box
0.002326%
Tier VI Premium ship
Event · Mystic Box · 1 of 43 ships
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Secret Santa '23
0.000063%
Tier VI Premium ship
Archived · Secret Santa '23 · 1 of 32 ships
Official WG availability sources
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December Update: The Most Wonderful Tide of the Year
Crates
Start: 2022-12-08
- Big season—big crates! A revamped version of our seasonal crate, called Winter Big Crate '23, has chances of dropping a wider selection of ships than any of the big crates before!
- you can get one of the following Premium ships (ships you own are excluded from possible drops):
- British Tier VI cruiser Tiger '59
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Honoring the Battle of Jutland
Store / event post
Start: 2025-05-19
- Echoes of Jutland chained bundles, with the final bundle featuring the British Tier VI Premium cruiser Tiger '59 in a new Jutland-themed permanent camouflage.
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- Mega Santa '23 0.125% · Tier VI Premium ship
- Mystic Box 0.002326% · Tier VI Premium ship
- Mystic Lantern 0.104651% · Tier VI Premium ship
- Santa Level 1 0.000057% · Tier VI Premium ship
- Santa Level 2 0.028571% · Tier VI Premium ship
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Builds
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Cohort position
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Where Tiger '59 sits among Tier VI CAs (43 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 Tiger '59 -- 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
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Stats & specs
Customize in the Build Tool →ƒ
180° − 155° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 25° off bow; 180° − 145° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 35° 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: 51% tighter (better) horizontal dispersion and 51% less vertical spread at max range (14.7 km) than a standard cruiser: about 66 m wide × 40 m tall, against 134 m × 81 m. Also on this curve (5): Elbing, Felix Schultz, Gustav Julius Maerker, Sovremenny, Z-31.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 / 38 deg/s traverse speed = 4.7 s.ƒ
4 broadside guns x 60 / 3.286 s (3.2 s = 23 ticks) base reload = 73.AP shells
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floor(152 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 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 (14.7 km), where the shell has slowed to 331.3 m/s: .ƒ
3,200 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 12,800.ƒ
12,800 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 3.286 s (3.2 s = 23 ticks) base reload = 233,739.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
Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
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 54 from dual-purpose main battery firing as AA in this range band.ƒ
Effective DPS: 60 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.9 hit probability = 189 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Far 54 + Medium 189 = 243ƒ
Each ~2 s salvo fires 2 AA explosions in quick succession, each leaving 2 clouds ahead of the attacking squadron - up to 4 clouds per salvo × 250 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.ƒ
Damage a plane takes for flying into one flak cloud, before any reductions.ƒ
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.ƒ
A new flak salvo (the AA explosions above) fires roughly every 2 s.ƒ
Flak keeps firing while at least one main battery mount is operational - even losing every dedicated AA mount does not stop it.ƒ
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 6 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.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 30.2 / 4 + 4.9 = 12.5 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 (27.2 kt of 30.25 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (29.9 kt of 30.25 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 6.2°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 38 − 6.2 = +31.8°/s, so the guns hold the target through the turn. 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): 11.53 km x 0.955 = 11.01 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 11.53 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 11.01 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 11.53 km) = 14.68 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 6.92 km + gun-firing bloom 3.04 km = 9.96 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 152 mm × 0.020 = 3.04 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 11.53 km + 2.0 km while burning = 13.53 km.ƒ
Air detectability 6.92 km + 3.0 km while burning = 9.92 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active
Repair Party2 charges · 60 s reload · 20 s active · 13,240 HP (40% of max HP) total heal (per charge) ƒ
0.02 of max HP per second (2%) × 20 s effective active time = 0.4 of max HP × 33,100 HP = 13,240 HP: up to 40% of max HP restored per charge.ƒ
0.4 of max HP per charge × 2 charges = 0.8 × 33,100 HP = 26,480 HP: up to 80% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.ƒ
0.02 (2% of max HP) × 33,100 HP = 662 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 15 s emit / 103 s cloud active · 600 m radius
Surveillance Radar2 charges · 180 s reload · 25 s active · 8.49 km radar range ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):
Defensive AA Fire3 charges · 140 s reload · 25 s active · ×2 flak burst boost ƒ
Repeats the flak burst pattern ×2 within each salvo - more clouds in the air over the salvo, at the same spots.
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
H = horizontal, V = vertical spread. This ship's curve against the standard cruiser curve, both evaluated at this ship's max range (14.7 km) with the same model as Max Horiz/Vert Disp: horizontal 66 / 134 m − 1 = -51%, vertical 40 / 81 m − 1 = -51%. Shell grouping (σ) is separate: it sets how shells bunch toward the centre of this ellipse.(166.7 × (4 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 32.5 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.(333.3 × (4 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 50 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.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: at 0 m, at m, and at 14678 m. Below the kink: , so .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: at 0 m, at m, and at 14678 m. Above the kink: , so .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 554 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 768 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.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 , where 409.1 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 768 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.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, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 768 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.2 mounts × 2 barrels = 4; all 4 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.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.AA defense
Only families that reach 6 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 3in70 Mk6 3x2 -> 189 DPS @ 5 km; Far AA (?) -> 54 DPS @ 6 km.@ 6 km: 54 from one family; @ 5 km: 189 + 54 = 243. 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.189 + 54 = 243 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (5 km).189 × 5 + 54 × 6 = 1269. 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
One of the ultimate all-gun cruisers of the Royal Navy, armed with the most advanced and powerful guns Great Britain had at its disposal in the 1950s.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 33,100, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds.
Overmatched by 81+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Thin belt: battleship AP citadels straight through it broadside. Rely on angle, speed and concealment, never sit flat.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 30%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 25 mm primary (range 25–40 mm) | 1,000 (3% of HP) | Overmatched by 380mm+ AP (Bayern, Richelieu)Angle bounces 356mm25 mm: HE pens from 150mm+ | Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP. |
| Hull (midship) | 25 mm | 24,800 (75% of HP) | Overmatched by 380mm+ AP (Bayern, Richelieu)Angle bounces 356mm25 mm: HE pens from 150mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 25 mm primary (range 25–40 mm) | 1,200 (4% of HP) | Overmatched by 380mm+ AP (Bayern, Richelieu)Angle bounces 356mm25 mm: HE pens from 150mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 83 mm primary (range 13–83 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 | 16 mm primary (range 16–83 mm) | 3,300 (10% of HP) | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damageDamage multiplier ×0.6 | 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 | 16,600 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 (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 | 9,900 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.
Balance History
Balance updates affecting Tiger '59. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
Ministry of Balance: New Horizons, Greater Heights
- Tiger has a great ability to control Key Areas, but she can barely resist any ship that pushes her. We're giving her better chances by improving the accuracy of her main guns to match that of German alternative destroyers like Z-31 and Elbing.
- Main battery dispersion improved by 49.5%.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior Tiger '59 can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
St. Patrick's Ensemble (Tiger '59)Decorative
Predator's StripesPermanent Camo
Primary official WG sources
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