Atago can have significant staying power late game compared to her contemporaries if it can avoid taking big hits.Ītago, 1944 Specifications 14,616 tons displacement, standardĪrmament Main Ten (5x2) 20.3cm/50 3rd Year Type mod. Has the access to the Repair Party consumable, allowing for HP recovery.She makes a narrow target so can be difficult to hit if kiting away.

Low detection range with the Concealment Expert skill, the cruiser has an astonishing 9.3km detection range.

Very high speed, capable of a brisk 37 knots with Sierra Mike.

Position of the forward torpedo launcher allows for bold plays against other cruisers

Much wider torpedo launch arcs than regular tech tree Japanese cruisers having 2 front-mounted and 2 rear-mounted allows for more flexible torpedo usage.

With a full stealth build she is able to launch torpedoes while undetected.

10 km torpedoes with excellent damage.

Lethal HE shells with excellent fire starting capabilities and damage.

Excellent gun accuracy, equal to that of Zao.

Heavy 10-gun broadside with an equally heavy HE alpha strike.

Can lead to large caliber shells occasionally bouncing off the deck at long range, as well as shattering HE shells from some cruisers.

She does have a few drawbacks, with a very large citadel hit box - due to the large bridge/boiler area amidships - as well as a slow rate of fire and a mediocre anti-aircraft suite, but she is overall a powerful ship.

With a full concealment build she can even fire torpedoes from beyond her detection radius in certain situations. Her impressively low detection range means that she can engage the enemy on her terms, and if situations go awry she can sneak away (providing there are no aircraft patrolling the sky or a nearby destroyer to detect her). She also gains access to the Repair Party consumable, allowing her to recover HP, unlike most other cruisers (at Tier VIII). While her main battery rate of fire is slower, her torpedoes are quadruple tube mounts (for a total of 16 instead of 12) and the forward launcher on each side fires forwards instead of backwards, making it useful against enemies in front of the ship. This heavy cruiser is fairly similar to her predecessor, but improves on many traits such as turret traverse and overall handling. 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'.Ītago bears the same ABC-XY turret layout of her historical predecessor Myoko.

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