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For a very heavily armored or angled target, incapacitating modules can be important but setting fires is the main purpose of HE.

It is fun to make fires and destroy modules, but it takes far longer to sink ships. For a very lightly armored target like a destroyer, AP can simply blow right through it without fusing, doing little damage, while HE will always explode and usually penetrate. The ship, which was in a state of 70 completion, participated in the Siege of Leningrad. Unfinished heavy cruiser Lützow was purchased from Germany in 1940 and renamed Petropavlovsk. However as you get to the higher levels, HE becomes even worse, a lot don't even bother using it for the lightly armoured ships. Before the Great Patriotic War started, the Soviet Navys authorities took measures to strengthen their fleet. Thus, HE is superior against lightly armored targets that AP might overpenetrate, including destroyers and carrier decks.ĪP is superior against more well-armored targets which would resist HE shells, like cruisers, carrier hulls, and especially battleships. Thus while AP in WoT is a reliable penetrator that deals moderate damage, in Warships they either penetrate heavy armor, dealing more damage than HE, or overpenetrate light armor, dealing substantially less damage than HE.

Her 150 mm armor-piercing (AP) shells pack a punch, capable of penetrating to the citadel of many cruisers who show their broadside.

Causing Fire to enemy warships will deal the most damage over a few seconds. Elbing is a Tier X German destroyer that tends to share more in common with cruisers than other destroyers at her tier. AP, however performs slightly differently as they are not purely kinetic penetrators as in WoT, but are actually fused HE shells designed to penetrate armor before detonating. However, if the situation calls for it, Destroyers can deal the most damage over time with HE Shells. So from what I understand, the situations in which HE performs well are similar to WoT, in that if a target is poorly armored, HE will hit for high damage.