The ambitious project started out with a selection process of 24 designs. Knowing that Japan couldn’t out-produce the US, the IJN opted to make individual ships that were superior to their US counterparts.ĭesign work on this new class of battleships commenced in 1934, the year Japan pulled out of the League. The Government understood that her empire would come into conflict with the United States, and devised plans for countering this new, potential threat. To the world’s shock, Japan decided to withdraw from the League, which also meant she didn’t have to adhere to the aforementioned treaties. But by the 1930s, Japan’s increasingly expansionist policies came under scrutiny by the League of Nations. The Yamato-class battleships were the next class of warships designed by the Japanese Navy after a long hiatus due to the ratification of a plethora of interwar naval treaties.

Overall, she is a powerful asset that, with the right build, good teammates, and in the hands of a skilled player, will dominate the battle and can even control it. With some good aim and luck, Yamato's glaring damage can wipe battleships off the sea, allowing more vulnerable cruisers, such as Des Moines and Hindenburg, to mop up the remaining enemies. Her guns are so massive, and combined with their immense accuracy, she is a formidable foe. She may not be the fastest, the stealthiest, or the Tier X battleship with the highest RoF, but her armor, gun caliber, and health more than makeup for it. Keep in mind that her high citadel can easily be hit if the enemy manages to penetrate your armor, especially since the citadel is weirdly shaped and can be punched through below the a and b turret and and y turret.ĭespite all of these drawbacks, Yamato is a very robust battleship in a long-ranged and defensive position. In addition, even though your armor is solid, in the game you should still try to angle your ship as sometimes shells may have a chance to hit home and deal glaring damage.

Hence it is advised to stay near ships that have solid AA suites such as cruisers for an AA 'aegis' to be created. Being one of the biggest ships in the game, Yamato is constantly targeted by Aircraft Carriers, and despite the numerous AA guns, Yamato’s AA firepower is quite lacking when compared to other T10 battleships, so much so that a high tier carrier can still get planes through, making aerial attacks Yamato's greatest weakness. The guns, while having better accuracy than Conqueror, Montana, and Großer Kurfürst, are very unforgiving, with a 30 second reload stock, which can be decreased to just under 27 seconds at the expense of further reducing its abysmal turret traverse by using a piece of equipment. However, with a long rudder shift time and extremely slow turret traverse, one must plan all actions, or risk being caught off-guard and unable to react. With a turning radius of 800m and a top speed of 27 knots, she is also surprisingly maneuverable despite her large size, though still quite short of her real-life maneuverability. In the game, Yamato represents the upgraded 1945 variant while Musashi depicts the original version. She, along with her sister ship Musashi holds the record for best torpedo protection in the game, with a value of 56%, which is rather surprising considering that in real life, they both suffered from weak torpedo protection due to design flaws with the area joining the upper and lower armor belts. While her individual AA mounts are mediocre, the sheer number of AA guns, nearly 150 25mm AA barrels (in real life, 162 25mm AA barrels in the latest upgrade), and 24 127mm DP guns provide a mild deterrent, particularly against lower-tier carriers.

Her guns have the one of the highest citadel hit damage of any round in the game, at 14800 HP per citadel hit. She has the fourth-largest hit points of any ship at tier X at a staggering 97200 next to Vermont’s 102800 Großer Kurfürst’s 105800, and Kremlin’s 108300. The pinnacle of all Japanese battleship design philosophy and possibly of the entire world, Yamato gains its place as one of the most solid battleships at her tier. 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'.

Yamato battle group