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Sims — American special premium Tier VII destroyer.

The new destroyer design was similar to the Mahan class, but she was larger than her predecessor, and her main guns were mounted on a ring-shaped base instead of the central pin. When construction was complete, overloading was detected, which led to removing one torpedo launcher and transferring the second one to the center. With the entry of the United States into World War II, USS Sims joined the same strike group as aircraft carrier Yorktown. On May 7, 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the destroyer sank as a result of an attack by Japanese dive bombers.

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 ()
127 mm/38 Mk.12 on a Mk.30 mod.0/mod.1 mount	18	5.3	111	1,800	5	2,100		0	0

	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 ()
Sims	13,800	10	20	4		4/4	2			0	0

	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 ()
Bliss Leavitt Mk7 mod. 2B	0.8	76	7.2	9,666	49	10.5		0	0
Mk15 mod. 0	0.7	87	7.2	11,600	65	7		0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Mk6 mod. 1		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 50,000 hp	38.5		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

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Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4

Player Opinion

Performance

This ship plays mostly like any other American destroyer. Its fast; very manuvrable; the guns spit those shells out at a amazing 18 rpm, and they turn fast, very fast. The suface Detectability is rather big, but smaller than that of the Mahan, 7.3 km. with captainskills, you can get it down at a range of 6.8km. The turning time is a glorious 500 meter. The best tactic you can use is to fit the 5.5km torpedoes and fight in close quarters, and around islands. But you can also fit the 9.2km range torpedoes and fire them from stealth. A lot of the time, at extreme range your targets can easely avoid most of them, because its a rather wide spread. And even if they do hit, they only do about 8000 damage. Or you can hunt down battleships. Because it is a small ship, those battleships will have a hard time hitting you. While your guns have a small chance setting ships on fire, and the arc is so bad, battleships dont go fast and if you put in a lot of shots, they will set on fire. A reasonable marksman can hit a big battleship over 100 times in mid-long range. you can also fight other destroyers really well in ranges less than 7km. Because then, you dont have to worry about the bad arc. Watch out for cruisers, and dont engage them alone,

only if they are on low health or you have allies with you.

Pros:

Guns turn very fast, they are always on target
Very reactive armament
Can choose 2 sets of torpedoes, rather than 1, so you can fit this ship depending on YOUR playstyle
Fast firing guns
Good acceleration and agility
Great rudder shift time of only 2.1 seconds
Fast top speed of 38.5 knots
Is a Premium
can fire from stealth in her stock configuration
Can mount the AA cooldown consumable, wich is normaly only fit on cruisers
If the comander is fully trained, the ship can fire up to a range of 15.5(!), wich is Phenomenal for a destroyer at her tier
An awsome 500 meter tight turning circle, the best in-game

Cons:

Fragile rudder
Fragile engine
Fragile armament
Paper offers better protection than hull
9 km torpedoes are slow, and don't do a lot of damage
The other set of torpedoes only go up to 5.5km but only do 11.000 damage, but travel at a fast speed of 65 knots
The notoriuos 'Rainbow' shell arc, so its hard to hit ships at long range.
Is not a very good moneymaker, despite beeing a premium
AA suit is underpreforming
Rather large detectabilaty for a destroyer
guns have a low fire chance

Gallery

Ships of U.S.A.

Destroyers	II Sampson • II Smith • III Wickes • IV Clemson • V Nicholas • V Hill • VI Farragut • VI Monaghan • VII Mahan • VII Sims • VII Sims B • VIII Benson • VIII Kidd • IX Fletcher • IX Benham • IX Halford • IX Black B • IX Black • X Gearing • X Somers • X Forrest Sherman • ★ Joshua Humphreys
Cruisers	I Erie • II Chester • II Albany • III St. Louis • III Charleston • IV Phoenix • V Omaha • V Marblehead • V Marblehead Lima • V Rattlehead • VI Pensacola • VI Dallas • VII Atlanta • VII New Orleans • VII Helena • VII Indianapolis • VII Atlanta B • VII Boise • VII Flint • VIII Baltimore • VIII Cleveland • VIII Wichita • VIII Anchorage • VIII Congress • VIII Rochester • VIII San Diego • VIII AL Montpelier • IX Buffalo • IX Seattle • IX Vallejo • IX Alaska • IX Tulsa • IX Alaska B • X Des Moines • X Worcester • X Puerto Rico • X Salem • X Austin • ★ Annapolis
Battleships	III South Carolina • IV Wyoming • IV Arkansas Beta • V New York • V Oklahoma • V Texas • VI New Mexico • VI Arizona • VI W. Virginia '41 • VII Colorado • VII Florida • VII West Virginia '44 • VII California • VIII North Carolina • VIII Kansas • VIII Nebraska • VIII Alabama • VIII Massachusetts • VIII Alabama VL • VIII Constellation • VIII Massachusetts B • VIII Alabama ST • VIII North Carolina CLR • IX Iowa • IX Minnesota • IX Delaware • IX Missouri • IX Kearsarge • IX Illinois • IX Kearsarge B • IX Georgia • X Montana • X Vermont • X Louisiana • X Ohio • X Rhode Island • X Wisconsin • ★ Maine
Aircraft Carriers	IV Langley • VI Independence • VI Ranger • VIII Yorktown • VIII Lexington • VIII Enterprise • VIII Saipan • VIII Hornet • VIII Saipan B • X Essex • X Midway • X Franklin D. Roosevelt • ★ United States

Destroyers

Japan	II Tachibana • II Umikaze • II Tachibana Lima • III Wakatake • IV Isokaze • V Minekaze • V Fūjin • V Kamikaze • V Kamikaze R • V Mutsuki • VI Fubuki • VI Hatsuharu • VI Shinonome B • VI Shinonome • VII Akatsuki • VII Shiratsuyu • VII Yūdachi • VIII Akizuki • VIII Kagerō • VIII Asashio • VIII HSF Harekaze II • VIII Asashio B • VIII HSF Harekaze • VIII AL Yukikaze • IX Yūgumo • IX Kitakaze • IX Minegumo • IX STAR Kitakaze • X Shimakaze • X Harugumo • X Hayate • ★ Yamagiri
U.K.	II Medea • III Valkyrie • III Campbeltown • IV Wakeful • V Acasta • VI Icarus • VI Gallant • VII Jervis • VII Jupiter '42 • VIII Lightning • VIII Cossack • VIII Cossack B • IX Jutland • IX Somme • X Daring • X Druid
France	II Enseigne Gabolde • III Fusilier • IV Bourrasque • V Jaguar • V Siroco • VI Guépard • VI Aigle • VII Vauquelin • VIII Le Fantasque • VIII Le Terrible • IX Mogador • X Kléber • X Marceau • X Kléber CLR
U.S.S.R.	II Storozhevoi • III Derzki • IV Izyaslav • V Gremyashchy • V Podvoisky • V Okhotnik • VI Gnevny • VII Minsk • VII Leningrad • VII Tashkent '39 • VIII Ognevoi • VIII Kiev • IX Udaloi • IX Tashkent • IX Neustrashimy • X Khabarovsk • X Grozovoi • X Delny • ★ Zorkiy
U.S.A.	II Sampson • II Smith • III Wickes • IV Clemson • V Nicholas • V Hill • VI Farragut • VI Monaghan • VII Mahan • VII Sims • VII Sims B • VIII Benson • VIII Kidd • IX Fletcher • IX Benham • IX Halford • IX Black B • IX Black • X Gearing • X Somers • X Forrest Sherman • ★ Joshua Humphreys
Germany	II V-25 • III G-101 • IV V-170 • V T-22 • VI Ernst Gaede • VI T-61 • VI Karl von Schönberg • VII Leberecht Maass • VII Z-31 • VII Z-39 • VIII Z-23 • VIII Gustav-Julius Maerker • VIII Z-35 • IX Z-46 • IX Felix Schultz • IX Z-44 • IX ZF-6 • X Z-52 • X Elbing • X Z-42
Pan-Asia	II Longjiang • III Phra Ruang • IV Shenyang • V Jianwei • VI Fushun • VI Anshan • VII Gadjah Mada • VIII Hsienyang • VIII Siliwangi • VIII Loyang • VIII Fenyang • VIII Loyang B • VIII Ship Smasha • IX Chung Mu • X Yueyang • X Lüshun • ★ Kunming
Spain	X Álvaro de Bazán
Europe	II Tátra • III Romulus • IV Klas Horn • V Visby • V Muavenet • VI Västerås • VI Stord • VII Skåne • VII Grom • VII Błyskawica • VII Stord '43 • VIII Öland • VIII Split • VIII Orkan • IX Östergötland • IX Lambros Katsonis • IX Velos • IX Friesland • IX Jäger • X Halland • X Gdańsk • X Småland • X Ragnar • ★ Dalarna
Netherlands	IX Groningen • X Tromp
Italy	II Curtatone • III Nazario Sauro • IV Turbine • V Maestrale • VI Aviere • VI Leone • VII Luca Tarigo • VII FR25 • VIII Vittorio Cuniberti • IX Adriatico • IX Paolo Emilio • X Attilio Regolo
Commonwealth	III Vampire • VII Haida • VII Huron • X Vampire II
Pan-America	VI Juruá

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 |Performance=<!-- write text about performance in battles below -->
+This ship plays mostly like any other American destroyer.
+Its fast; very manuvrable; the guns spit those shells out at a amazing 18 rpm, and they turn fast, very fast.
+The suface Detectability is rather big, but smaller than that of the Mahan, 7.3 km. with captainskills,
+you can get it down at a range of 6.8km. The turning time is a glorious 500 meter. The best tactic you can use is to fit the 5.5km torpedoes and fight in close quarters, and around islands.
+But you can also fit the 9.2km range torpedoes and fire them from stealth.
+A lot of the time, at extreme range your targets can easely avoid most of them, because its a rather wide spread.
+And even if they do hit, they only do about 8000 damage. Or you can hunt down battleships. Because it is a small ship,
+those battleships will have a hard time hitting you. While your guns have a small chance setting ships on fire,
+and the arc is so bad, battleships dont go fast and if you put in a lot of shots, they will set on fire.
+A reasonable marksman can hit a big battleship over 100 times in mid-long range.
+you can also fight other destroyers really well in ranges less than 7km. Because then,
+you dont have to worry about the bad arc. Watch out for cruisers, and dont engage them alone,
+only if they are on low health or you have allies with you.
 |Research=<!-- write text about priority sequence of research below -->
 |Pros=<!-- write list of positive points below. use * as in ordinary wiki-list. -->
+* Guns turn very fast, they are always on target
+* Very reactive armament
+* Can choose 2 sets of torpedoes, rather than 1, so you can fit this ship depending on YOUR playstyle
+* Fast firing guns
+* Good acceleration and agility
+* Great rudder shift time of only 2.1 seconds
+* Fast top speed of 38.5 knots
+* Is a Premium
+* can fire from stealth in her stock configuration
+* Can mount the AA cooldown consumable, wich is normaly only fit on cruisers
+* If the comander is fully trained, the ship can fire up to a range of 15.5(!), wich is Phenomenal for a destroyer at her tier
+* An awsome 500 meter tight turning circle, the best in-game
 |Cons=<!-- write list of negative points below. use * as in ordinary wiki-list. -->
+* Fragile rudder
+* Fragile engine
+* Fragile armament
+* Paper offers better protection than hull
+* 9 km torpedoes are slow, and don't do a lot of damage
+* The other set of torpedoes only go up to 5.5km but only do 11.000 damage, but travel at a fast speed of 65 knots
+* The notoriuos 'Rainbow' shell arc, so its hard to hit ships at long range.
+* Is not a very good moneymaker, despite beeing a premium
+* AA suit is underpreforming
+* Rather large detectabilaty for a destroyer
+* guns have a low fire chance
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+The Sims class of 12 destroyers was built for the United States Navy, and commissioned in 1939 and 1940. They were the last United States destroyer class completed prior to the American entry into World War II. All Sims-class ships saw action in World War II, and seven survived the war. No ship of this class saw service after 1946. They were built under the Second London Naval Treaty, in which the tonnage limit on destroyer standard displacement was lifted, but an overall tonnage limit remained. Thus, to maximize the number of destroyers and avoid developing an all-new design, the Sims class were only 70 tons larger as designed than previous destroyers. They are usually grouped with the 1500-ton classes and were the sixth destroyer class since production resumed with the Farragut class in 1932.
+The class served extensively in World War II, and five of the class were lost in the war. Of the five ships lost, four were at the hands of the Japanese and one at the hands of the Germans. The class served on Neutrality Patrols in the Atlantic in 1940-41. Except for Roe, Wainwright, and Buck, the class was transferred to the Pacific shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. All of the ships saw extensive combat service. At the war's end in August 1945, three of the seven survivors were undergoing overhauls that were left unfinished, and were ultimately scrapped. The remaining four seaworthy ships were used as targets during the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. One was sunk by the first blast, while the other three were sunk as targets two years later after serving as experimental platforms.
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+File:Uss sims.jpeg|USS Sims (DD-409), lead ship of the class, on trials in 1939. The Mk 37 director has not yet been installed.
+File:USS Russell (DD-414) line drawing 1943.jpg|USS Russell (DD-414), possibly as in 1941 with Mount 53 still equipped and K-guns added.
+File:Mk37 Director circa1944.jpeg|Mk 37 Director ca. 1944 with Mk 12 (rectangular antenna) and Mk 22 "orange peel" radar antennas
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