Supertest: German Tier IX Premium Destroyer ZF-6
3 min readSoooo… the ZF-6… before I talk about it, let’s first talk about ZF2/ZF6 as it was historically.
ZF2, initially referred to as ZF6 by the Germans, was the uncompleted hull of L’Opiniâtre, an uncompleted Le Hardi-class destroyer of the French Marine Nationale. The idea was to arm the ship with 5 single gunshield-protected 128 mm guns and 2 quadruple torpedo launchers.
In the end, work on that hull was never completed and the hull was demolished in 1944 to be later scrapped at the end of the war.
ZF-6… from what I could gather, it would be based on the TA 34 (II) which was the uncompleted hull of a 1938/1938 Bis Improved Le Hardi-class, also captured by the Germans. This would make sense as the dimensions of the ZF-6 (overall length, beam, freeboard and full displacement tonnage) do fit those of the improved Le Hardi as well as its engine power.
The only thing that wouldn’t really fit is the choice of the guns and mounts for the main battery but at this point… let’s just let it go.
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.
Hull | Engine | Gun Fire Control System | Main battery | Torpedoes |
ZF-6 |
Propulsion: 62 000 hp |
FKS Typ 10 Mod. 1 |  128 mm/61 KM40 on a Tbts LC/44 mount |
G7a T1 Ausf. B |
Commemorative flag for the ship
General Characteristics
| Tier | IX |
| Health | 17 000 HP |
| Torpedo Damage Reduction | 0 % |
| Displacement | 2 920 tons |
| Main Armament | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 11.860 km |
| 128 mm/61 KM40 on a Tbts LC/44 mount 128 mm/61 KM40 on an LDrh LC/44 mount | 3 x 1 128 mm 1 x 2 128 mm |
| Torpedo Armament | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 8.000 km |
| 533 mm Vierling | 2 x 4 533 mm |
| Maximum speed | 35 knots |
| Turning Circle Radius | 670 m |
| Rudder Shift Time | 3.9 s |
| Surface Detectability | 7.42 km |
| Air Detectability | 3.2 km |
| Detectability After Firing Main Guns in Smoke | 2.79 km |
Main Battery
| 3 x 1 128 mm/61 KM40 on a Tbts LC/44 mount 1 x 2 128 mm/61 KM40 on an LDrh LC/44 mount | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 11.860 km |
| Reloading Time | 5 s |
| 180 Degree Turn Time | 18 s |
| Optimal firing angles at the front | 30° |
| Optimal firing angles at the rear | 30° |
| Sigma | 2.00 sigma |
| Maximum Dispersion | 104 m |
| Shells | |
| Type of Projectile | HE – 128 mm Spr.Gr. |
| Alpha Damage | 1 450 HP |
| Damage | 460 HP |
| Penetration capacity | 32 mm |
| Explosion size | 0.41 |
| Fire chance | 6 % |
| Projectile Speed | 880 m/s |
| Air Drag | 0.303 |
| Projectile Mass | 26 kg |
| Type of Projectile | AP – 128 mm P.Spr.Gr. |
| Alpha Damage | 2 950 HP |
| Projectile Speed | 880 m/s |
| Air drag | 0.303 |
| Projectile Mass | 26 |
| Projectile Krupp | 1 640 |
| Projectile Detonator | 0.01s |
| Detonator Threshold | 21 mm |
| Ricochet Angles | 60° – 67.5° |
Torpedo Armament
| 2 x 4 533 mm Vierling G7a T1 Ausf. B | |
| Reloading Time | 120 s |
| Maximum Distance | 8.000 km |
| Optimal firing angles at the front | 50° |
| Optimal firing angles at the rear | 49° |
| Damage | 18 400 |
| Flooding Chance | 311 % |
| Speed | 75 kt |
| Surface Detectability | 1.8 km |
Anti-air Armament
| 3 x 1 128 mm/61 KM40 on a Tbts LC/44 mount 1 x 2 128 mm/61 KM40 on an LDrh LC/44 mount | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 6.0 km |
| Hit chance | 100 % |
| Sector’s damage | 15 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 53 |
| Flak clouds number | 3 |
| Flak cloud damage | 1 540 |
| 2 x 1 55 mm/77 Gerät 58 on a single mount | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 4.0 km |
| Hit chance | 100 % |
| Sector’s damage | 20 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 70 |
| 2 x 2 30 mm/45 Flak 103/38 on a twin mount 2 x 4 30 mm/45 Flak 103/38 on a quadruple mount | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 3.0 km |
| Hit chance | 95 % |
| Sector’s damage | 33 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 116 |
Consumables
Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5 |
Damage Control Party  Work time: 5 sCooldown: 40 s | Smoke Generator  Number of charges: 3Work time: 20 s Cooldown: 160 s Smoke radius: 450 m Smoke duration: 73 s | Engine Boost  Number of charges: 3Work time: 120 s Cooldown: 120 s Boost: +8% maximum speed | Main Battery Reload Booster  Number of charges: 4Work time: 15 s Cooldown: 100 s Boost: -50% main battery reload time | Defensive AA Fire  Number of charges: 3Work time: 40 s Cooldown: 80 s Continuous Damage: +50% Damage from shell explosions: +300% |
The Armor
The ZF-6 presents the classic armor protection of tier IX destroyers.
Personal Opinion
Well right now, the ship honestly looks solid.
The firepower with the reload booster will be very nice, the torps are the same as those of the high-tier French destroyers but with 8 of them and the concealment is also quite good.
I’m honestly looking forward to get my hands on her even though I can already see her getting nerfed.
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Interesting… KM40 was a land-based flak gun (FlaK 40) and the most I could find quickly that there was only paper-projects for on-board usage. I am curious if this is a WG-dev-brainfart … ooor they found some REAL documents in the Militärarchiv
Just for the total confusion: in WoWS “KM40” guns used namely on Aegir, Siegfried, Odin, F.d.G, GK and Gneisenau 2nd hull – the turret model of those resembles of the LDrh LC/38 150mm turret; that was used on Type36A destroyers (and planned for “O” cl*** aka. Aegir, Siegfried…)
As we know: WG has “highly skilled historical specialists” and they do “(as much as) historical content”
It does have navalized mount called “LM40” (plus RPC mount prototype was in process before war end) but idk why they don’t use it?