While she has Amagi’s broadside, her accuracy is worse.
Unfortunately, when compared to her tech tree cousin, Kii gives up a lot for access to torpedoes and an AA suite similar to American battleships. The firing arcs of each launcher are generous and reminiscent of Admiral Graf Spee, enabling torpedo salvos from 40 degrees off the bow all the way back to nearly the stern of the ship. Kii’s fish are similar to those found on Tirpitz, with 14,400 alpha damage but a 10 km range. All of this combines to give Kii an anti-aircraft suite nearly equivalent to American Tier VIII battleship North Carolina, much to the dismay of enemy carrier captains looking for an easy target.įurther differentiating Kii from Amagi are her two triple-tube torpedo launchers, one each mounted port and starboard near her stern. Her inner AA ring is flooded with copious quantities of standard Japanese triple-mount 25mm guns. Kii features a significantly improved AA suite, comprised of 100mm dual-purpose mounts for her long-range bubble - instead of the slower-firing 127mm batteries generally found on Japanese capital ships of the era - and large numbers of the Japanese variant of the 40mm Bofors that make US and Royal Navy mid-range AA so punishing. She's far less vulnerable than Amagi to aerial torpedoes, however. She is more vulnerable when broadside thanks to her thinner turtleback armor section and worse torpedo protection system (TPS), which provides roughly half the protection of Amagi’s TPS subsequently, Kii is significantly more vulnerable to ship-launched torpedoes. Kii has some fairly noteworthy differences from Amagi, though. She sports the same turning circle and detection statistics as Amagi and sports a thicker main belt and torpedoes over Amagi's TDS and turtleback armor. She mounts the same main battery armament as her tech tree cousin - though they are a touch less accurate and have shorter range - in the same turret layout. Historically, Tier VIII premium Japanese battleship Kii was designed as a follow-on to the Amagi-class battlecruisers with thicker belt armor with slightly lower speed. The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's "Actual AA DPS".
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