Supertest: Italian Tier X Freemium Cruiser Napoli
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Ship review
The Napoli is based on a preliminary design from Ansaldo for the Soviet Project 22 Heavy cruiser. The historical design was called for a ship with nine 250 mm guns in three triple turrets with two superfiring at the front and one at the rear. The secondary battery would consist of twelve 130 mm guns in six twin turrets, and twelve 100 mm guns in six twin turrets as well. The design was also armed with two triple torpedo launchers located at the rear of the ship.
In the end, the design was abandoned.
In World of Warships, we are getting a more Italian version of this design of cruiser killer buuuuuuuuut… with a few awkward changes. From the start, let’s talk about the guns. One could expect that these 254 mm are a homemade design from the 30s. It absolutely isn’t. According to Wargaming, these are based on “a symbiosis of British 9.2″/50 Mark XI and 9.2″/51 Mark XI” (from WW1). They are, as such, 100% fake.
The secondary battery is also quite weird in terms of the position of the turrets and also the choice of 152 mm secondaries instead of the 135 mm ones.
There was a bit of a debate regarding the actual nature of the Napoli and whether it is a “classic” heavy cruiser or a large cruiser/supercruiser and it turns out that it’s a classic cruiser. The duration of fires for her is only 30 seconds like most cruisers in the game instead of 60 seconds on things like Alaska or Stalingrad.
When it comes to the dispersion of her secondaries (that are supposed to be one of her gimmick as they fire SAP shells), it is the same dispersion formula as the secondaries of Georgia, Massachusetts, etc.
Update: It turns out that WG did some last-minute changes to the ship and there is also a bug with her armor.
Her horizontal dispersion formula past 4 km is in fact Y= 8.9*X + 33 with X being the range in kilometers.
When it comes to her armor, the deck on the bow and stern is actually not 30 mm thick but 25 mm thick. This is a bug and it will be fixed soon.
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 |
Napoli | Propulsion: 240 000 hp | SDT 10 | ![]() 254 mm/60 M1939 | 533 mm Si 270 N |
General Characteristics
Tier | X |
Health | 59 200 HP |
Torpedo Damage Reduction | 22 % |
Displacement | 26 892 tons |
Dimensions | |
Overall length | 242.91 m |
Beam | 28.06 m |
Overall height (keel to the highest point on the ship) | 26.25 mm |
Freeboard | 6.28 m |
Draft | 11 m |
Main Armament | |
Maximum Firing Range | 16.280 km |
254 mm/60 M1939 | 3 x 3 254 mm |
Secondary Armament | |
Maximum Firing Range | 7.300 km |
152 mm/55 OTO 1936 90 mm/50 OTO 1939 | 4 x 3 152 mm 6 x 2 90 mm |
Torpedo Armament | |
Maximum Firing Range | 13.500 km |
533 mm tubo lanciasiluri | 2 x 4 533 mm |
Maximum speed | 35.5 knots |
Turning Circle Radius | 750 m |
Rudder Shift Time | 12.5 s |
Surface Detectability | 13.14 km |
Air Detectability | 9.7 km |
Detectability After Firing Main Guns in Smoke | 8.75 km |
Main Battery
3 x 3 254 mm/60 M1939 | |
Maximum Firing Range | 16.280 km |
Reloading Time | 17 s |
180 Degree Turn Time | 23.7 s |
Optimal firing angles at the front | 30° |
Optimal firing angles at the rear | 30° |
Sigma | 1.9 sigma |
Maximum Dispersion | 178 m |
Shells | |
Type of Projectile | HE – 254 mm proiettili HE![]() |
Alpha Damage | 3 450 HP |
Damage | 1 630 HP |
Penetration capacity | 42 mm |
Explosion size | 1.15 |
Fire chance | 16 % |
Projectile Speed | 954 m/s |
Air Drag | 0.29 |
Projectile Mass | 227.9 kg |
Type of Projectile | AP – 254 mm proiettili AP![]() |
Alpha Damage | 6 150 HP |
Projectile Speed | 945 m/s |
Air drag | 0.29 |
Projectile Mass | 227.9 |
Projectile Krupp | 2 650 |
Projectile Detonator | 0.033s |
Detonator Threshold | 42 mm |
Ricochet Angles | 45° – 60° |
Secondary battery
6 x 2 90 mm/50 OTO 1939 | |
Maximum Firing Range | 7.300 km |
Reloading Time | 4.0 s |
Sigma | 1.00 sigma |
Shells | |
Type of Projectile | SAP – 90 mm proiettili CS![]() |
Alpha Damage | 2 000 HP |
Penetration capacity | 26 mm |
Projectile Speed | 860 m/s |
Air Drag | 0.414 |
Projectile Mass | 10.1 kg |
Ricochet Angles | 70° – 80° |
4 x 3 152 mm/55 OTO 1936 | |
Maximum Firing Range | 7.300 km |
Reloading Time | 10.0 s |
Sigma | 1.00 sigma |
Shells | |
Type of Projectile | SAP – 152 mm proiettili CS 1926![]() |
Alpha Damage | 3 850 HP |
Penetration capacity | 42 mm |
Projectile Speed | 950 m/s |
Air Drag | 0.325 |
Projectile Mass | 44.3 kg |
Ricochet Angles | 70° – 80° |
Torpedo Armament
4 x 3 533 mm tubo lanciasiluri 533 mm Si 270 N | |
Reloading Time | 95 s |
Maximum Distance | 13.500 km |
Optimal firing angles at the front | 32° |
Optimal firing angles at the rear | 38° |
Damage | 13 900 |
Flooding Chance | 230 % |
Speed | 56 kt |
Surface Detectability | 1.1 km |
Anti-air Armament
6 x 2 90 mm/50 OTO 1939 | |
Sector range | 0.1 km – 4.6 km |
Hit chance | 90 % |
Sector’s damage | 29 |
Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
Sector’s damage per second | 102 |
Flak clouds number | 5 |
Flak cloud damage | 1 400 |
9 x 4 37 mm/54 Breda 1939 | |
Sector range | 0.1 km – 3.5 km |
Hit chance | 90 % |
Sector’s damage | 87 |
Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
Sector’s damage per second | 305 |
10 x 6 20 mm/70 Breda 1941 | |
Sector range | 0.1 km – 2.0 km |
Hit chance | 85 % |
Sector’s damage | 37 |
Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
Sector’s damage per second | 130 |
Consumables
Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 |
Damage Control Party ![]() Cooldown: 60 s | Exhaust Smoke Generator ![]() Number of charges: 2 Work time: 40 s Cooldown: 180 s Smoke duration time: 10 s Smoke radius: 510 m | Fighter ![]() Work time: 60 s Cooldown: 90 s Number of planes in a squadron: 4 | Repair Party ![]() Work time: 28 s Cooldown: 80 s HP regeneration speed: +0.5%/s |
The Armor
The Napoli, despite being a “normal cruiser” is one of the most well-armored cruisers of the entire game with a well-protected middle section and internal armored decks protecting her front and rear citadel as well as an extended belt at the front.
General armor protection:
Casemate internal plating:
Internal citadel protection:
Turrets armor protection:
Hidden armor platings:
Easter-egg
On the side of the Napoli’s rear superstructure, you can find a large golden plate. This plate is actually the Medal of Military Valor of the Kingdom of Italy.
The only reason I could see why it’s here is a reference to the fact that the city of Naples was awarded this medal after the Four Days of Naples in 1943 which was an uprising against the German occupation forces by the people of Naples.
Personal opinion
Sooo… now that it turns out that the cruiser dispersion and 30 mm deck on the bow and stern are wrong, I have to reconsider my judgment.
Her dispersion ends up being way less interesting than first announced and when considering the vertical dispersion, the disappointment is real. Past 11.5 km with the base firing range, it becomes really bad compared to other cruisers and the lower sigma will not help. With the range upgrade, it only becomes really bad above 13.6 km.


For the armor, even with the loss of the 30 mm deck on the bow and stern, it remains great so at least, she will tank really well.
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A weak cruiser without SAP
WG’s statement that the guns’ stats are “a symbiosis of British 9.2″/50 Mark XI and 9.2″/51 Mark XI” is pretty odd. I would think they should’ve amalgamated the stats of the 9.2″ Mk XII (calling it “Mark XI” was a typo I suppose) with the Italian Italian 10″/45 Model 1908 (since that’s the real-life Italian 254mm gun). Or better yet, the Italian 10″ gun and the 24cm/50 Elswick Pattern “E” (the Norwegian gun that BECAME the 9.2″/51 Mk XII, after being relined to fire the smaller British 9.2″ shells).
Oh well, whatever source they used to make up the stats, those 227.9kg shells are the correct size for an Italian 254mm gun. It’s just too bad that WG isn’t giving Napoli a 254mm SAP shell. Actually, it’s too bad they didn’t use this design except with an SAP shell as the Tier X in the tech tree, instead of the much faker 5×3 203mm Venezia.