![]() ![]() Even perfectly aimed broadsides often fail to achieve anything of notice.All in all, a poor introduction to the battleship line, especially when played poorly. She is easy prey for stealth torpedoes and cannot adequately deal with charging destroyers due to her dispersion (though her secondary weapons may score a few hits). Her rate of fire is low, her speed average at best and her dispersion horrid. The Kawachi is not a good ship for her tier and almost always a chore for a first time battleship captain to steer. Since the ship's turrets are not super-firing like South Carolina, a valid strategy to both reduce damage and increase your damage output is to constantly turn to change your angle, allowing the use of both sets of wing turrets. However, the IJN Kawachi has the advantage in her far smaller detection radius, allowing her to always close into gun range before being spotted. South Carolina has the advantage in gun range at 11 km when fully upgraded. However, 305mm cannon fire will penetrate her armor regularly and, if not angled, strike her citadel. ![]() Similarly, her superstructure is small and difficult to hit with HE rounds, affording her some protection from HE damage. Kawachi`s protection is solid, with AP penetrations from similar tier light cruiser guns fairly unlikely. Like all battleships in the lower tiers, Kawachi`s shell dispersion is extremely scattered, resulting is far more misses than hits at any range but point blank.Ĭomparatively speaking to the South Carolina and USN Standard Battleships, the Kawachi`s speed is standard with a maximum speed of 20.4 knots, which is sufficient to keep pace with most lower tier cruisers but is still not enough for you to freely re-position on the map. ![]() Kawachi requires thirty seconds to reload a main battery, resulting in the same rate of fire as her American tier counterpart South Carolina, but significantly slower than Nassau. First thing to note is that the Kawachi`s turret arrangement, like her German tier counterpart Nassau (which her design was actually based on), uses two wing turrets on each side of the ship in addition to her bow and stern turret thus there will always be at least two main batteries shadowed regardless of which direction you are shooting at. Kawachi is Japan's first dreadnought, and the first battleship in the Japanese Battleship line. ![]()
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