Ship:Sevastopol

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Sevastopol

Cruiser | U.S.S.R. | Tier X

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points62,600

Main Battery

380 mm/52 SK C/34 on a Drh LC/34 mount3 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire2.5 shots/min

Reload Time24 sec

Rotation Speed5 deg/sec

180 Degree Turn Time36 sec

Firing Range19.1 km

Maximum Dispersion164 m

HE Shell380 mm HE Model 1939

Maximum HE Damage5,350

Chance of Fire34 %

Initial HE Velocity820 m/s

HE Shell Weight800 kg

AP Shell380 mm AP Model 1939

Maximum AP Shell Damage11,300

Initial AP Shell Velocity820 m/s

AP Shell Weight800 kg

Secondary Armament #1

100 mm/70 on an SM-52 mount8 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range7.3 km

Rate of Fire15 shots/min

Reload Time4 sec

HE ShellHE-55

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,400

Initial HE Shell Velocity1000 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell6 %

AA Defense

57 mm AK-725 mount6 х 2 pcs.

100 mm/70 on an SM-52 mount8 х 2 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed33.5 knot

Turning Circle Radius980 m

Rudder Shift Time15.1 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range13.6 km

Air Detectability Range10 km

Battle Levels

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X

Special

Sevastopol — Soviet special premium Tier X cruiser.

In May 1940, the Naval Academy hosted tactical games that involved the Project 69 cruiser and battleships Scharnhorst and Dunkerque. The event showed that the replacement of 305 mm guns with German 380 mm guns significantly increased the cruiser's firepower. Later, an agreement was signed with the German company Krupp, which was supposed to deliver six turrets before March 1943. The turrets were to be mounted on cruisers Kronshtadt and Sevastopol, which were planned to be launched in 1942, but the outbreak of war canceled these plans.

Sevastopol was first released for sale on 10 August 2022, and is available in the Research Bureau for 58,000.

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 ()
380 mm/52 SK C/34 on a Drh LC/34 mount	2.5	36	164	5,350	34	11,300		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 ()
Sevastopol	62,600	15	360	3	8	6/8				0	0

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

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 150,000 hp	33.5		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

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

Player Opinion

Performance

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Tier X cruiser Sevastopol shares many traits with both Tier IX German cruiser Siegfried and real-life sister ship Kronshtadt. Planned as the second Kronshtadt-class cruiser using 380mm Bismarck-class guns purchased from the Germans, she inherits many of Kronshtadt’s strengths and weaknesses. Her consumable suite sets her apart, and most notably she inherits Siegfried’s cruiser dispersion, giving her the most accurate large caliber guns in the game.

Armament

Like Kronshtadt and Siegfried at Tier IX, Sevastopol is primarily about her guns. She carries six 380mm guns in three twin turrets, the same as found on Siegfried and Tier VIII battleship Bismarck. Along with Siegfried, she has the largest main battery guns on any cruiser in the game, and maintains Siegfried’s cruiser dispersion trait rather than the battlecruiser dispersion on many other large cruisers. Combined with their 25mm AP overmatch, she is a major threat to any broadside target and many cruisers won’t be able to angle against her shells provided her aim is true.

Her main battery range is high for a cruiser, similar to Alexander Nevsky and Henri IV, and slightly shorter than Moskva. However, her 24 second main battery reload is the longest in her tier, only two seconds faster than Bismarck and Siegfried. As a result, she has the lowest main battery DPM of any Tier X cruiser. With her low barrel count, she will struggle against destroyers and sharply angled targets that she can’t overmatch. Her turret traverse is also slow at 36 seconds, the same as Stalingrad and her German counterparts, and only marginally faster than Petropavlovsk. She has slightly improved firing angles to both the front and rear, allowing her to get all guns on target while still bouncing almost all return fire off her main belt.

Both her HE and AP shells are similar to those found on Siegfried and Bismarck, although Sevastopol deals slightly more HE damage but slightly less AP damage. She also has less shell drag, so her shells fly faster than her German gun cousins. Both shell types have the highest damage of any Tier X cruiser, and her HE shells also feature an excellent fire chance. She has the same improved AP pen angles and slightly shorter fuse time as Petropavlovsk, reducing her chances of overpenetrating a target or bouncing off slightly angled armor. Thanks to her improved ballistics, she has more AP penetration than her German 380mm counterparts, although Stalingrad still penetrates more thanks to her increased shell velocity.

Sevastopol's entire secondary battery consists of 8 twin 100mm mounts. With no improved stats and standard range, they don’t even pose a threat to enemy destroyers.

Consumables

If her main battery wasn’t enough to set Sevastopol apart from other cruisers, her consumable suite is also unusual. In addition to the standard Hydroacoustic Search or Defensive AA Fire consumable option that most cruisers get, Sevastopol also has a unique Heavy Repair Teams, an Engine Boost, and the Fast Damage Control Team consumable rather than the normal Damage Control Party.

Sevastopol's Fast Damage Control Team  is similar to those found on the Russian battleships and German battlecruisers. The significantly faster cooldown leaves her less vulnerable to full duration fires or floods after repairing, but the limited charges can run out quickly if players don’t use them selectively. And unlike the battleships, Sevastopol only has three charges by default. With her 60 second duration fires and higher damage per second floods like other large cruisers, choosing which fires and floods to stop can be critical.

Sevastopol's Heavy Repair Teams  is her most unique consumable. It heals more penetration damage than any other Repair Party in the game, and shares the same 50% citadel damage heal as the British Specialized Repair Teams  on Minotaur and Goliath. It also features a substantially longer active time, running more than two times longer at 60 seconds. However, it also has the longest cooldown time, more than a minute and a half longer than the standard consumable. When it’s active, Sevastopol can absorb and heal a substantial amount of damage, but while it’s on cooldown she can easily get focused down waiting for the next charge.

Her Engine Boost  consumable shares the same +20% boost to top speed as found on the French cruisers. Its cooldown time is faster at only 60 seconds, but the short 45 second action time limits its usefulness.

Maneuverability

Fitting her size, Sevastopol isn’t particularly agile. Both among large cruisers and cruisers in general at Tier X, her 33.5 knot top speed is average at best. With her Engine Boost consumable active, she can temporarily become one of the fastest cruisers in her tier at just over 40 knots, but its short duration limits her speed potential. Additionally, her rudder shift and turning circle are both among the worst in tier. Her turning circle is marginally better than those of Moskva and Stalingrad, comparable to Petropavlovsk’s, and her rudder shift is slower than all cruisers except Puerto Rico. Most notably, her rudder shift and turning circle are worse than Kronshtadt a tier lower, despite sharing a similar hull.

Unlike many other cruisers, Sevastopol can’t swing out to get guns on target and angle before the return fire arrives. Choosing the right angle to bounce shells before getting shot at is important. Her Engine Boost can help her get onto a flank quickly or run away from a strong push, but doesn’t provide the same dodging or relocation potential as on the French cruisers.

Survivability

Sevastopol has an impressive health pool for a Tier X cruiser, although it’s on the low end compared to other large cruisers. She also presents a large target, and her main battery threat will draw the attention of enemy ships. Her unique heal gives her a large potential health pool, but the long cooldown limits how much she’ll actually be able to heal back. Unlike Stalingrad and many other large cruisers, Sevastopol should avoid sustained fire whenever possible. Her respectable concealment compared to other large cruisers will help keep her alive, but among all Tier X cruisers or concealment is only average.

Like other large cruisers, fires burn for 60 seconds and floods deal twice as much damage per second. With her limited Fast Damage Control Team consumable, fires and floods pose a significant risk to her survival. As she lacks access to battleship survival skills like Fire Prevention and Basics of Survivability, signals and upgrades to reduce fire and flood damage are essential.

Although she carries battleship guns, her armor is still that of a cruiser. Her bow and stern are 25mm thick, and her deck and upper belt are only 30mm. She lacks the thicker deck and 50mm icebreaker plates found on other Russian heavy cruisers, so battleship AP and cruiser HE pose a much greater threat. She carries a thick main belt that extends well past her turrets, but her citadel also extends just as far. Unlike Moskva and Stalingrad, Sevastopol share’s Kronshtadt’s waterline citadel and spaced armor. Broadside hits will still result in citadel hits, but some shells can bounce or detonate early when sufficiently angled.

Anti-aircraft

Unlike the other Russian cruisers, Sevastopol's AA defenses are underwhelming. Most notably, she lacks the improved range typical of Tier X Russian cruisers, only reaching 5.8km on her long range mounts. Her mid range damage is slightly above average, but her long range defenses provide little protection, and she has no short range defenses. Her flak is also among the worst in her tier. She produces less flak than many other cruisers, and each explosion deals little damage.

Additionally, she has few AA mounts for her size. With only 14 mounts, losing more than a couple will noticeably reduce her defenses. Sustained HE fire will quickly destroy her mid range mounts, leaving her nearly defenseless against enemy planes.

Sevastopol can swap her Hydroacoustic Search for the Defensive AA Fire consumable to increase her continuous AA and flak damage, but it will still offer little improvement. And with her already lackluster AA defenses and poor agility, the extra warning for incoming torpedoes will often be more useful.

Battle performance

Like Siegfried, Sevastopol is a cruiser killer that wants to be on a flank. Her massive guns and improved AP penetration potential allow her to punish broadsides and force a crossfire, but her damage potential drops as soon as her targets start to angle if she can’t overmatch them. She lacks the utility and durability of her Russian heavy cruiser counterparts, limiting her usefulness outside of pure damage dealing. Her consumable suite is unique and allows some interesting gameplay when she can take advantage of it, but they don’t always synergize too well with her hull.

In most situations, Sevastopol relies on enemy ships cooperating to be effective. And when they don’t cooperate, there’s very little she can do for her team. She has the potential to choose her fights and contribute a lot to her team’s flank, but requires a thorough understanding of the game and sometimes a healthy amount of luck to reach her true potential.

Pros:

• Large health pool
• Thick main armor belt, with an upper belt capable of bouncing up to 429mm AP shells.
• Very large gun caliber for a cruiser
• Improved AP pen angles and less fuse time, similar to Petropavlovsk
• Cruiser dispersion.
• Very high AP penetration among cruisers, second only to Stalingrad.
• Good concealment for her size
• Uses the Fast Damage Control Team with a shorter cooldown
• Best survivability among cruisers thanks to the Heavy Repair Teams that heal 75% penetration and 50% citadel damage.
• Has access to an improved version of Engine Boost, which gives more speed than the standard one and recharges faster.
• Can mount DFAA

Cons:

• 60-second fire duration
• Large and vulnerable citadel
• Prone to receive heavy damage quickly when confronted by +430mm armed battleships.
• Slow main battery reload
• Worst AP and HE DPM among TX cruisers
• Slow turret traverse
• AA is not impressive, especially when compared to Petropavlovsk or Moskva.
• Slow rudder shift with a large turning circle radius
• Does not have access to the Surveillance Radar consumable
• Limited charges of her Fast Damage Control Team
• Very long Heavy Repair Teams cooldown
• Short Engine Boost duration

Research

As a premium ship, Sevastopol has no module upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades are:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Engine Room Protection or Hydroacoustic Search Modification 1
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Propulsion Modification 1 or Damage Control System Modification 2
• Slot 5: Concealment System Modification 1 
• Slot 6: Main Battery Modification 3

Commander Skills

Unique commander Nikolay Kuznetsov is a good fit for Sevastopol, thanks to his Emergency Reserve and Will for Victory talents.

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack				Defense
1	Grease the Gears +15% main battery traverse speed. ★★★	Swift Fish +5% torpedo speed.	Consumable Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party   Repair Party .	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning of a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5km. ★	Last Stand The ship remains able to move and maneuver - slowly - while the engine or steering gears are incapacitated.
2	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire. +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance fired at submarines. ★	Fill the Tubes -10% torpedo tubes reload time.	Consumables Enhancements +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search, Surveillance Radar, Smoke Generator, & Engine Boost. ★★	Eye in the Sky Spotting Aircraft: • +2 charges • -50% cooldown time.	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★★	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..
3	Heavy HE and SAP Shells +10% HE and SAP shell damage. +15% ship detectability guns 149mm and up.	Pack a Punch +15% torpedo damage. +20% secondary battery range..	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Heavy AP Shells +5% damage for AP shells 190mm and larger. ★★	Superintendent +1 charge to all consumables. ★★★	Survivability Expert +450 HP per ship tier. ★
4	Top Grade Gunner -10% reload time of secondary batteries If enemy ship is spotted within detectability range, -8% reload time of main battery. ★★	Outnumbered If there are fewer allies than visible enemies within the ship's base main caliber firing range: +8% ship speed -10% main battery dispersion.	Radio Location Shows the direction to the nearest enemy ship. The enemy is alerted that a bearing has been taken..	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells Base fire chance reduced by half.	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	AAA & ASW Expert +25% continuous AA and flak damage. +15% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −50% ship consumables reload time..
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Sevastopol equips the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Fast Damage Control Team  – 3 charges
• Slot 2: Defensive AA Fire  – 4 charges or Hydroacoustic Search  – 3 charges
• Slot 3: Heavy Repair Teams  – 3 charges
• Slot 4: Engine Boost  – 4 charges

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Sevastopol 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

Historical Info

Sevastopol, 1940 (designed)

Construction

Builder: Shipyard No. 200, 61 Communards (Nikolayev)

Laid down: 30 November 1939

Launched: N/A

Commissioned: N/A

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Specifications

39,660 tons displacement, standard

250.5m length

31.6m beam

9.7m draft (full load)

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Machinery

12 water-tube boilers, 3 steam turbines

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Performance

32 knots at 210,000 shaft horsepower

8,300 nm range at 14.5 knots

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Armor

Main belt: 230mm (waterline belt)

Torpedo bulkhead: ?mm

Decks: 90mm main, 30mm lower deck

Turrets: 305mm

Conning tower: 330mm

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Armament

Main

9 (3x3) 380mm rifles

Secondary

8 (4x2) 152mm dual purpose rifles

Anti-Aircraft

8 (4x2) 100mm dual-purpose guns

12 (6x2) 37mm AA guns

Torpedoes

N/A

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Aircraft

Two (2) Beriev KOR-2 seaplanes, one catapult

Russian cruiser Kronshtadt under construction, as viewed during a Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance flight on 1 June 1942.

The Kronshtadt-class battlecruisers (Project 69) started as a mid-1930s proposal for a large cruiser capable of destroying 10,000 long-ton cruisers built under the Washington Naval Treaty (which the Soviets were not a signatory to). Early designs were submitted by the end of 1935 but were all rejected, as was the next design for a 22,637 long-ton, 254mm-armed cruiser (eventually designated Project 22). After signing the Anglo-Soviet Quantitative Act of 1937 which bound them to the terms of the Second London Naval Treaty, the idea was eventually shelved. Other designs and plans were considered through early 1938 until the program was canceled after deciding the final design was too weak compared to foreign ships. However, the Soviet Navy still felt a need for a fast ship capable of fighting enemy cruisers, and the original concept was revived as Project 69.

After various redesigns, the State Defense Committee ended up with a 30,510 long-ton, 305mm armed cruiser that was submitted to the State Defense Council and approved in January 1939. The initial sketches were approved in mid July 1939, but detailed designs were not approved until 12 April 1940, after the first two hulls were laid down. By February 1940, the 305mm guns and turrets were already behind schedule, and Joseph Stalin attempted to negotiate with the German representatives in Moscow to purchase and use triple 283mm turrets (which were out of production) instead of the triple 305mm turrets as planned. When he was told they were no longer in production but new ones could be built, he asked if twin 380mm turrets could be used instead. A preliminary agreement was made to purchase twelve guns and six turrets that had initially been designed to rearm the Scharnhorst-class battleships, and finalized in November 1940 after it was determined to be a possible substitution. Deliveries were scheduled between October 1941 and March 1943. The required changes to the Project 69 design added an additional 984 long-tons to the ship, and was completed in mid October 1940 as Project 69-I (I standing for "Importnyi" or "Imported"). The final design was supposed to be completed by 15 October 1941, but was rendered pointless when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union in June of that year.

The two initial ships (Kronshtadt and Sevastopol) were supposed to be laid down in September 1939 following the Project 69-I design, but construction was delayed until November to allow shipyard improvements to be completed as the Soviet shipbuilding industry proved to be incapable of building both cruisers at the same time as the four Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships. Sevastopol was laid down on 5 November 1939, and was estimated at 11.6% complete at the start of the invasion. When the German forces occupied Nikolayev in late 1941, they used some of her material for defensive positions. Before they evacuated the city, they damaged her slip and hull with explosives, rendering the ship a total loss. She was ordered scrapped on 24 March 1947, and dismantling was completed in 1948.

Historical Gallery

References

Ship Change Log

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.10.11.

Testing Changes

• DevBlog 243:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• DevBlog 257:
  • Main battery reload time decreased from 26 to 25 s.
  • Charges of Damage Control Party consumable increased from 3 to 4.
  • Charges of Repair Party consumable decreased from 6 to 4.
  • Repair Party consumable cooldown time decreased from 80 to 70 s.
  • Charges of Engine Boost consumable decreased from 6 to 4.
• DevBlog 264:
  • Removed the Engine Boost consumable.
  • Fast Damage Control Team consumable replaced by Damage Control Party consumable.
  • Repair Party consumable parameters changed:
    • Cooldown time increased from 70 to 200 s.
    • Action time increased from 60 to 90 s.
    • Charges decreased from 4 to 3.
    • Restoration of hit points per second increased from 187 to 313 (from 0.3% to 0.5%).
    • Restoration of citadel damage increased from 10% to 33%.
    • Restoration of casemate damage increased from 50% to 75%.
• DevBlog 269:
  • Main battery dispersion formula improved to that of a standard heavy cruiser.
  • Repair Party consumable's restoration of citadel damage increased from 33% to 50%.
• DevBlog 275:
  • Repair Party consumable cooldown time decreased from 200 to 180 s.
  • Added the Engine Boost consumable.
  • Damage Control Party consumable replaced with Fast Damage Control Team consumable.
• Update 0.11.2:
  • Minor fixes to geometry and textures of the ship.

• Update 0.11.7:
  • Added to the Research Bureau section of the Armory for 58,000 Research Points.
• Update 0.11.8:
  • Renamed the Repair Party consumable to Heavy Repair Teams, and updated the consumable description.
• Update 13.1:
  • Main battery reload time reduced from 25 to 24 s.
  • Changed the parameters of the Heavy Repair Teams consumable:
    • Action time reduced from 90 to 60 s.
    • Cooldown time reduced from 180 to 120 s.
    • Number of charges increased from 3 to 4.

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