Yumihari
Tier VIII · Battleship · Japan
Rating D (Bottom tier within its tier and class · overall score 12) · Agile battleship
Agile battleship. Top speed of 30.0 kn is 2 kn above average, with good turning, acceleration. Key skills: High-Precision Spotter I ×3 (main battery range +10%, main battery accuracy +11%, 25 s); Air Defense Alert I ×2. With only 52,111 effective HP, hit-and-run from cover works better than head-on fights. A survival equipment build adds damage reduction +9 pp, fire/flood resistance +10 pp, torpedo damage reduction +16 pp to shore up survivability. Detectability of 12 km is 0.86 km above average, so it gets spotted early; move behind islands.
Key stats
- HP: 45,076
- Top speed: 30.02 kn
- Surface detectability: 12 km
- Main battery: 410 mm 4X2 · reload 19.5 s · range 14.22 km
After the Russo-Japanese War ended, Japan adopted the Eight-Eight Fleet Program, stipulating that the fleet was supposed to consist of eight battleships and eight high-speed armored cruisers. This plan underwent many changes—for example, armored cruisers were replaced with battlecruisers, and the number of ships was reduced. However, after the outbreak of World War I, the construction of new ships began again. The design of a new battlecruiser project was a development of the Kongō class of ships. Later, the project was changed, resulting in the creation of the Amagi class.