Another exception is the Atlanta, which in general should only shoot HE because it has destroyer guns) Louis I would probably stick with HE, as it is hard to citadel.

Light cruiser at light cruisers: AP (Against the St. General guide for cruisers and ammo selection. CVs, well usually HE is the better ammo cause if you set them on fire, they can't launch or recover planes. Against cruisers they DO have citadels and your guns are good enough to slam right through the armor.Īgainst BBs, unless your literally up close and personal, generally your AP shells are not going to do jack. With DDs they have no citadel and have zero armor so a good hit will hit with crushing force using HE.

In a cruiser it usually follows like this. He had damage already but I shot a broadside of AP into him just above the waterline and he was dead fast. I did load AP last night when I got in close to an enemy.

I have mostly fired HE in games thus far. In the reading I have done it suggests HE for low tier cruisers. They have a really hard citadel to penetrate up close due to super belt armor but easy to penetrate from far away with plunging fire due to a cheap armored deck, but they are the exceptions. Note 2: Some ships need to be taken off in a specific way to penetrate their citadels (Tirpitz for instance). Note: Some ships have weird citadels where they are a little bit off centered, you will learn them as you play and do some research. When shooting AP, aim for the citadel (water line center ship with low arc shot) (deck center ship with plunging fire) When shooting HE, aim for the superstructure(low arc shot) and deck(high arc shot). If you find a carrier with guns let me know HE against higher tier cruisers (some exceptions applies since some have paper citadel armor whiel some cruisers have big guns for their tier) HE against destroyers and battleships and carriers

World of warships when to use he vs ap