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===Pros===
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* Good top speed
The German cruiser line truly begins here at Tier II with ''Dresden''.  Along with Tier III's ''[[Kolberg]]'', she is something of an anomaly in the overall context of the branch in that both ships will spend most of their time firing high-explosive shells at enemy cruisers and destroyers. 
* High damage per minute
* Long main battery firing range


This ship, and her successor ''[[Kolberg]]'', are well known for being an oddity in the German cruiser branch. While all German tech tree cruisers from Tier 7 and up are heavy cruisers, Dresden Kolberg barely qualify as light cruisers. In fact, they are more like gunboat destroyers. While she does have guns so small that higher-tier German ships use (a variant) of them as flak guns, Dresden can spew out an endless machine-gun stream of shells. That said, she can't do any damage whatsoever. Her AP shells are light and slow, with bad firing arcs, meaning they are worthless. Her HE shells are very bad, as is characteristic of German HE shells. With their 1/4 penetration values, Dresden will need to target destroyers or the superstructure of other ships to deal direct damage, with very few exceptions. However, HE shells still start fires, even if they don't penetrate. Additionally, since she will be meeting low-tier players who have poor DCP discipline, (excluding the seal-clubbers) she can burn everything to a crisp - except destroyers, who die so fast they don't have time to catch fire. She has low survivability, and poor maneuverability, but her speed is usable. She has horrible firing range and arcs, but accuracy doesn't matter when the whole map is raining shells.
===Cons===
* High detectability
* Low fire-starting capability
* Poor shell ballistics


Overall, Dresden is an oddity - something you will only find at low tiers. She is a small, fragile, protected cruiser, with bad maneuverability and usable speed. However, with a stupid number of guns (comparable to the Tier 3 ''[[St. Louis]]'' or ''[[Bogatyr]]'') and a machine-gun rate of fire (each gun capable of outputting 15 rounds per minute) she can melt destroyers and burn anything larger to a well-done steak. Play her to her strengths and she is still average or below-average, but a ton of fun to use, and a great hinderance to enemies, which will vastly help your team. And winning battles gets you out of her faster. Very few players will spend more than a few battles in Dresden, which makes it easy to only see a part of what she truly is - a fragile machine-gun firing mostly worthless bullets. Destroyers stand no chance against her, but most everything else is a serious threat, given her poor penetration values, poor survivability, maneuverability, and fire chances. Stay with allies, so you can be continuously firing without having to weather retaliation.


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==Ship Stats==
* Even bad, small HE shells can start fires - a swarm of bees will kill a bear.
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* Most barrels of any Tier II cruiser; roughly comparable to Tier III's ''[[Bogatyr]]'' or ''[[St. Louis]]''.
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* On the fast side for Tier II cruiser.
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* Given her ROF and gun count, she can machine-gun everything
! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | SURVIVABILITY !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (A) !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (B)
* Destroyers die so fast they don't have time to catch fire.
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Hit Points || style="color:inherit;" | 15800 || style="color:inherit;" | 17100
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* Shortest firing range of all Tier II cruisers found in the regular tech tree.
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* HE shells do extremely small amounts of damage and AP is practically worthless.
! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | ARMOR DETAIL !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" |
* Large turning radius for a ship her size makes dodging torpedoes a challenge.
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* High shell arc.
| style="color:inherit;" | • Belt (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 9
* When dealing with same-tier or higher-tier ships (other than destroyers) she is restricted to firing at the superstructure or waiting for DoT effects to take their toll.
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Deck (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 9
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Superstructure (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 6
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Extremities (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 6
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Availability of researchable upgrades for ''{{#var:ship_name}}'' is as follows:  
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* '''Hull:'''  Upgrade to Hull (B) for more health, faster rudder shift time, and more main battery guns.
! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | MANEUVERABILITY !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (A) !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (B)
* '''Gun Fire Control System:'''  Upgrade to FKS Typ 2 Mod. 2 for an extra 10% range on the main battery.  
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* '''Propulsion:'''  There is no propulsion module upgrade, but access to the beginning of the German destroyer branch (''[[V-25]]'') stems from here.
| style="color:inherit;" | • Maximum speed (kt) || style="color:inherit;" | 25.0 || style="color:inherit;" | 25.0
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Turning circle radius (m) || style="color:inherit;" | 420 || style="color:inherit;" | 420
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Rudder-shift time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 6.9 || style="color:inherit;" | 4.9
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Hull (B) is the top upgrade priority; not only does it increase ''Dresden''’s health pool, but she gains one more barrel in each broadside. Pick up the Fire Control System range upgrade second.
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! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | CONCEALMENT !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (A) !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | Dresden (B)
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Detectability by sea (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 9.2 || style="color:inherit;" | 9.2
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Detectability by air (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 3.6 || style="color:inherit;" | 3.6
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Detectability after firing main guns in smoke (km) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 3.4
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Detectability by depths (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 3.6 || style="color:inherit;" | 3.6
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! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | MAIN BATTERY !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | FKS Typ 2 Mod. 1 !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | FKS Typ 2 Mod. 2
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Arrangement || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 10×1 105mm
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Firing range (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 9.9 || style="color:inherit;" | 10.9
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Reload time (sec) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 5.0
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Rate of fire (shots/min) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 12
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| style="color:inherit;" | • 180° turn time (sec) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 18.0
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The recommended upgrades for ''{{#var:ship_name}}'' are as follows:
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* '''Slot 1''': {{Main Armaments Modification 1}}<nowiki>*</nowiki>
! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | DISPERSION !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" |
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Dispersion type || style="color:inherit;" | Standard CA/CL dispersion
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Dispersion formula || style="color:inherit;" | Dispersion (m) = 6.9 × range(km) + 33
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Sigma || style="color:inherit;" | 2.0
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Maximum dispersion (m) || style="color:inherit;" | 101
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Dispersion at 5 km || style="color:inherit;" | 68
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Dispersion at 9.92 km || style="color:inherit;" | 101
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''Dresden'' only has access to '''Upgrade Slot 1'''. Given the bare handful of games most captains will spend in her this is a fairly minor upgrade; either '''Main Armaments Modification 1''' is recommended.
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! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | HE SHELL !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" |
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Name || style="color:inherit;" | 105 mm Spr.Gr. L/3.85
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Maximum damage || style="color:inherit;" | 1200
|-
| style="color:inherit;" | • Fire chance (%) || style="color:inherit;" | 4.0%
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Shell velocity (m/s) || style="color:inherit;" | 710
|-
| style="color:inherit;" | • Shell weight (kg) || style="color:inherit;" | 17.4
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| style="color:inherit;" | • Penetration (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 26
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{{Commander Skills 3 CR
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| rating15 = 1 <!-- Incoming Fire Alert -->
| style="color:inherit;" | 8 mm || style="color:inherit;" | 4 × 1
| rating16 =  <!-- Last Stand -->
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'''Continuous damage''' — average DPS within each action zone
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| rating25 = 3 <!-- Priority Target -->
| style="color:inherit;" | Short-range || style="color:inherit;" | 18 || style="color:inherit;" | 85% || style="color:inherit;" | 1.5
| rating26 =  <!-- Expert AA Marksman -->
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| rating31 = 3 <!-- Heavy HE and SAP Shells -->
| rating32 =  <!-- Enhanced Torpedo Explosive Charge -->
| rating33 = 3 <!-- Adrenaline Rush -->
| rating34 =  <!-- Heavy AP Shells -->
| rating35 =  <!-- Superintendent -->
| rating36 =  <!-- Survivability Expert -->


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| rating43 = 1 <!-- Radio Location -->
| rating44 =  <!-- Inertial Fuse for HE Shells -->
| rating45 = 3 <!-- Concealment Expert -->
| rating46 =  <!-- AA Gunner -->
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<h2>SMS ''{{#var:ship_name}}'', 1908</h2>
===Construction===
:Builder: Blohm & Voss Shipbuilding; Hamburg, Germany
:Laid down: 1906
:Launched: 5 October 1907
:Commissioned: 14 November 1908
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===Specifications===
:3,664 tons displacement, standard
:117.9m length
:13.5m beam
:5.5m draft
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====Machinery====
:12 boilers, 4 turbines
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====Performance====
:24 knots at 15,000 shaft horsepower
:3,600 nautical miles at 14 knots
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====Armor====
:Decks: 20-30m
:Gunshields: 50mm
:Conning tower: 100mm
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====Armament====
=====Main=====
:Ten (10x1) 105mm gun
=====Secondary=====
:Ten (10x1) 52mm guns
=====Torpedoes=====
:Two (2x1) 457mm submerged torpedo tubes
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[[File:SMS_Dresden_German_Cruiser.jpg|none|frame|x400px|link=|The light cruiser ''Dresden'' passes through the Kiel Canal, 1910.]]
 
===History===
====Design====
Laid down in at the Blohm and Voss yards in Hamburg in 1906, SMS ''Dresden'' was launched on 5 October 1907 and commissioned into the German High Seas Fleet in November 1908.  She was one of five large cruisers ordered following the passage of one of the amendments to Alfred von Tirpitz’s original fleet plans drafted in 1898.  Armed with ten (10) 105mm guns, she and her sister ship ''[[Emden]]'' had a twofold role in the High Seas Fleet: to serve as advance scouts and escorts when sailing with friendly capital ships, or to act against enemy commercial shipping when operating independently. 
 
====Service====
By early 1914, ''Dresden'' found herself operating in the Caribbean Sea, representing German interests in the area.  The Mexican governments of the era were fairly unstable, and she spent much of her time occupied with assisting friendly-flagged vessels in Mexican ports or ferrying German citizens out of the country.  In mid-July she transported the recently deposed Mexican president to Jamaica, where the British had granted him asylum.  She was scheduled to return to Germany for refit and overhaul, but upon arriving in Jamaica learned of the mounting tensions in Europe that culminated with the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia on 28 July. 
 
Three days later, ''Dresden'' was advised that war was imminent and ordered to operate independently, raiding enemy commerce where possible.  She turned southward and made for the Brazilian and Argentinian coasts.  She had limited success as a merchant raider — largely due to a dearth of targets — and in September received orders to round Cape Horn and link up with the German East Asia Squadron under the command of ''Vizeadmiral'' Maximilian von Spee.  ''Dresden'' complied, rendezvousing with von Spee off Easter Island in October 1914.  ''Dresden'' saw action in two battles against the Royal Navy under von Spee’s command, emerging victorious at the Battle of Coronel in November, but her squadron fared worse during the Battle of the Falkland Islands the following month: ''Dresden'' was the only German ship to escape destruction.
 
She evaded the British fleet for the remainder of the local summer, continuing to raid enemy shipping while nearly a dozen Royal Navy units hunted for her.  She put in at an island off the Chilean coast for coaling and repairs in mid-March 1915, where ''Fregattenkapitän'' Fritz Lüdecke — low on coal and spare parts for his boilers — made the decision to intern his ship and crew in Chile for the remainder of hostilities.  Unfortunately for Lüdecke, ''Dresden'' was discovered by a force of British cruisers the following morning.  Whether she was sunk by enemy action or scuttled by her crew is a matter of some debate, but whatever occurred, 15 March 1915 marked the end of ''Dresden''’s participation in World War I.
 
Today, the remains of SMS ''Dresden'' lie in 70 meters of water near Robinson Crusoe Island, 400 miles west of Valparaiso, Chile.  In 2006, the ship’s bell was recovered by a team of Chilean and German divers.  The Republic of Chile restored it, and subsequently presented it to Germany in November 2008 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ship’s commissioning.  It is on display at the [https://www.mhmbw.de/starteng Museum of the German Armed Forces] in Dresden, Germany.
 
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File:Проект корабля типа «Дрезден».jpeg|Line-drawing of the ''Dresden'' class.
File:SMS Dresden 1909 LOC det 4a16116.jpg|''Dresden'' visiting New York City in October 1909.
File:SMS Dresden German Cruiser LOC 04281.jpg|''Dresden'', ''Victoria Louise'', and ''Hertha'' during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909.
File:Bundesarchiv DVM 10 Bild-23-61-30, Kleiner Kreuzer "SMS Dresden I".jpg|''Dresden'' at anchor, probably before the war.
File:SMS Dresden before scuttling.jpg|''Dresden'', flying a white flag in the moments prior to sinking, 15 March 1915.


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# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Dresden_(1907) SMS ''Dresden'' (1907) - Wikipedia]
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden-class_cruiser ''Dresden''-class cruiser - Wikipedia]


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Latest revision as of 03:32, 3 August 2026


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Dresden — Germany Tech Tree Tier II Cruiser.

After building small ships equipped with steam engines, Germany began producing warships featuring turbines. During World War I, SMS Dresden, the lead ship of the new class, saw action in the Battle of Coronel as part of von Spee's squadron and in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, where she was the only German warship to escape destruction. Dresden raided the South Atlantic and Pacific until she was intercepted by British cruisers. In the battle that followed, the ship was scuttled, and the crew escaped to be interned in Chile for the duration of the war.

Pros

  • Good top speed
  • High damage per minute
  • Long main battery firing range

Cons

  • High detectability
  • Low fire-starting capability
  • Poor shell ballistics


Ship Stats

Hull Information

Main Battery

AA Defense


Compatible Upgrades

 Slot 1 
 Main Armaments Modification 1
 Auxiliary Armaments Modification 1
 Damage Control Party Modification 1


Consumables


Ship Change Log

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