General-Purpose Build: The standard load for a cruiser, this generally focuses on anti-surface capabilities. Like many American cruisers, Wichita has two optimal builds associated with her. Slot 5: Concealment System Modification 1.Slot 2: Surveillance Radar Modification 1 or Engine Room Protection.The recommended upgrades for Wichita are as follows: Despite lacking the super heavy AP shells of the tech tree cruisers, her AP is still quite powerful against broadside targets, and captains should use her AP whenever possible given its improved ricochet and auto-bounce angles.įans of American heavy cruiser play should have few issues making effective use of Wichita.Īs a premium ship, Wichita has no module upgrades to research. Her rather high shell arcs make leading targets at maximum range challenging, but not impossible. Like other American heavy cruisers, using islands as hard cover and utilizing her Surveillance Radar to support friendly destroyers should be her primary objectives. Wichita plays nearly identically to Baltimore, with the only exception being her marginally less effective firepower. She has more speed and is quicker to respond to rudder commands than her tech tree cousin. On the upside, she is notably stealthier than Baltimore: 9.5 km surface detection when fully rigged for stealth, and her handling characteristics bear a strong resemblance to those of Tier VII American premium cruiser Boise (fitting, given that Wichita’s hull is essentially that of a Brooklyn-class light cruiser). Additionally, her anti-aircraft suite is not quite as robust her mid-range aura is about half as good as Baltimore’s and her mid-range flak is roughly 2/3 as strong. This gives her slightly less AP punch than Baltimore. Unlike Baltimore, she does not have the famous American 'super-heavy' AP shells, and continues to use the same AP rounds fired by Tier VII American cruiser New Orleans. Wichita has some key differences from her tech tree counterpart.

Like her tech-tree counterpart, Baltimore, Wichita possesses 27mm bow plating, allowing her to resist being over-matched by the 380mm guns found on many battleships of her tier. Wichita is the first Tier VIII Premium American cruiser, and the second premium heavy cruiser available for the US tech tree after the Tier VII Indianapolis (with the exception of X Salem). The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's 'Actual AA DPS'.

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