You try to set up ambushes, like popping up behind an island a few km away from a broadside cruiser with your AP preloaded and ready to do multiple citadels. The big difference in playstyle is that you try to get more situations where you can use AP, not that you can use AP more by default. PE gets to tank 380mm shells, gets a heal and superior AP-shells, so the cost is it's HE. That itself doesn't offset the low fire chance. So it can pen the deck armor of a lot more BBs even when uptiered, can pen ice breakers or Khabarovsk side armor. It gets the 1/4 penetration for HE, being able to pen 50mm of armor, where other CAs can only pen 32mm. But it does do damage, where others wouldn't. It deals less damage and has lower fire chance than most of the firestarters. You don't want to alert your victim by shooting AP like a RN-CL. The AP is the nasty surprise for a target turning broadside or being ambushed by you. A ship shooting mostly AP will likely end up doing less citadel hits than a ship that seems to mostly shoot HE and invites enemies to make mistakes. Shooting too much AP has two negative effects: First, you get lots of bounces and shatters, since the situation was not suited for AP, and second, opponents will be more aware of the threat and pay more attention to not give broadside to you. The difference is simply that you do more damage in the lucky event that you can use AP, and that you do less damage in the rather usual situation that your target is angled and you need to use HE. One should select ammo type pretty much as one would on any other heavy cruiser. You do a lot of damage with AP and that is very tempting, but bounces and shatters are still bounces and shatters. I struggled a bit with Prinz Eugen at first, specifically because of this AP-label that Prinz Eugen got. I normally switch but a recent game where I took over 30k off a US cruiser and WG’s own Wiki description of Eugen led me to asking this question.Ĭruisers aren’t my main (DD’s and BB’s are). Very simple question AP all the time, HE all the time or the usual (switch between the 2 as the need/situation arises). Apologies if this had been asked before but I’m hoping to get another’s perspective on my favourite cruiser yep Eugen.
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