
With lower tier matchmaking Italian secondaries become more useful, but still are not reliable).ĭarn 🙁 after weeks of fun in the LePanto I was really looking forward to the release of the Colombo but now… frankly I have done well with an IGFE full 2ndary build which bumps the penetration of the LP’s secondary HE just enough to ensure meaningful damage, making it a serious problem for approaching cruisers and dd’s. The only way they can really compare is firing chance (obviously, I’m considering a tier 10 matchmaking. Now, counting the absolute dpm the italian secondaries will win and by far, but considering the effective one (which means the one you will actually have in battle) they have no mathematical hope of dealing as much damage as a German one. GK’s secondaries can penetrate 32mm for the 128mm cannons (every type of plating except ice breakers, some battleships’ and cruisers’ decks) and 38mm for the 150mm ones (everything up to American BB’s decks except for Vermont). This leaves the true damage to the 152mm guns, which can still only pen 25mm of armour (all superstructures and some cruisers’ plating). They can obviously start fires, if lucky enough. Ifhe takes them to 17mm, same situation as before.

The 90mm guns have 15mm of pen, which means they can only materially penetrate destroyers’ superstructure.
