Taejong - Tier X Pan-Asia Premium Cruiser 1944

A planned successor class to the Atlanta- and Oakland-class light cruisers, designed to take advantage of the new longer-barrelled 127 mm guns. Due to a large number of modern cruisers serving in the United States Navy, the new class would have been surplus to their naval needs with the end of World War II. Being advanced and well-equipped for nations looking to modernize their armed forces after World War II, such ships would have been prime candidates for foreign sales.

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Key Features and Battle Tips

Key Features

• Dual Firing Modes: Features a standard mode for high damage-per-minute firing and an alternative mode with improved ballistics for short-range combat.
• Main Battery: Fast-firing 127mm guns capable of sustaining high damage output.
• Torpedo Armament: Long-range, fast, and high-alpha damage deep water torpedoes.
• Consumables: Equipped with Repair Party, Surveillance Radar, and Engine Boost.
• High-Risk Profile: Characterized by low armor and a low HP pool, requiring careful positioning.

Battle Tips

• Playstyle Versatility: Treat the ship as two vessels in one. Utilize standard mode for mid-range island camping and supporting team pushes, and switch to alternative firing mode for aggressive, short-range destroyer hunting.
• Defensive Positioning: In standard mode, leverage your fast reload to rain shells from behind islands. Coordinate with allied destroyers to utilize their smoke screens for protection.
• Aggressive Pushing: Use the alternative firing mode to push destroyers out of caps. Ensure you only engage a small number of targets at once to avoid being overwhelmed, as disengaging from a 9km range is difficult.
• Manage Survivability: With thin armor, a low HP pool, and no defensive consumables beyond Repair Party, avoid open-water engagements. If you are spotted, your lack of defensive utility makes you highly vulnerable.
• Torpedo Usage: Deploy your long-range, high-damage deep water torpedoes as a deterrent against enemy pushes toward your team's objectives.

Ship Info

Ship Name:   X Taejong

Level: 10

WG introduction: June 10, 2026

Base value: 31,000

Estimated release: 15.8

Game Nation:  Pan-Asian

Armor

Hit points: 30,700

Fires duration: 30 s

Torpedo protection: 4%

Overall armor: 6-95 mm

Hull plating fore/mid/aft: 16/16-95/16 mm

Deck plating fore/mid/aft: 16/16/16 mm

Fore Athwartships: 32 mm

Aft Athwartships: 32 mm

Citadel Fore Athwartships: 16 mm

Citadel Aft Athwartships: 16 mm

Armor Belt: 32-95 mm

Citadel Bulkhead: 25 mm

Citadel Plating: 16 mm

Citadel Deck: 25-32 mm

Superstructure: 13 mm

Citadel Bottom: 40 mm

Turrets: 32 mm

Tonnage: 9,126 t

Main Battery Armament

6 x 2 127 mm/54 Mk.42 on a twin mount:

Firing range: 14.7 km

Reload time: 3.5 s

180-degree turn time: 4.5 s

Maximum dispersion: 135 m

Sigma: 2.05σ

Shell Types

HE Shells

12x 127 mm HE Mk.41:

Alpha Damage: 1,800

Alpha Piercing HE: 21.0 mm

Ammo Type: High Explosive

Shell Air Drag: 0.32

Shell Always Ricochet At: 60.0°

Normalization: 68.0°

Shell Detonator: 0.001

Shell Detonator Threshold: 2.0

Shell Diameter: 127 mm

Shell Krupp: 475.0

Shell Mass: 31.75 kg

Shell Ricochet At: 91.0°

Shell Speed: 808.0 m/s

Burn Probability: 9%

AP Shells

12x 127 mm AP/SC Mk38:

Alpha Damage: 2,100

Ammo Type: Armor Piercing

Shell Air Drag: 0.32

Shell Always Ricochet At: 60.0°

Normalization: 10.0°

Shell Detonator: 0.01

Shell Detonator Threshold: 21.0

Shell Diameter: 127 mm

Shell Krupp: 1720.0

Shell Mass: 31.75 kg

Shell Ricochet At: 45.0°

Shell Speed: 808.0 m/s

Alternative Fire Mode

Reload time: 7.5s

Maximum main battery range: 9 km

Maximum main battery dispersion: 95m

Depth Charges

Maximum damage: 2100

Number of charges: 2

Bombs in a charge: (12) 6 x 1 - 2 x 3

Reload time: 40 s

Burn Probability: 9%

Secondaries

Not Available

Torpedoes Deepwater

4 × 4 533 mm Mk31/Mk16:

Max Damage: 17,900

Range: 16.5 km

Reload: 125 s

Speed: 66 kts

180 degree turn time: 7.2 s

Torpedo detectability: 1.4 km

Anti Aircraft Armament

Continuous Damage: 444

Long Range

6 x 2 127 mm/54 Mk.42 on a twin mount:

Action Zone: 3.5 6.0 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage Within an Explosion: 1,820

Continuous Damage Per Second: 238

Number of Explosions Per Salvo: 10

Mid Range

8 x 2 76.2 mm/50 Mk.22 on a Mk.33 mount:

Action Zone: 4.0 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Continuous Damage Per Second: 270

Short Range

20 x 2 20 mm Oerlikon on a Mk.24 mount:

Firing range: 2.0 km

Hit Probability: 85 %

Damage by short-range AA guns: 238

Mobility

Maximum speed: 33.0 kt

Turning circle radius: 670 m

Rudder shift time: 7.7 s

Propulsion: 90,000 hp

Detection

Detectability range by sea: 10.2 km

Detectability after firing a main gun shell: 14.7 km

Detectability after firing main guns in smoke: 4.3 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 12.2 km

Detectability range by depths: 0.0-7.4 km

Detectability range by air: 7.4 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 9.4 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: +153 hp/s

Slot 3: Engine Boost

Charges: 3

Maximum speed: +8%

Duration time: 120 s

Reload time: 120 s

Slot 4: Surveillance Radar

Charges: 3

Action time: 25 s

Reload time: 120 s

Ship detection radius: 9.0 km

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.