Supertest: Commonwealth Tier X Freemium Destroyer Vampire II

HMAS Vampire was the third Daring-class destroyer serving in the Royal Australian Navy. She was built in Australia, laid down in July 1953, launched in October 1956 and commissioned in June 1959.

The ship had a fairly active career, being regularly deployed to South East Asia.

She was attached to the Far East Strategic Reserve on five occasions, including during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and escorted the troop transport HMAS Sydney on six of the latter’s twenty-five transport voyages to Vietnam. In 1977, the destroyer was assigned to escort the Royal Yacht Britannia during Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s visit to Australia. In 1980, Vampire was reclassified as a training ship.

She remained in service until she was decommissioned in 1986 and presented to the Australian National Maritime Museum for preservation as a museum ship; the largest museum-owned object on display in Australia. You can still visit the Vampire today, in Sydney.

In World of Warships, we are getting Vampire as she was initially built. As such, she still carries her quintuple torpedo launcher and also has a Limbo anti-submarine mortar, the successor to the Squid that was initially visible in-game on Daring and Kléber (don’t ask me why they removed them).

For the classic reminder, this is a ship in testing, anything can change so don’t look at her like she would already be released.

Modules

Hull	Engine	Gun Fire Control System	Main battery	Torpedoes
Vampire II	Propulsion: 54 000 hp	Mk X mod. 1	113 mm/45 RP 41 Mk VI	533 mm Mk IXM

Characteristics

GeneralMain BatteryTorpedo TubesAir DefenseConsumables

Tier	X
Health	19 800 HP
Displacement	3 560 tons
Main Armament
Maximum Firing Range	13.780 km
113 mm/45 RP 41 Mk VI	3 x 2 113 mm
Torpedo Armament
Maximum Firing Range	10.000 km
533 mm PR Mk II	1 x 5 533 mm
Maximum speed	35 knots
Turning Circle Radius	630 m
Rudder Shift Time	4.4 s
Surface Detectability	7.6 km
Air Detectability	3.46 km
Detectability After Firing Main Guns in Smoke	2.61 km

3 x 2 113 mm/45 RP 41 Mk VI All Turrets can turn at 360°
Maximum Firing Range	12.460 km
Reloading Time	3.5 s
180 Degree Turn Time	7.2 s
Optimal firing angles at the front	27°
Optimal firing angles at the rear	35°
Sigma	2.00 sigma
Maximum Dispersion	118 m
Shells
Type of Projectile	HE – 113 mm HE 5crh
Alpha Damage	1 700 HP
Damage	470 HP
Penetration capacity	19 mm
Explosion size	0.38
Fire chance	8 %
Projectile Speed	746 m/s
Air Drag	0.329
Projectile Mass	24.95 kg
Type of Projectile	AP – 113 mm SAP 55 lb
Alpha Damage	2 100 HP
Projectile Speed	746 m/s
Air Drag	0.33
Projectile Mass	25 kg
Projectile Krupp	1 600
Projectile Detonator	0.01 s
Detonator threshold	19 mm
Ricochet Angles	60° – 67.5°

 

1 x 5 533 mm PR Mk II 533 mm Mk IXM
Reloading Time	125 s
Maximum Distance	10.000 km
Optimal firing angles at the front	60°
Optimal firing angles at the rear	60°
Damage	16 767
Flooding Chance	282 %
Speed	62 kt
Surface Detectability	1.3 km

3 x 2 113 mm/45 RP 41 Mk VI
Sector range	0.1 km – 5.8 km
Hit chance	100 %
Sector’s damage	22
Sector’s damage frequency	0.29 s
Sector’s damage per second	77
Flak clouds number	4
Flak cloud damage	1 610
2 x 1 40 mm Bofors Mk VII 2 x 2 40 mm Bofors Mk V
Sector range	0.1 km – 3.5 km
Hit chance	100 %
Sector’s damage	88
Sector’s damage frequency	0.29 s
Sector’s damage per second	25

Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3	Slot 4
Damage Control Party Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 40 s	Crawling Smoke Generator Number of charges: 3 Work time: 90 s Cooldown: 160 s Smoke radius: 450 m Smoke duration: 10 s	Hydroacoustic Search Number of charges: 3 Work time: 120 s Cooldown: 120 s Torpedo spotting range: 3.5 km Ship spotting range: 5.0 km	Engine Boost Number of charges: 3 Work time: 120 s Cooldown: 120 s Bonus: +8% speed

The Armor

The Vampire II presents the same armor profile as the Daring. The hull is protected by 19 mm of armor while the superstructure is protected by 13 mm of armor. For the turrets, they are only covered by a 6 mm plating.

Personal opinion

Right now, this ship looks absolutely terrifying. It’s a Daring (AKA an already strong gunboat) but with longer range, stronger hydroacoustic search and with crawling smoke that gives it much better freedom of movement.

All you really lose is 1 000 HP and a torpedo tube which is really not the end of the world.

Edit: I somehow had in mind that Daring has the same reload while she actually has 2.8s reload. Compared to Daring, you roughly lose 20% DPM but considering the rest of the package, it’s quite understandable.

Also, with the last version of the public test, Vampire got the Engine boost instead of the Repair party initially announced on the devblog.

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