New Ship: Baotou - Tier IX Pan-Asian (Chinese) Premium Cruiser

Baotou - Tier IX Pan-Asian (Chinese) Premium Cruiser

A light cruiser design (Project 84) which was developed in the USSR in 1955. The mid-1950s were precisely a time of intense naval cooperation between the USSR and the PRC, which could have led to the transfer of one such warship to the People's Liberation Army Navy.

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Key Features

• Sharpshooting Main Battery: Armed with eight 180mm guns featuring improved AP ricochet angles and excellent ballistics, making long-range hits reliable.
• Deep-Water Lethality: Equipped with high-speed, high-damage deep-water torpedoes that are difficult for capital ships to detect.
• Consumable Specialist: Features 8 charges of Torpedo Reload Booster and a Fast Damage Control Team to manage fires and floods quickly.
• Combat Instructions: Successful main battery hits charge a unique ability that drastically reduces consumable cooldown times.
• Superior Mobility and AA: Boasts a high top speed and a robust anti-air suite to fend off carrier strikes.

Battle Tips

• Manage the Reload: With a longer-than-average reload time for 180mm guns, every salvo counts. Use your superior ballistics to punish broadside cruisers and destroyers from a distance rather than engaging in a close-quarters brawl.
• Cycle Your Instructions: Your Combat Instructions are the "engine" of your ship. Aggressively stack hits to refresh your Torpedo Reload Booster, allowing you to bypass the limitation of having only one launcher per side.
• Beware the "Blind Spot": Since Baotou lacks Hydroacoustic Search, you are highly vulnerable to torpedoes and destroyers lurking in smoke. Avoid pushing blindly into caps or narrow channels without screen support.
• Mitigate Large Profile Risks: The ship is a large target with below-average maneuverability. Plan your turns carefully; catching a heavy salvo mid-turn can be fatal given your light cruiser armor.
• Stingy Repair Usage: While the Fast Damage Control Team is powerful, the charges are limited. Don't waste a charge on a single fire unless you are under heavy focus or at risk of a follow-up flood.

Ship Info

Ship Name:   IX Baotou

Level: 9

WG introduction: March 5, 2026

Status during tests:  IX Baotou

Base value: 21,500

Estimated release: 15.4

Game Nation:  Pan-Asia  China

Armor

Hit points: 47,200

Plating: 25 mm

Fires duration: 30 s

Torpedo Protection, Damage Reduction: 19%

Main Battery Armament

4 x 2 180 mm:

Max Range: 17.6 km

Reload: 8.4 s

180° Turn Time: 18.0 s

Dispersion: 155 m

Sigma: 2.05σ

Min Shell Switching Time: 8.4 s

Shell Types

HE Shells

8x 180 mm HE:

Alpha Damage: 2,500

Alpha Piercing HE: 30.0 mm

Ammo Type: High Explosive

Shell Speed: 1000.0 m/s

Burn Probability: 13%

AP Shells

8x 180 mm AP:

Alpha Damage: 4,450

Ammo Type: Armor Piercing

Shell Speed: 1000.0 m/s

Torpedoes - Deep Water

2 x 5 533 mm:

Maximum Damage: 18,800

Maximum Range: 13.5 km

Speed: 69 kt

Detectability Range: 0.8 km

Torpedo Tube Reload Time: 128 s

180 Degree Turn Time: 7.2 s

Airstrike

Not Available

Depth Charges

Maximum Damage: 2100

Number of Charges: 2

Bombs in a Charge: 10

Reload Time: 40 s

Secondaries

6 x 2 100 mm HE:

Range: 7.0 km

Reload: 4.0 s

Damage: 1,400 hp

Chance of Fire: 6%

HE Armour Penetration Capacity: 17 mm

Shell Velocity: 1000 m/s

Anti Aircraft Armament

Continuous damage: 293

Long Range

4 x 2 180 mm;
6 x 2 100 mm:

Firing range: 6.9 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage Within an Explosion: 1,610

Damage by long-range AA guns: 179

Number of Explosions Per Salvo: 8

Priority sector reinforcement: 50%

Mid Range

6 x 4 57 mm:

Firing range: 4.0 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage by medium-range AA guns: 252

Short Range

Not Available

Mobility

Maximum speed: 36.0 kt

Turning circle radius: 850 m

Rudder shift time: 11.1 s

Propulsion: soon hp

Detection

Detectability range by sea: 12.8 km

Detectability after firing a main gun shell: 17.6 km

Detectability after firing main guns in smoke: 7.2 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 14.8 km

Detectability range by depths: 0.0-8.4 km

Detectability range by air: 8.4 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 10.4 km

Combat Instructions

Activation effects

Consumable preparation and reload time: -95%

Action Time: 15.0 s

Instructions

Hit an enemy ship with a main battery shell: 1%

Destroy or assist in the destruction of an enemy ship: 100%

Time before you start losing progress: 30 s

Progress loss per second: 5%

Available Consumables

Slot 1: Fast Damage Control Team

Charges: 3

Work time: 10 s

Reload time: 30 s

Slot 2: Repair Party

Charges: 3

HP per second: +236

Duration time: 28 s

Reload time: 80 s

Slot 3: Torpedo Reload Booster

Charges: 8

Torpedo Reload time: 3 s

Reload time: 160 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.