What you shoot with

Up to 8.8° of spread — at 400 units that is nearly forty of drift, so hitting takes either a short range or luck. One damage against armour is a quarter of a section, which means a monitor with armour 4 simply cannot be killed with it. Its value is elsewhere: three cheap classes carry it, and resupply returns it fastest.

Spread of 1.5-4.6°, half the deck gun's, and a reach of 1089 — the longest of any ballistic weapon. Three damage defeats every class but the monitor in two hits. Twelve rounds on a battleship is the longest sustained fire in the game after the railgun.

Lobs high and covers an area of 46 — the only cheap way to reach a ship behind smoke or another hull. The spread is wide, up to 11.5°, but the blast forgives it: a thirty-unit miss still connects. Two damage is exactly a frigate's armour.

A burst of four singles: four damage a shot, more than the main battery. But each round flies separately and is nearly useless against armour 3-4 — four quarters of a section. Take it against boats and submarines, not battleships.

Runs along the surface to the first thing it meets rather than arcing, so the only way to miss is to miss the line. Spread of 0.5-2.2° makes it the most accurate ordinary weapon. Four damage sinks a patrol boat outright and takes half a cruiser. The magazine is tiny — two on a destroyer, three on a submarine — and resupply is slow to return them.

A fan of four rockets with a 30-unit blast each: against a tight formation that is four hits from one shot, against a lone target usually one. Nine salvos on a cruiser. The closer the enemy parked their fleet, the better it pays.

Range does not apply: it strikes any point of the enemy water, including places no shell can physically reach. Three bombs at 2 damage with a 56-unit blast — six damage a sortie, more than anything else in the game. The price: two sorties a battle, and resupply never brings them back.

Spread of 0.4° — effectively a straight line, no leading required. It punches clean through both sides, catching everything on the way. Four damage across twelve rounds: 48 potential from a single ship, more than any other weapon in the game.

Corrects itself in flight at 55°/s, so it lands where a plain shell would miss: aim roughly and the missile finishes the job. Three damage for two fleet points. The carrier is fragile — armour 1 across two sections, and any hit is fatal.

The only answer to a submarine: damage doubles against a submerged target, from 2 to 4. It detonates on a 0.7-second fuse over a 50-unit area, so precision matters little. Its reach of 556 is the shortest of the ballistic weapons — you will have to close in.

A consumable rather than ship armament: one per battle, bought in the shop. It covers a 150-unit circle — a quarter of the water — for 2 damage, with 4 in the 45-unit core. The point is not one target but catching half a formation at once.

An unmanned boat runs the surface for up to nine seconds, turning onto its target at 72°/s. On the way it lifts the fog within 96 units — this is reconnaissance as much as its 3 damage. Three per battle, never replenished, so spending them blind is a waste.