Elbing

12.10

Elbing

Destroyer | Germany | Tier X

Tech Tree Position

General

Research price240000 exp

Purchase price20,000,000

Hit Points30,900

Main Battery

150 mm/60 SK C/25 on a Tbts KC 42T mount3 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire8.45 shots/min.

Reload Time7.1 sec.

Rotation Speed10 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time18 sec.

Firing Range13.34 km.

Maximum Dispersion61 m.

HE Shell150 mm Spr.Gr. L/4.4 Kz. Ausf. B

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,800

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell12 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity960 m./s.

HE Shell Weight51 kg.

AP Shell150 mm P.Spr.Gr. L/3.7 Ausf. C

Maximum AP Shell Damage4,100

Initial AP Shell Velocity960 m./s.

AP Shell Weight51 kg.

Torpedo Tubes

533 mm Fünfling2 х 5 pcs.

Rate of Fire0.67 shots/min.

Reload Time90 sec.

Rotation Speed25 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time7.2 sec.

TorpedoG7 T1 Ausf.C

Maximum Damage16,533

Torpedo Speed50 knot

Torpedo Range13.5 km.

AA Defense

150 mm/60 SK C/25 on a Tbts KC 42T mount3 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second35.1

. . . Firing Range6 km.

30 mm/45 Flak 103/38 on a quadruple mount10 х 4 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second143

. . . Firing Range3 km.

55 mm/77 Gerät 58 on a twin mount2 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second48.8

. . . Firing Range3.99 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed36.2 knot

Turning Circle Radius890 m.

Rudder Shift Time6.3 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range8.01 km.

Air Detectability Range5.01 km.

Battle Levels

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12.10

Elbing

Destroyer | Germany | Tier X

Tech Tree Position

General

Research price240000 exp

Purchase price20,000,000

Hit Points30,900

Main Battery

150 mm/60 SK C/25 on a Tbts KC 42T mount3 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire8.45 shots/min.

Reload Time7.1 sec.

Rotation Speed10 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time18 sec.

Firing Range13.34 km.

Maximum Dispersion61 m.

HE Shell150 mm Spr.Gr. L/4.4 Kz. Ausf. B

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,800

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell12 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity960 m./s.

HE Shell Weight51 kg.

AP Shell150 mm P.Spr.Gr. L/3.7 Ausf. C

Maximum AP Shell Damage4,100

Initial AP Shell Velocity960 m./s.

AP Shell Weight51 kg.

Torpedo Tubes

533 mm Fünfling2 х 5 pcs.

Rate of Fire0.67 shots/min.

Reload Time90 sec.

Rotation Speed25 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time7.2 sec.

TorpedoG7 T1 Ausf.C

Maximum Damage16,533

Torpedo Speed50 knot

Torpedo Range13.5 km.

AA Defense

150 mm/60 SK C/25 on a Tbts KC 42T mount3 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second35.1

. . . Firing Range6 km.

30 mm/45 Flak 103/38 on a quadruple mount10 х 4 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second143

. . . Firing Range3 km.

55 mm/77 Gerät 58 on a twin mount2 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second48.8

. . . Firing Range3.99 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed36.2 knot

Turning Circle Radius890 m.

Rudder Shift Time6.3 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range8.01 km.

Air Detectability Range5.01 km.

Battle Levels

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X

20,000,000

Elbing — German Tier X destroyer.

A project for a so-called "reconnaissance cruiser", and the culmination of efforts to create a destroyer that would be capable of operating on the high seas. She was a large destroyer with 150 mm main guns placed in twin turrets, and carried powerful torpedo armament.

Elbing was first available during Update 0.10.5 on 17th Jun 2021.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
150 mm/60 SK C/25 on a Tbts KC 42T mount	8.5	18	61	1,800	12	4,100		0	2,000,000

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Elbing	30,900	13	100	3		10/2/3	2			0	3,000,000

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	Torpedo Tubes Reload Time (sec)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Damage (HP)	Torpedo Speed (knot)	Torpedo Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
G7 T1 Ausf. C	0.7	90	7.2	16,533	50	13.5		0	2,000,000

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
FKS Typ 10 Mod. 1		0		0	2,000,000

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 110,000 hp	36.2		0	2,000,000

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5
Slot 6

Player Opinion

Performance

Warning. The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.
For a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's "Actual AA DPS".

Elbing is a Tier X German destroyer that tends to share more in common with cruisers than other destroyers at her tier. Her 150 mm armor-piercing (AP) shells pack a punch, capable of penetrating to the citadel of many cruisers who show their broadside. She is also armed with torpedoes and has access to the Defensive AA Fire  consumable to repel enemy aircraft.

Beginning with her strong traits, Elbing has good guns sporting decent ballistic properties. For a destroyer, her main battery has an exceptional firing range with a very good accuracy, meaning that players can choose to engage at longer ranges to harass enemy capital ships. Combine that with her improved pen angles and excellent pen (Comparable to the AP pen of Hindenburg), she is a serious threat to cruisers. Her torpedoes hit hard and reload quickly, despite their slow speed in the water. Her two rear-facing gun mounts enable Elbing to defend herself well when retreating. Despite these traits, players may find that Elbing poses some difficulties while serving in a traditional destroyer role. With a modest detectability range, she will likely be spotted first in an engagement. Once detected, Elbing is a large target due to her size and height out of the water. Players will quickly discover that Elbing has a very poor turning radius and a sluggish rudder that makes conducting emergency maneuvers to dodge incoming ordinance difficult. Unlike Z-52, Elbing does not have access to the Hydroacoustic Search  consumable, making it difficult to engage in a playstyle where countering enemy destroyers is a priority. For these reasons, Elbing excels at medium to long-range harassment of enemy ships, along with scouting roles.

Elbing is best utilized as a scout ship to harass enemy ships and engage in target spotting to assist teammates. Her large pool of hit-points, access to the Defensive AA Fire  consumable, long-range guns with good ballistics, and torpedo armament make her a formidable threat to any ship she faces. She is relatively self-sufficient, but players should try to avoid close-quarters engagements with other destroyers to minimize the difficulties presented by her large profile and poor turning capabilities.

Pros:

• Largest gun caliber among Tier 10 destroyers
• AP shells have amazing penetration and improved penetration angles
• As with other German destroyers, Elbing's HE shells have improved penetration
• Most accurate destroyer guns in the game
• Excellent ballistics - high shell velocity and flat arcs
• Good torpedo range, damage, and reload speed
• Large 25mm midsection armor provides protection against most destroyer-caliber HE shells
• Largest hitpoint pool in the game for its class
• Surprisingly decent concealment, with a minimum surface detection of 6.5km

Cons:

• The biggest destroyer in the game, as large as a cruiser
• Abysmal HE damage output
• Poor rate of fire for a destroyer
• Huge turn radius and slow rudder shift, Elbing handles more like a light cruiser
• Extremely slow torpedoes
• AA defenses are not the best
• Unsuited for contesting capture points

Research

As a Tier X ship, Elbing has no upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

Recommended upgrades for Elbing:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Engine Room Protection
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Propulsion Modification 1
• Slot 5: Concealment System Modification 1 
• Slot 6: Main Battery Modification 3

Commander Skills

While the range of Elbing's torpedoes is long enough that they can be considered an offensive weapon, they are not the ship's primary strength. Skill points are better invested elsewhere.

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack				Defense
1	Grease the Gears +15% main battery traverse speed. ★★	Liquidator +30% chance (multiplicative) of causing flooding.	Consumables Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party .	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns. ★★★
2	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire. +15% to the damage-inflicting area of HE shells fired at submarines.	Swift Fish +5% torpedo speed.	Consumables Enhancements +10% action time of: Hydroacoustic Search , Surveillance Radar , Smoke Generator , & Engine Boost .	Extra-Heavy Ammunition +7.5% main battery AP shell damage. +10% damage from depth charges. ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies aiming at you with main battery. ★★	Last Stand The ship remains able to move and maneuver - slowly - while the engine or steering gears are incapacitated. ★★★
3	Main Battery & AA Specialist -5% main battery reload time. +10% continuous AA damage. ★★	Fill the Tubes -10% torpedo tubes reload time.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells Base fire chance reduced by half.	Superintendent +1 charge to all consumables. ★★	Survivability Expert +350 HP per ship tier. ★★★
4	Main Battery & AA Expert +20% main battery range. +15% flak damage. ★★★	Swift in Silence So long as the ship remains undetected: +8% ship speed +5% main battery reload time.	Radio Location Shows the direction to the nearest enemy ship. The enemy is alerted that a bearing has been taken..	Fearless Brawler +1 flak burst per salvo. -10% main battery reload when ship is spotted. ★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★	Dazzle For 15 seconds after you are detected: * +20% dispersion of enemy shells fired at you. * +8% ship speed.
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Elbing equips:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Smoke Generator  – 3 charges
• Slot 3: Engine Boost  - 3 charges
• Slot 4: Defensive AA Fire  – 3 charges

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Juliet Charlie -100% to the risk of magazine detonation. ★★★	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration.	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy.	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding. ★★★	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating. ★★
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time.	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used.
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator . ★★	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire . ★

Note: Use of the Juliet Charlie signal makes detonation impossible.

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Historical Info

Elbing, 1942 design

Specifications

5,037 long tons displacement, standard

5,900 long tons displacement, full

152.20m length

14.60m beam

4.60m draft

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Machinery

4 boilers, 2 turbines for the outer shafts

4 diesel motors for the inner shaft

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Performance

35.5 knots at 92,000 shaft horsepower

8,000nm at 17 knots

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Armor

15mm bulkheads and up to 12mm deck

30mm turret face plates

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Armament

Main

Six (3x2) 150mm/48 guns

Anti-Aircraft

Ten (5x2) 37mm C/30 cannons

Twelve (3x4) 20mm C/38 cannons

Torpedo

Ten (5x2) 533mm torpedo tubes

History

The lack of oceangoing destroyers forced the Kriegsmarine to design a class of ships capable of Atlantic operations with a cruising range suited for that task. Their intended field of operations would be to act as merchant raider and escorts in the Atlantic, to be suited for tropical conditions as well as counter the French destroyer leaders.

The first stage of this thinking was the 1936A type, however experience with those ships showed an insufficient cruising range, preventing any sort of Atlantic operation. Furthermore, the sea keeping of those destroyers left much to be desired and so a new set of designs was drafted, the 1937 type destroyers. These were much enlarged designs with better sea keeping, but would still not have the cruising range desired for open ocean operations. As they were almost the size of light cruisers at that point while not matching either the protection of a cruiser or the speed of a destroyer, they were discontinued. Instead the 1938 type destroyers were drafted, with 1938A being the ocean going destroyer while 1938B would be a smaller design for service in Northern and Baltic waters. What set the 1938A apart from preceding designs was the usage of a third shaft with Diesel propulsion for increased range. This design would eventually evolve into the Spähkreuzer 1938 design, on which Elbing is based.

Design

The Spähkreuzer 1938 design called for a 152.2m long and 14.6m wide hull to provide the necessary sea keeping. The empty ship alone would displace 4,589 tons, growing to 5,037 and 5,900 tons standard and fully loaded respectively. 520 enlisted men and 18 officers would crew the ship.

In terms of protection the Spähkreuzer 1938 design only accounted for splinter damage. 15mm Ww plates acting as longitudinal bulkheads would provide some protection to vital areas, with a 10mm Wh deck connecting to the upper edge of the bulkhead. The bridge area received a similarly thin protection with only 10-15mm strong Wh plates. The strongest protection would be on the turrets, with 30mm Wh faceplates. A double bottom providing some anti-mine protection covered 81% of the ship's length.

The main armament was designed with six 150mm L/48 C/36 cannons, mounted in three twin turrets on the centerline with one turret fore and a superfiring pair aft. These guns would fire a 45kg heavy projectile at ranges up to 23.5km, reloading within at best 7.5 seconds. The auxiliary armament was initially planned to consist of five 37mm L/83 C/30 twin mounts and three 20mm Flakvierling 38 mounts, arranged around the superstructure. Unlike most German destroyers the torpedo armament grew to ten tubes, mounted in two quintuple torpedo launchers.

For machinery the Spähkreuzer 1938 design carried two independent steam turbine sets and one set of four diesel motors geared down via a gearbox to drive the shaft. The turbines, manufactured by Wagner, were supplied with 450°C hot steam at 70atü pressure steam by two Wagner-boilers. The Diesel motors were to be built by MAN and provide roughly 3,650hp each, which after the gearbox would result in 14,500shp on the central shaft. Each wingshaft would be driven by 38,750shp, for a total of 92,000shp to permit the 35.5kn max speed. With a fuel capacity of 820 tons the cruising range was calculated to be 8,000nm at a speed of 17kn.

Historical Inaccuracies

• The Spähkreuzer 1938 design called for the 150mm L/48 C/36 gun to be used. In-game however she carries the 150mm L/60 C/25 gun in twin turrets that were never designed.
• The Spähkreuzer 1938 design planned to use standard 3m rangefinders for fire control. The in-game model however carried M/42 Flak directors for dual purpose armament.

Historical Gallery

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  Blueprint showing the internal layout as well as the view from the top

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  Blueprint showing the internal layout of the upper decks and the superstructure

References

Ship Change Log

See here for links to Update notes.

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.10.1.

Testing Changes

• DevBlog 112:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• DevBlog 123:
  • Removed the Hydroacoustic Search consumable.
  • Added the Smoke Generator consumable.
• DevBlog 129:
  • Torpedo tubes reload time increased from 85 to 90 s.
  • Main battery firing range increased from 12.3 to 13.3 km.
  • Smoke screen dispersion time increased from 77 to 97 s.
• DevBlog 132:
  • Torpedo parameters changed:
    • Range increased from 8 to 13.5 km.
    • Speed decreased from 65 to 50 knots.
    • Detectability range decreased from 1.3 to 1.2 km.
    • Maximum damage increased from 13,700 to 16,533.
• DevBlog 139:
  • Main battery 180 degree turn time decreased from 22.5 to 18 s.
• DevBlog 145:
  • Main battery reload time decreased from 7.5 to 7.1 s.
• DevBlog 159:
  • Detectability range by sea decreased from 8.46 to 8.26 km. Other detectability ranges decreased accordingly.

• Introduced into the game as a researchable ship in Update 0.10.5.
• Update 0.10.5:
  • Fixed geometry and textures of the ship.
• Update 0.11.8:
  • Maximum HE shell damage increased from 1,700 to 1,800.
  • HE shell fire chance increased from 8% to 12%.
• Update 12.5:
  • Engine Boost consumable added in a separate slot.

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