Mainz
Tier VIII · Cruiser · Germany · Premium
Rating S (Elite within its tier and class · overall score 87) · Gunnery cruiser
Gunnery cruiser, suited to DD hunting. It is especially strong against destroyers (AP deals a same-tier destroyer's HP in about 3 min on paper · destroyer-calibre AP rarely overpens destroyers). Its AP main battery DPM of 59,014 is 21% above the same-tier cruiser average. Main battery range is 11.8 km (0.4 km longer than average), and dispersion at 10 km is about 202 m, 10% tighter than average. Key skills: Sonar II ×3 (4.5 km, 25 s); Rapid Reload I ×2 (main battery reload +18%, 20 s); Air Defense Alert I ×2. Detectability of 8.82 km is 0.3 km above average, so it gets spotted early; move behind islands.
Key stats
- HP: 33,748
- Top speed: 32.25 kn
- Surface detectability: 8.82 km
- Main battery: 150 mm 4X3 · reload 8.2 s · range 11.82 km
The project of a cruiser with 150 mm guns (cruiser K), which was developed in the mid-1930s on the basis of the Admiral Hipper-class ships, shortly after construction of the latter began. She combined the rapid-firing batteries of a light cruiser with the survivability of a heavy one.