Ship:Shikishima

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Shikishima

Battleship | Japan | Tier X

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points97,200

Main Battery

510 mm/45 Type 98 in a twin-gun turret3 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire2.2 shots/min

Reload Time27 sec

Rotation Speed3 deg/sec

180 Degree Turn Time60 sec

Firing Range26.6 km

Maximum Dispersion249 m

HE Shell510 mm HE Type 98

Maximum HE Damage8,100

Chance of Fire40 %

Initial HE Velocity765 m/s

HE Shell Weight2620 kg

AP Shell510 mm AP Type 98

Maximum AP Shell Damage19,400

Initial AP Shell Velocity765 m/s

AP Shell Weight2620 kg

Secondary Armament #1

155 mm/60 3rd Year Type in a triple-gun turret2 х 3 pcs.

Firing Range7.7 km

Rate of Fire5 shots/min

Reload Time12 sec

HE Shell155 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,600

Initial HE Shell Velocity925 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell10 %

Secondary Armament #2

100 mm/65 Type 98 on a Model A mount10 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range7.7 km

Rate of Fire20 shots/min

Reload Time3 sec

HE Shell100 mm HE Type 98

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,700

Initial HE Shell Velocity1000 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell6 %

AA Defense

25 mm/60 Type 96 on a triple mount16 х 3 pcs.

40 mm/60 Type 5 on a twin mount24 х 2 pcs.

100 mm/65 Type 98 on a Model A mount10 х 2 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed27 knot

Turning Circle Radius900 m

Rudder Shift Time18.7 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range17.5 km

Air Detectability Range10 km

Battle Levels

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X

Special

Shikishima — Japanese special premium Tier X battleship.

The plans for the Yamato-class battleships included the construction of eight ships before 1950. At the beginning of 1941, the program was adjusted: Based on intelligence data on the scale of construction of capital ships in the U.S., the leadership of the Japanese Navy decided to increase the number of battleships under construction. One of the ships was supposed to be built according to the design of the Yamato class, and all subsequent ones—according to an improved design with 510 mm main battery artillery. A six-gun variant with three main battery turrets had a standard displacement of 65,700 tons.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chances of HE shells causing a fire on target (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
510 mm/45 Type 98 in a twin-gun turret	2.2	60	249	8,100	40	19,400		0	0

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Shikishima	97,200	19	650	3	2/10	16/24/10				0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Type10 mod. 1		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 158,000 hp	27		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5
Slot 6

Player Opinion

Performance

Warning: The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.
Refer to the in-game Port screens for more useful data.

Shikishima is a Japanese Tier X special Battleship armed with six 510mm guns, the largest in the game. She features similar characteristics to Yamato and fills a classic sniper battleship role. She is available for purchase for 32,000 steel.

Armament:

Shikishima features six 510mm/45 Type 58 guns housed in 3 twin turrets. These guns have a high range of 26.6km which is further increased by the Spotter Plane consumable.

While her guns are massive at 510mm, they do not provide any meaningful overmatch advantage in comparison to Yamato’s 460mm guns. The AP shells overmatch 35mm plating and feature high alpha damage as well as high penetration. Her HE shells feature a 40% fire chance and 85mm penetration. Shikishima’s large caliber guns allow her to overmatch and deal damage to every ship in her matchmaking spread as long as aiming and dispersion allow.

Her guns are accurate, featuring better accuracy than a Yamato with the Main Battery Director System. However, due to having only 6 guns, her accuracy can be frustrating due to the low amount of shells per salvo. This can be offset by equipping Main Battery Modification 3 bringing the reload down to 23.7 seconds

The turrets on Shikishima are very slow, with a 180 degree turn time of 57.5 seconds. Careful positioning and map awareness are necessary to ensure all guns remain in the fight.

Survivabillity:

Shikishima’s hull features a similar armor scheme to her predecessor Yamato. Her concealment of 14.1km is standard amongst Tier X battleships. Her hull has a high health pool of 97,200 and retains a 55% Torpedo damage reduction. Her overall armor scheme is good, with 57mm deck plating and 32mm bow and stern armor. However, her citadel is very large and retains the ‘cheek’ plating weakness. At closer ranges, high caliber AP shells will penetrate and citadel Shikishima through the cheek of her bow armor.

As a result of her armor layout, Shikishima captains should play her at medium to long ranges.

Secondary Armament:

Shikishima features a secondary armament which consists of twenty 100 mm/65 type 98 Dual Purpose guns. They are the same guns found on Harugumo and have 30mm HE penetration, a fast rate of fire of 3 seconds, and are dual purpose guns that contribute to her AA DPS. A secondary build is not recommended on Shikishima due to weakness of her armor at close ranges and the lack of increased range/accuracy on the secondary guns.

Maneuverability:

Shikishima is a slow battleship, with a top speed of 27 knots. Her rudder shift time and turning circle radius is decent at 18.7s and 900m respectively. Early positioning is vital due to her slow speed preventing quick relocation.

Anti-Aircraft:

Shikishima has a high long/medium AA DPS (234 and 437 respectively) for a battleship. This is due to the dual purpose 100mm guns she possesses. This is not enough to stop an aircraft carrier from striking so grouping with allied ships to overlap Anti-Aircraft aura is recommended in games with carriers.

Battle Performance:

Shikishima is a ship that Yamato players will find familiar. The core gameplay of long range artillery support remains the same even with the different quirks of 510mm guns.

Shikishima plays much like the classic sniper battleship, positioning around +15km away from cap circles and providing crossfire onto enemy battleships and cruisers. Because of her large guns that feature 35mm overmatch, players should mainly fire AP at cruisers and capital ships. While her secondaries feature improved penetration and fast fire rate, her poor close range armor scheme and slow hull speed means she is not a brawler.

Shikishima is essentially a sidegrade to Yamato. While Yamato delivers accurate 9 shell salvos that feature 32mm overmatch, Shikishima does that with less shells and faster reload.

Pros:

• High HP pool
• Largest guns in the game with high penetration, alpha damage, and overmatch
• Fast reload
• Decent AA DPS

Cons:

• Large target
• Large Citadel with cheek weakness
• Low salvo weight
• Slow turret traverse

Research

As a special ship, Shikishima doesn't have any upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Shikishima are as follows:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Damage Control System Modification 1 
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Damage Control System Modification 2
• Slot 5: Concealment System Modification 1 
• Slot 6: Main Battery Modification 3

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense
1	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★★	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance when firing at submarines.	Consumable Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party . ★	Emergency Repair Specialist -3% cooldown time of Damage Control Party  and Repair Party . ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns. ★
2	Grease the Gears +20% main turret traverse speed. ★★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells. Base fire chance reduced by half.	Brisk So long as the ship remains undetected: +10% ship speed. ★	Vigilance +25% detection range of enemy torpedoes +7% damage reduction of Torpedo Protection System. . ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	AAA & ASW Expert +15% continuous AAA and flak damage . +10% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −40% ship consumables reload time..
3	Super-Heavy AP Shells +7.5% AP shell damage −10% fire and flood damage received +25% fire and flood duration.	Long-Range Secondary Battery Shells +20% secondary battery firing range.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Basics of Survivability -15% repair, fire, and flooding duration. ★★★	Improved Repair Party Readiness −0.8% reload time of Repair Party each time your ship receives potential damage equal to 100% of the ship's base HP. After receiving 2M HP potential damage: +1 charge of Repair Party ..	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
4	Furious 1st fire / flood   −10% Main battery reload time 2nd etc. (up to 5), each   −5% Main battery reload time	Manual Secondary Battery Aiming −10% secondary battery reload time. −10% secondary battery dispersion. When firing at a manually selected target: dispersion gradually improves from -25% to -50%.	Close Quarters Combat -10% reload time of main battery if an enemy ship is spotted within secondary range.	Emergency Repair Expert Damage Control Party  and Repair Party : +1 charge (each). +10% action time . ★★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	Fire Prevention Expert -10% risk of fire. Three fires maximum. ★★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Shikishima can equip the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Repair Party  - 4 charges
• Slot 3: Spotting Aircraft  - 4 charges or Catapult Fighter  - 3 charges

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Shikishima comes with Default permanent camouflage and a set of permanent combat bonuses.

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Charlie Kilo +5% ship HP; +2.5% squadron HP.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration.	India Yankee -20% to fire duration.	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy.	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding.	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire.
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time.	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed.	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables.	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used.
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

Gallery

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  A Shikishima listing dangerously to port.
• 
  Shiki goes boom.

Historical Info

Shikishima, 19??

Construction

Builder:

Laid down:

Launched:

Commissioned:

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Specifications

? tons displacement, standard

?m length

?m beam

?m draft (mean)

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Machinery

12 boilers, 3 turbines [e.g.]

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Performance

? knots at ? shaft horsepower

?nm range at ? knots

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Armor

Main belt: ?mm

Torpedo bulkhead: ?mm

Decks: ?mm main, ?mm upper deck

Turrets: ?mm

Conning tower: ?mm

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Armament

Main

? (?x?) ?mm rifles

Secondary

? (?x?) ?mm dual purpose? rifles

Anti-Aircraft

? (?x?) ?mm guns

Torpedoes

? (?x?) ?mm torpedo tubes

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Aircraft

Three (3) ? float planes, one catapult

Historical Inaccuracies

• Design A-150 was not a repeat of Yamato’s hull with larger 510mm guns. No sketches of the design survive and it's likely that the hull would've been broadly similar to Yamato if the smallest 6-gun proposal (which Shikishima represents) had been built, but one known difference is that the belt was intended to be 457mm thick rather than 410mm as on Yamato.

Historical Gallery

References

1. Design A-150 battleship - Wikipedia

Ship Change Log

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.9.1 under the name Yashima.

Testing Changes

• Jan 14, 2020:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• Feb 7, 2020:
  • Secondary battery firing range decreased from 7 to 6 km.
• Feb 21, 2020:
  • Ship renamed to Shikishima. The old name was too similar to that of another Japanese Tier X ship, the Yoshino. The new name, like the old one, was used for a battleship of the early 20th century.
• Apr 3, 2020:
  • Main battery reload time decreased from 35 to 27 s.
  • HE and AP shells' initial velocity increased from 720 to 765 m/s.
  • AP shell maximum damage decreased from 19,400 to 17,000.
  • Shell ballistics changed. Accuracy settings for the main caliber guns are now similar to those of the Japanese Tier X battleship Yamato, and the shell trajectory became flatter.
• DevBlog 8:
  • AP shell maximum damage increased from 17,000 to 19,400.
• DevBlog 23:
  • Secondary battery firing range increased from 6.0 to 7.7 km.

• Update 0.9.5:
  • Available for purchase in the Armory for 32,000 Steel.
• Update 0.9.11:
  • Fixed geometry and textures of the ship.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The audible range of main battery firing was increased.
• Update 0.10.6:
  • Fighters, as well as spotting aircraft, now launch from the catapults a bit faster.
• Update 12.9:
  • Fixed camera issues when viewing the ship.

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