This skill typically enables cruisers to penetrate the plating of battleships of the same tier but at the cost of fire chance. The commander skill Inertia Fuse for HE Shells increases HE penetration by 25% at the expense of a halved base fire chance (the additional fire chance of signals and skills is not halved). While the penetration damage of a light cruiser's HE might be negligible, multiple and repeated fires are a real danger even to behemoths such as Yamato.

For a very heavily armored or angled target, incapacitating modules can be important but setting fires is the main purpose of HE. For a very lightly armored target like a destroyer, AP can simply blow right through it without fusing, doing little damage, while HE will always explode and usually penetrate. HE shells can be used in different ways, depending on the target.

Modules protected by 76mm or thicker armor are immune from blast damage so larger main gun turrets are safe, but most if not all secondary and AA batteries and torpedo launchers are vulnerable, as are engines and steering gear. Blast damage and fire may be inflicted whether or not it penetrates. explode on contact (with anything) creating a blast volume in which lightly armored modules can be damaged or destroyed, even if the shell does not hit the ship itself ĭirect damage to the ship is inflicted only if the shell penetrates the part of the ship it hits.do produce Shatter ribbons, but these are No Penetration hits that may well do blast damage.can penetrate light armor for direct ship damage.

IJN HE will do more damage than other nations, and KM HE less.) In summary, HE shells: The performance of an HE shell is determined by two things: the caliber of the shell (and thus the amount of high explosive it contains), and certain national attributes (e.g. They are not expected to punch through heavy armor but to create a blast volume of concussion, flame, and fragments, perhaps penetrating structure or light armor and wrecking things like modules within the blast volume. High Explosive (HE) shells have a relatively light casing, are packed with high explosive, and are fused to explode on contact.

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