Overall, this makes her a good long range gunnery platform but her performance doesn’t stop there. This is on top of the usual tricks of hiding within her own smoke screen and using terrain to block line of sight while shooting. This gives her the ability to shoot from cover, firing with impunity outside of the spotting range of the ship she’s bombarding. When firing her guns, the Gremyashchy appears to lose 3.6 to 3.8km worth of concealment, making her visible at 10.6km when equipped with Concealment Camouflage. At boosted ranges beyond maximum (through Captain Skills), this flight time only exaggerates further - something with which the Gremyashchy doesn’t have to contend. Though the American 127mm/38 Mk21 has longer overall range, the high arc of it’s trajectory makes long distance gunnery more challenging. Destroyer Name 1km 2km 3km 4km 5km 6km 7km 8km 9km 10km 11km 12km The trajectory for their shells is very flat by comparison to other destroyer caliber weapons without having the limited range of IJN class guns. The biggest strength of the 130mm guns isn’t their hitting power but their flight mechanics. Though frustrating, the limited traverse speed often feels little more than a nuisance compared to the strengths of both the gun and the platform upon which they’re mounted. It should never be surprising that two of your guns will usually be off target if you take any form of evasive action. This makes tracking a target while maneuvering difficult, especially at close range. At 36s for 180′, this the same speed as the Tirpitiz’s primary battery. The primary fault (and some would argue balancing factor) of these guns is that the traverse is beyond sluggish. In both pursuit and flight, this makes the Gremyashchy a very comfortable firing platform - at least so long as one maintains a steady course. Similarly, guns #3 and #4 face to the rear in superfiring positions, allowing both to track anything directly behind. Guns #1 & #2 face forward and with the superfiring arrangement, can both target directly ahead. The Gremyashchy is armed with four 130mm B-13 naval guns in a very forgiving arrangement. Though she shares some traits with her sister ships, including the namesake of her class, the Gnevny (also at tier 5), the Gremyashchy remains a unique and well loved destroyer that’s arguably the best of her tier. Yet with the introduction of the Soviet destroyer tech tree, the Gremyashchy has remained a curiousity. Is it any wonder she’s become a Beta-Tester’s favourite? The Gremyashchy has a lot of strengths and only one glaring weakness. As the game has matured, the Gremyashchy has emerged as the front runner of these three pre-order vessels as the best of the litter. I attribute this primarily to the meta which was still quite favourable to US Destroyers during the Closed Beta (her guns fired at a flatter trajectory and smoke screens were much more powerful) and a glowing review by the Mighty Jingles in regards to the Yubari. When the trio of pre-order ships were sold, I heard a lot more fuss being made over the Yubari and the Sims at the time.
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