![]() ![]() ![]() enough to get your money's worth out of the IFHE) will not end in your favor, if the cruiser captain remotely knows how to aim. Pot-shots are fine, but a prolonged DPM trade (i.e. It will yield more damage against high-tier cruisers, but good luck picking an 11-12km fight with a Moskva or Hindenburg or whatever. IFHE on 127/130mm guns is only worthwhile at low/mid tiers where you will have lots of tier VII and below BBs to shoot at. Two AP salvos without many overpens can do up to 5-7k damage.IFHE on Khabarovsk only crosses the 25mm threshold, which isn't worth 4 commander points at tier X where all BBs you'll face are slathered with 32mm+ plating that you still won't pen, IFHE or not. By the time they started turning you would have the time for about two AP salvos on the broadside until they completed the turn and made their angling unfavorable for AP. Most people when they see these gunboats turn tail, they can't keep up in a slugfest. In general, the way this works, or at least worked with Akizuki and now with Kitazake, was that since you would spot most of the time each other at the same time, you would fire the first salvo with HE. However, IJN DDs in general get the most overpenetrations even from DD calibers. I can't say I know how these shells behave. The Udaloi was within 7km, giving broadside and almost not moving.Īs for the Kagero, its in a Daring battle. If he turned broadside at 5-6km would be a different case. The Chung Mu angled well most of the time, not giving the opportunity to use AP. HE was the safer option to damage modules, get maybe another fire that would increase the Shimas detection range. ![]() The Shimakaze was a bit too far to have consistent volleys with AP. ![]()
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