Harugumo's biggest strength is her insane rate of fire.

Open water engagements should be planned and executed a manner that minimizes the number of enemy ships that can engage her in return.

Engagements of all enemies should be done from within the relative safety of smoke or from behind islands. Enemy destroyers will see her coming long before she spots them, and a competent enemy destroyer captain can easily avoid being spotted by Harugumo.Ĭaptains should play Harugumo in a similar fashion to that of a light cruiser stay outside of capture points early on, but stay within effective gun range to support the destroyers on the team who can capture. Her poor concealment, awful turning radius, and huge size make her incredibly easy to hit with torpedoes, and enemy ships far behind a capture point will have no difficulty landing shots on her. Despite the major drawbacks found when upgrading to Harugumo, most captains will find that play styles that worked well on the previous destroyers are still applicable, albeit with some modifications.įirst and foremost, Harugumo is not a capture-point contesting destroyer. Captains will also notice the significant loss in mobility - especially in regards to turning radius - as well as the far-worse concealment. She also gains a significant amount of health in comparison to that of her immediate predecessors: a whopping 25,600 base health.

The most notable differences when moving up to Harugumo are the addition of a fifth main battery turret and major performance losses in the areas of handling and concealment. Armed with ten 100 mm rifles and a single sextuplet torpedo launcher, she is a ship of absolutes she has third place of the highest base hit points of all Tier X destroyers, has an incredible rate of fire, and has the worst maneuverability (turning radius) plus base detection range (tied with Khabarovsk). Harugumo sits atop the IJN 'gunboat' branch of destroyers, encapsulating and building upon the design elements and game play of the ships preceding her namely the Tier VIII and IX ships, Akizuki and Kitakaze.

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