In addition, she is very prone to taking engine and steering gear critical damage from large caliber HE shells that are so often thrown about in low tier matches by battleships. Her powder magazines lie outside of her citadel (though thankfully they are fully submerged). In practice, tier II through IV matches usually devolve into slug fests of trading HE fire and Varyag will take damage from almost everything thrown at her.ĭo pay special attention to module damage, however. Between being fully enclosed and mostly submerged and some weird geometry to help foil incoming shells, she's completely immune to HE citadel hits and it's rare for AP to score the same. Incoming shells need only contend with between 6mm and 16mm worth of steel to land penetration damage. Varyag's thickest armour is a 152mm conning tower as a part of her superstructure. Protected cruisers aren't very complicated as far as their armour protection goes. What it would have needed to be : A (much) faster rate of fire, for starters. Its a mistake to underestimate her firepower - she can still stack damage and it's not impossible to have good games with her, but you're really playing a tier III ship with tier II guns.
Summary: She should have been tier II based on her guns alone. She has a lot of secondaries, but their small caliber, low penetration and pathetic range of 2.5km keeps them from being useful. You can't silence your guns and hide in this boat. While stock, Varyag's surface detection range is the exact same range as her guns. Unfortunately with only a six gun broadside, Varyag is going to be the worst of the Russian bunch at her tier. Her HE shells are reasonably good fire starters which about their only redeemable quality of her rifles. They have horrible muzzle velocity and very long shell flight times.
The AP performance of these low-tier, Russo-Soviet 152mm guns is a bad joke with the worst penetration over range at their tier.
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