Otherwise you want to be within 10 km to get the shells travelling almost flat, also aim along the water line, or you'll over penetrate with hits to the super structure, you're aiming at the hull, that's where the citadel is, not the superstructure on top.

For the Atago's 15.8km range you'd have to be firing shots over 12.5 km away ie: 2/3 of the maximum distance, that makes the shell arc downwards, the AP shells will arc and penetrate the deck of the CA. Those would be the hits which do over 590 but less than about 2000.īasically if you can't fire on a flat trajectory and hit a broadside the shell will bounce, the only other way is to use plunging fire. If the enemy ship is angled by about 30 degrees then your AP is going to bounce off and cause minimal damage, you might get some partial penetrations where the metal shavings from the armour ricochet inside the compartments causing damage, but the actual shell doesn't penetrate and detonate, or over penetrations. Keep practising, you have to get used to the shell trajectory. My nünberg 76k damage AP,königsberg 67k AP,aoba 56k AP only the RNG joke you. Just RNG hate you i see many time this in my cruiser but dont be HE spammer for this thing some battle AP work good some battle not work too well but never be star HE spammer too troll style and not be fair to others who not use HE againts you. seriously?! Again, I'm willing to accept this is somehow my fault for being a noob, as long as someone explains it well because to me it seems like either the shells are made of wet paper or the RNG seriously hates me. I hit him square in the middle of the ship, 6 hits one salvo. Then another game, I was fighting a Cleveland, 10km range, he was perfectly broadside on, no effort to dodge. This against other Tier 7 and 8 cruisers. That means I was doing less than 500 damage per shell on average. I had a game where I had about 40 shell hits, where I did 20k damage. I haven't played my Atago a lot and I admit I am slightly out of my depth since I bought it to skip the grind, but I still feel this can't just be me.

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