In general, you want the shell to hit the armor with the most angle possible, which can mean different things depending on distance, speed, turning, and so on.

If you're really close, the angling on your turrets might be bad because they're all pointing to a single point along the side of the ship rather than perpendicular to its armor.Īlso, fighting enemy ships that are higher tiers can cause issues for your ability to penetrate, because they have thicker armor. Generally you shoot the broadside of a boat and you're fine. You need to play a total of 5 battles to post in this section. 45-90 degrees -> ricochet doesn't occurĪs of 0.7.6, no ships have 'worse' angles.Most ships use the following angles for AP ricochets: Not sure which mod specifically, but yeah, uh, if you use mods you might get banned now I guess.

And well, since the only mods I have ever used were in the Aslain modpack or official modstation, I cant think of anything else. However, HE shells still has a chance to start fires or break modules with its splash damage). Please note that continued use of prohibited mods will result in a permanent game suspension on your game account. Non-penetrations (bounce/ricochet) will always deal 0 damage, regardless of AP or HE (the latter cannot ricochet). To install mods you need to use either Aslains modpack or official WoWS Modstation tool. Even if you don't read the entire thing, there's some useful animated images that should help you get the concepts here:

World of warships relative angle mod