Armor thresholds
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| Tier 4 - 5 battleship bow/stern<br/>Tier 6 - 7 light cruiser side plating<br/>Tier 8 - 10 battleship superstructure<br/>Tier 8 - 10 destroyer plating | | Tier 4 - 5 battleship bow/stern<br/>Tier 6 - 7 light cruiser side plating<br/>Tier 8 - 10 battleship superstructure<br/>Tier 8 - 10 destroyer plating | |||
? | | Will bounce up to 254 mm AP if sufficiently angled.<br/>Notable: Can bounce ''Henri IV'' (240 mm), but not ''Graf Spee'', ''Scharnhorst'' (283 mm) and battlecruiser AP shells (305 - | + | | Will bounce up to 254 mm AP if sufficiently angled.<br/>Notable: Can bounce ''Henri IV'' (240 mm), but not ''Graf Spee'', ''Scharnhorst'' (283 mm) and battlecruiser AP shells (305 - 310 mm). | |
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| 25 mm || 358 mm | | 25 mm || 358 mm |
Revision as of 21:55, 22 September 2020
Contents
HE penetration
Here are some common armor thicknesses and the minimum HE shell diameters needed to penetrate them (since Update 0.9.2), according to the HE penetration formula.
Changes to the Inertia Fuse for HE Shells Skill (Update 0.9.2).
Note that as per update 0.9.2 IFHE now halves the BASE fire chance of shells. For ships which rely on fire damage IFHE thus can be a poor choice even if significant armor thresholds are passed. The formula for fire chance can be found in Fires.
IFHE All Night Long by LittleWhiteMouse.
1/6, 1/5 and 1/4 are the HE shells' penetration coefficients.
Armor thickness (mm) | HE shell diameter needed to penetrate (mm) | |||||
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1/6 | 1/6 with IFHE | 1/5 | 1/5 with IFHE | 1/4 | 1/4 with IFHE | |
13 | 75 | 63 | 62.5 | 52.5 | 50 | 42 |
16 | 93 | 75 | 77.5 | 62.5 | 62 | 50 |
19 | 111 | 93 | 92.5 | 77.5 | 74 | 62 |
20 | 117 | 93 | 97.5 | 77.5 | 78 | 62 |
25 | 147 | 117 | 122.5 | 97.5 | 98 | 78 |
26 | 153 | 123 | 127.5 | 102.5 | 102 | 82 |
27 | 159 | 129 | 132.5 | 107.5 | 106 | 86 |
30 | 177 | 141 | 147.5 | 117.5 | 118 | 94 |
32 | 189 | 153 | 157.5 | 127.5 | 126 | 102 |
38 | 225 | 183 | 187.5 | 152.5 | 150 | 122 |
40 | 237 | 189 | 197.5 | 157.5 | 158 | 126 |
50 | 297 | 237 | 247.5 | 197.5 | 198 | 158 |
51 | 303 | 243 | 252.5 | 202.5 | 202 | 162 |
60 | 357 | 285 | 297.5 | 237.5 | 238 | 190 |
HE penetration (before Update 0.9.2)
OLD INFORMATION AS PER UPDATE 0.9.2. NEW INFORMATION IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE UPDATE IS QUITE COMPLEX, SOME TIME IS NEEDED TO PROCESS ALL CHANGES.
Here are some common armor thicknesses and the minimum HE shell diameters needed to penetrate them, according to the HE penetration formula. "Super" refers to the 1/4 HE penetration coefficient.
By armor thickness
Armor thickness | Occurrences (non-exhaustive) |
Beneficiaries (without IFHE) (non-exhaustive) |
Beneficiaries (with IFHE) (non-exhaustive) |
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16 mm | Tier 3 battleship bow/stern Tier 6 - 7 battleship superstructure Most tier 6 - 7 cruiser bow/stern The entirety of British light cruiser and Smolensk hull plating Tier 6 - 7 destroyer plating |
All guns of 114 mm or more calibre | |
19 mm | Tier 4 - 5 battleship bow/stern Tier 6 - 7 light cruiser side plating Tier 8 - 10 battleship superstructure Tier 8 - 10 destroyer plating |
All guns of 114 mm or more calibre | |
25 mm | Tier 6 and 7 cruisers' decks, most tier 8 - 10 cruisers' bow/stern, tier 8 - 10 light cruisers' side plating | Heavy cruisers (203mm) Light cruisers (155mm) Japanese 100 mm guns German 105 mm secondary guns |
Most destroyers (120 mm - 150 mm) |
26 mm | Tier 6 and 7 battleship bow/stern and some of their casemate plating | Heavy cruisers (203 mm) Light cruisers (180 mm, T8+ 152/155 mm) Japanese 100 mm guns German 105 - 150 mm guns |
Light cruisers (152mm) up to and including tier 7 Most destroyers (127 mm - 139 mm) |
27 mm | Tier 8 and 9 cruiser decks, some tier 8 - 10 cruiser bow/stern (USN and German heavy cruisers) | Heavy cruisers (203 mm) Light cruisers (tier 8 - 10 152 - 155 mm, 180 mm) Japanese 100 mm guns German 128 - 150 mm guns |
Light cruisers (152mm) up to and including tier 7 Some destroyers (130 mm - 139 mm, 100 mm super) |
30 mm | Most tier 10 cruiser deck plating, most tier 10 heavy cruiser side plating, Ägir, Siegfried, Albemarle and Drake deck plating | Heavy cruisers (203 mm), tier 8 - 10 light cruisers (152, 155, 180 mm) Japanese 100 mm guns German 128 - 150 mm guns |
Tier 7 and lower light cruisers (152 mm, 155 mm, 180 mm) Donskoi and Molotov (180mm) |
32 mm | Tier 8 - 10 battleship bow/stern, tier 8 - 10 British and French battleships' casemate plating, Slava deck plating | Heavy cruisers (203 mm) German 128 - 150 mm guns (both main and secondary) |
Most light cruisers (152 mm, 155 mm, 180 mm) Japanese 100 mm guns |
38 mm | Tier 8 - 10 USN battleship decks | Henri IV (240 mm) Goliath (234 mm) Superheavy cruisers (305 - 310 mm) All german cruisers German 150 mm guns |
All non-German 203 mm ships, and Mogami. Not worth it on 203mm guns, since you lose a lot fire chance just to penetrate this category of armor. |
50 mm | Khabarovsk belt Moskva, Stalingrad and Petropavlovsk casemate plating Tier 7 - 10 German battleships' decks |
German 203 mm (Hindenburg, Roon, Hipper, Yorck) Superheavy cruisers (305 - 310 mm) |
Henri IV (240 mm) (not worth it, considering how much fire chance you lose) |
60 mm | Sovetsky Soyuz, AL Sov. Rossiya and Kremlin deck | Only battleship calibre HE can penetrate their deck armor | German 203 mm (Hindenburg, Roon, Hipper, Yorck) Superheavy cruisers (305 - 310 mm), but it's not worth speccing into IFHE considering how much fire chance you lose |
By HE diameter
HE shell | Occurrences (non-exhaustive) |
Maximum armor thickness penetrated | IFHE beneficial against (non-exhaustive) | |
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Without IFHE | With IFHE | |||
Tier 8 - 10 152 mm 180 mm Japanese 100 mm |
Most light cruisers Some Japanese destroyers/secondaries |
30 mm | 32 mm | Tier 8 - 10 battleship bow/stern, tier 8 - 10 British and French battleships' casemate plating, Slava deck plating |
419-420 mm with improved HE penetration | Conqueror, Friedrich der Große, Großer Kurfürst, Lion | 104 mm | 136 mm | Citadels: Cleveland, Edinburgh, Fiji, Helena, New Orleans, Worcester |
Notes
- As per the tables above, 152 mm and 155 mm HE, primarily found on light cruisers; and 100 mm HE, found on Japanese gunboat destroyers and some secondary batteries, are by far the biggest beneficiaries.
- 180 mm HE benefits less from IFHE because of a more drastic relative reduction in fire chance for not much gain in both absolute and impactful damage output
- The only secondary weaponst that may benefit from IFHE are German 105 mm secondaries with 26 mm base penetration, however, they give up a lot of fire chance for the ability to penetrate up to and including 32 mm plating, which is most of the time not worth it
- Some other ships gain some benefit, but this is not generally considered worth the cost in skill points and the tradeoff in fire starting capabilities.
AP overmatch
An AP shell whose diameter is greater than 14.3 times the thickness of an armor plate will overmatch and pass through it regardless of angle. Here are some thresholds where this occurs, which determines whether it is feasible to "bow-tank" a particular AP shell.
Armor thickness | AP shell diameter needed to overmatch |
Occurrences (non-exhaustive) |
Notes |
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10 mm | 144 mm | Tier 4-5 cruiser superstructure Tier 4-5 destroyer plating |
Will bounce most destroyer shells if sufficiently angled, but not most light cruiser shells. |
13 mm | 186 mm | Tier 4 - 5 battleship superstructure Tier 4 and 5 cruiser bow/stern Most tier 6 - 7 cruiser superstructure |
Will bounce light cruiser shells if sufficiently angled but not heavy cruiser shells (203 mm). |
16 mm | 229 mm | Tier 3 battleship bow/stern Tier 6 - 7 battleship superstructure Most tier 6 - 7 cruiser bow/stern The entirety of British light cruiser and Smolensk hull plating Tier 6 - 7 destroyer plating |
Will bounce almost all cruiser shells if sufficiently angled. Notable: Can bounce Moskva (220 mm) but not Henri IV (240 mm), Graf Spee or Scharnhorst (283 mm). |
19 mm | 272 mm | Tier 4 - 5 battleship bow/stern Tier 6 - 7 light cruiser side plating Tier 8 - 10 battleship superstructure Tier 8 - 10 destroyer plating |
Will bounce up to 254 mm AP if sufficiently angled. Notable: Can bounce Henri IV (240 mm), but not Graf Spee, Scharnhorst (283 mm) and battlecruiser AP shells (305 - 310 mm). |
25 mm | 358 mm | Tier 6 and 7 cruisers' decks, most tier 8 - 10 cruisers' bow/stern, tier 8 - 10 light cruisers' side plating | Will bounce up to 14-inch shells (356 mm) if sufficiently angled. |
26 mm | 371 mm | Tier 6 and 7 battleship bow/stern and some of their casemate plating | Will bounce up to 15-inch shells (381 mm) if sufficiently angled. |
27 mm | 387 mm | Tier 8 and 9 cruiser decks, some tier 8 - 10 cruiser bow/stern (USN and German heavy cruisers) | Will bounce up to 15-inch shells (381 mm) if sufficiently angled. |
30 mm | 430 mm | Most tier 10 cruiser deck plating, most tier 10 heavy cruiser side plating, Ägir, Siegfried, Albemarle and Drake deck plating | At current only Thunderer (457 mm), Georgia (457 mm), Ohio (457 mm), Kremlin (457 mm), Musashi (460 mm), République (431 mm), Yamato (460 mm), and Shikishima (510 mm) can overmatch. |
32 mm | 458 mm | Tier 8-10 battleship bow/stern, tier 8 - 10 British and French battleships' casemate plating, Slava deck plating | At current only Musashi, Yamato (both 460 mm), and Shikishima (510 mm) can overmatch. |