I use HE to burn superstructures (And some ships have semi penetrate on HE as captian skill) then switch to AP when it's time to critical hit the crap out of the enemy. Some ships just have basically unarmored citadels. Posted by 5 days ago. Lowmein, Thursday at 01:26 AM in General Game Discussion. It’s more likely in mid and low tiers, since a lot of the exposed citadel ships have thin armor there that your SAP can easily go through - ships like Mikoyan, and Ranger come to mind right away, ships that can already be citadeled with HE (and especially Ranger, which can be citadeled by destroyer HE). At tier VIII. World of Warships - téléchargez et jouez au jeu en ligne multijoueur figurant des bateaux, faites partie de la communauté WoWS EU World of Warships - free-to-play naval warfare-themed massively multiplayer game from Wargaming. This is because the server knows where everything is, but doesn't relay that to your computer unless detectibility requirements are met (anti cheat). Note that it's possible to get citadel hits at very long range due to plunging fire. It's possible, but very unlikely that you can manage to citadel a cruiser in a destroyer - it typically happens when you're firing at a very close range. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Allergy Warning: May Contain Traces of Kanmusu. I didnt realize it was so low O_O It makes sense now! Emerald also infamously can be HE-citadeled by everything in its MM spread since there's part of the citadel roof that has only a 16mm deck over it. Damage is "dealt" to a compartment by subtracting a certain amount of hitpoints. Ah the old "oh oh a broadside cruiser, time to get deleted...ok which fucker loaded HE" moments. Both Emerald & Omaha have 76mm armor belts. Below is Tier V Genova, 203mm SAP has 54mm Penetration. 13: For maximum effect, hit the enemy citadel! The main belt, which is the citadel is only 220 mm thick. SAP shells are a hybrid of sorts between AP & HE shell characteristics. View Entire Discussion (12 Comments) More posts from the WorldOfWarships community. Aoba's citadel is smaller but still big but made out of cheese and can be penetrated by DD's relatively reliably and Myoko's is about the same without being penetrable by DD's reliably. Gunboats. Don't forget to pray to RNGesus. In order to citadel with SAP, the ship you are shooting at has to have A: the citadel all the way up to the outer hull, and B: not have more citadel armor than the SAP has penetration. Just curious as to the mechanics behind it. Curious what the responses are going to be! With guns. The only difference is - HE is very simple and only cares for the first piece of armour it hits. On that part, the citadel side armor is 60 mm thick. What have we done to deserve this, Wargaming?. What's your ship's SAP Penetration value? However, Genova's SAP shells cannot Citadel Tier V Cruisers Omaha and Emerald because their armor belts are too thick. Gunboats. SAP can citadel, but it's limited to ships that can be citadeled with HE. Share this post. All Discussions ... WoWS is server side.. meaning if you fire into what you see as empty space, you can hit the ship that is there even if you can't technically see it. 1 EasternDragon_2014 14,321 views (649 votes, average: 4.92 out of 5) Loading... How to video to show one way of getting citadels on German battleships. Pretty much all T10 cruisers can hit pretty hard with their AP. Im curious, has anyone ever hit a citadel with a sap shell? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the WorldOfWarships community. You can probably SAP cit an Omaha, everything else can. So provided you hit an armour zone that directly connects to the citadel, you will score a citadel hit - provided you have enough HE pen to get through the armour. Thanks for all the input everyone! For me the hardest ship to citadel is the St. Louis for some reason. When shells are … The ships would follow the philosophy of “Outgun what you can’t outrun and outrun what you can’t outgun” with an armament easily able to deal with enemy cruisers and a speed that would allow them to flee from battleships in general. I have all I need to be a far more effective gunner. I got quite a few shooting Carriers with USNDD HE and I remember at least one from a Cleveland on an Emerald. It's the exact same as with AP; you penetrated the citadel armour with your shell. The compartments are as follows: bow end, aft end, citadel, casemate (center part minus the citadel), and the superstructure. Bogue for example eats HE citadels all day because it has no armor at all, just 13-16mm hull plating. 1.7k. I have been playing for a wile and just did not figure out there was a science to the critical hit. Yes battleships do have citadel plating under their turrets. Boot Camp Rule No. With an exposed citadel. You need to play a total of 10 battles to post in this section. Which means anything with a caliber higher than 96mm can HE-citadel a Bogue. Venezia SAP has 55mm of Pen if I remember correctly, pretty sure Mino has more citadel armor. Even Smolensk in Tier X who has paper thin armor has a 100mm armor belt. By Sign in to follow this . World of Warships - free-to-play naval warfare-themed massively multiplayer game from Wargaming. If there's multiple layers of armor protecting the citadel, even if they're all thin armor, an HE citadel will never happen because the HE shell will pen, detonate and do damage on the outer layer. I'm curious, has anyone ever hit a citadel with a sap shell? Humor. Battleships can citadel (almost) everything if the angle is right, the Myogi can quite happily citadel a Tier10 Des Moines. It's here somewhere on the reddit. Beta Tester. 746 [LYNMF] LawrenceXVIII. No consideration for angle, velocity, drag, fuse timings or anything that AP has to deal with. World of Warships. By Err0r404DignityNotFound, September 27, 2016 in General Discussions. It will not work. World of Warships - Asia Language Based Communities ; English Speaking Community ; General Discussions ; Is it possible to overpen a citadel? With guns. Either way, it's kinda nifty knowing you can HE citadel certain targets if you aim right. The citadel is the area of the ship where vital compartments like the ammunition rack and engine rooms are. A game about huge boats. However, note that when your torpedoes breach the citadel zones, it might be possible to deal extremely massive damage to your target and kill them in 1-2 torpedo hits. The farther you are from the target, the harder you need to pray. 5 years ago. Accidentally citadeled a Chapayev twice in my first salvo of my first ever GK game after forgetting to switch to AP. should have seen the IFHE DEV STRIKE with fuso against emerald. March 6, 2018 WoWs Videos 04:11. IJN CAs usually has most of the torp bulge protecting the citadel, so you actually missed the bulge and hit the small exposed parts lol. SAP shells like HE have a fixed Penetration value, typically better than HE shells of the same size. Is it possible to overpen a citadel? 1,901 posts. World of Warships - stáhněte a hrajte bezplatnou online hru pro více hráčů o válečných lodích, staňte se součástí komunity WoWS EU Members. I guess I just never looked to see that pen values. Just thought it was a luck thing, and I was on the short end. - Japanese cruisers from the Furutaka, pack a mean punh with their high velocity AP. SAP has a fixed pen value, just like HE so angling (except autobounce) does not matter. Generally, only in mid-lower tiers is there a real chance for Cruiser SAP to Citadel another Cruiser using those shells because as you climb the tiers, Cruiser armor belts get thicker. They have 35mm and 50mm armor belts respectively. What are the game mechanics behind HE resulting in a Citadel hit? Destroyers do not have citadels anymore. A game about huge boats. But a few ships have areas where the citadel is "protected" by nothing but hull plating, or by a single layer of armor so flimsy it might as well be hull plating. The pen on Italian SAP is not enough to citadel a Minotaur. Get the latest news and developments here and play for free! Cruisers at their maximum range can penetrate with ''falling fire'' but any turret or piece of the superstructure will block a citadel penetration. Depends on what you're shooting at but for maximum chance to hit the citadel you tend to want to aim for the waterline yes, some cruisers like mogami and atago have massive citadels that are easy to hit as long as they present it. So provided you hit an armour zone that directly connects to the citadel, you will score a citadel hit - provided you have enough HE pen to get through the armour. You can see that in port if you hover your cursor over Main Battery. I show what you’re trying to hit in port and then demonstrate it. It is important to remember that Destroyers do not have Citadels.. A ship's Citadel will always be well-armoured, so make sure you're not at too steep of an angle (60-68 degrees, depending on your nation), or … Get the latest news and developments here and play for free! I've tried many times in the Italian cruisers all they way up to T10 and never been able to even on a broadside minotaur. On the other hand if the enemy ship is angled, you will only able to do penetrating shots. Never submarines, they said. This. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I’ve gotten SAP citadels on ships with exposed citadels that are thin enough for SAP to pen. A 220 mm main belt. Almost nothing at the higher tiers has the citadel right up against the hull like that. Those aren't the only cases where HE citadels happen but they're the most common. Share this post. I dont have much experience with the Italian BB line yet, but is there anyone that has with an Italian bb? Link to post Share on other sites . That is why, unlike the vehicles of World of Tanks, ships in World of Warships are divided into multiple compartments, each with a different value of hit points (HP). SAP is basically just HE with more damage and penetration at the cost of bounce angles, so that makes sense. AHA!!! And Yamato's citadel is not low enough to begin with. Thought this was funny as hell when I forgot to switch the first loaded shells on a following game. Yes. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Followers 1. Wait until she is showing broadside. 6,538 battles [KIA-T] RadDisconnect 74 Master Chief Petty Officer; Members; 74 320 posts; 6,538 battles; Report post #9; Posted September 10, 2018. - General rule is to aim at the water line below the gun turrets (front or back doesnt matter), most of the ships have a quite large citadel area there. You have gotten me really excited to go back and play again. I don't have much experience with the Italian BB line yet, but is there anyone that has with an Italian bb? You can't with Cruiser SAP. protip, the rangers hanger counts as 6 mm of armored citadel, shoot into it with anything and you will citadel it. For a Cruiser sized SAP shell to Citadel another Cruiser, the target Cruiser's Citadel protection has to be very bad. For ships this means each of the magazines, and the boiler room. Finally a chance to answer a question about my favorite game! It seemed for you, this time it worked out. At close ranges maybe 10km or less if you catch a broadside cruiser and hit the citadel but get just 1480 overpen it is because sometimes the citadel armor belt of that cruiser is either too thin to arm the 460mm shell or the fuze time of said shell is so long that at close range velocities it exits through the ship before it has time to arm. Venezia in Tier X shares the same value. The Republique turtleback and space armor means you got to be less than 6 km to hit citadel, I tested it a lot in training room with my Yamato. In that same tier, you can SAP Citadel Mikoyan & Kirov. 203mm SAP has 54mm Penetration, Omaha & Emerald have 76mm armor belts. Link to post Share on other sites. Lower-tier carriers are notorious for having weak exposed citadel armour, and the Emerald you listed as an example has an exposed citadel roof towards the rear of only 25mm, meaning anything 155mm and higher (or 120mm if using IFHE) will citadel it with HE. Those two conditions mean it's mostly low to mid tier cruisers that can be citadeled with SAP. You need to play a total of 20 battles to post in this section. Offical in game modelling+offical wiki says that magazine IS NOT considered as citadel for cruisers. Tier V Genova can SAP Citadel Tier V Russian Cruisers Mikoyan & Kirov because their armor belts are 35mm and 50mm respectively. No problem, yes while technically the citadel would be the command deck in most terms, in the case of WoWs they are using citadel to mean fortified spot. - Germans line does great damage, but they need to be close to be consistent, they are brawlers. So no, Venezia can't SAP citadel that ship. Started looking and this is only the second video i have watched about this game, seeking the citadel answer. World of Warships. Press J to jump to the feed. Ive tried many times in the Italian cruisers all they way up to T10 and never been able to even on a broadside minotaur. 19 comments in this topic. You can just jump on your ship go park next to a cruiser parallel and try to citadel that cruiser from front turrets. They don't its all razzle dazzle to those unaware of them and what they cost. … 320 posts. World of Warships: How To Citadel German BBs. The shells didn't hit the conning tower? Most ships either have enough Belt armour to withstand HE, or they have spaced armour (Tier 4 and 5 Frenchies showcase this perfectly). 74 [KIA-T] RadDisconnect. Never submarines, they said. The citadel does have the T shape of Soviet battleship so starting from the waterline, it goes inside the ship with a spaced armor configuration. 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