Pioneer: Tier X Commonwealth (Australian) Premium Light Cruiser

An Australian cruiser, a further development of the light cruiser design with sixteen 152 mm guns considered in Great Britain in the late 1930s, combined with a distinctive feature of three-level superfiring main battery turrets adopted from the Dido-class cruiser design, and one of the sketches of the Minotaur project (Design Z4C).

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Key Features of Pioneer

The most striking element of Pioneer is the distribution of her main battery. While she carries sixteen 152mm guns in 4 quadruple turrets, just like X Plymouth, Pioneer carries 3 of these turrets forward in a super firing arrangement similar to that of VI Dido, allowing you to use 75% of your firepower when firing forward. However, the rear turret has relatively poor firing angles forward, making it hard to get all guns into action without giving broadside. This main battery benefits from a very good reload speed, allowing you to inflict a lot of damage to your targets, even while not revealing your broadside. While her firepower is impressive for a Light Cruiser, care must be taken in its use as she has a fairly short-ranged main battery and torpedoes relative to other ships at her tier.

Battle Tips

In battle, Pioneer will benefit from a strong yet slow set of consumables. Like her Tech Tree sisters, she has the Crawling Smoke Generator typical of Commonwealth cruisers, allowing you to remain mobile and effective while still covered by smoke. This will be vital since, while she has decent concealment, her hull is quite large for a light cruiser and is not the most agile or resilient, making you vulnerable to more heavily armed opponents. Pioneer carries both a long-range Surveillance Radar, similar to that of the other X Brisbane, as well as the Improved Submarine Surveillance found on X Cerberus. However, both of these consumables will require a long time to prepare, meaning that to have the most impact, you must preserve yourself for the mid to late game.
Overall, Pioneer will be a solid support cruiser with her impressive albeit short-ranged firepower, able to assist the team in the later stages of a battle with her powerful consumable set, so long as you survive long enough to use them.

Pioneer Info

Ship Name:   X Pioneer

level: 10

Rarity Level: soon

WG Introduction: October 27, 2025

Base value: soon

Estimated release: 15.0

Game Nation:  Commonwealth (Australia)

Current development status: Work in Progress

Note: Basic WG devs stats, I will update the stats when they become available ~November 6th.

Armor

Hit points: 46,900

Plating: 25 mm

Fires duration: 30 s

Torpedo protection: 1%

Main Battery Armament

4 x 4 152 mm:

Firing range: 14.5 km

Reload time: 7.8 s

180-degree turn time: 30.0 s

Maximum dispersion: 133 m

Sigma: 2.05σ

Shell Types

HE Shells:

16x 152 mm:

Maximum HE shell damage: 2,100

Ammo Type: High Explosive

Alpha Piercing HE: 30.0 mm

HE Shell initial velocity: 841.0 m/s

Chance of causing fire: 9.0%

AP Shells:

16x 152 mm:

Maximum AP shell damage: 3,100

Ammo Type: Armor Piercing

AP Shell initial velocity: 841.0 m/s

Depth Charge Airstrike

Reload time: 30.0 s

Available flights: 3

Number of Aircraft in Attacking Flight: 1

Maximum range: 11.0 km

Number of Bombs in Payload: 2x

Maximum bomb damage: 3900

Secondary Armament:

6 x 2 102.0 mm

Maximum range: 7.3 km

Reload time: 3.0 s

Maximum HE shell damage: 1,500

Chance to cause fire: 6%

HE initial velocity: 811 m/s

HE shell armor penetration: 17 mm

Torpedoes:

4 × 4 533 mm:

Range: 6.0 km

Reload: 120 s

Alpha Damage: 16,767

Speed: 65 kts

180 degree turn time: 7.2 s

Torpedo detectability: 1.3 km

Chance of Flood: 282%

Anti Aircraft Defence

Long Range:

6 x 2 102.0 mm:

Action Zone: 3.5-5.8 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage Within an Explosion: 1400

Continuous Damage Per Second: 70

Continuous Damage: soon

Number of Explosions Per Salvo: 4

Mid Range:

6 x 6 40.0 mm
8 x 1 40.0 mm:

Action Zone: 3.5 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Continuous Damage Per Second: 333

Short-Range:

12 x 2 20.0 mm:

Continuous damage per second: 154

Hit probability: 70 %

Action zone: 2.0 km

Mobility

Maximum speed: 34.0 kt

Turning circle radius: 760 m

Rudder shift time: 10.5 s

Propulsion: soon hp

Visibility

Surface detectability: 12.3 km

Air detectability: 8.3 km

Detectability after firing main guns in smoke: 6.2 km

Available Consumables

Slot 1: Damage Control Party:

Charges: unlimited

Work time: 5 s

Reload time: 60 s

Slot 2: Repair Party:

Charges: 3

Action time: 28 s

Reload time: 80 s

Regeneration per second: +234 hp/s

Slot 3: Crawling Smoke Generator:

Charges: 3

Action time: 102 s

Reload time: 130 s

Smoke dispersion time: 10.0 s

Slot 4: Surveillance Radar:

Charges: 3

Action time: 20 s

Reload time: 120 s

Ship detection radius: 12 km

Preparation time: 270 s

Slot 5: Submarine Surveillance:

Charges: 3

Duration time: 20 s

Range: 8 km

Reload time: 120 s

Preparation time: 270 s

Note: All stats are listed without crew and upgrade modifiers but with best available modules. The stats are subject to change at any time.

Important: All information in this post is 'Work in Progress', the announced adjustments and features may undergo multiple changes during testing, all changes will be added to this post immediately after they become available, the final details will be officially published and labelled in the ship info as 'Released' on this post.

Tags: cruiser supertest

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