

Unfortunately, this is usually for the worse. Wargaming loves to change up the AA values on Premium Ships to make them stand out. AA DefenseĪlright, this has got to be where there’s going to be some form of a difference.

Verdict: It’s like I’m seeing twins at this stage… but the twin on the left has been chowing down on Big Macs. The Prinz Eugen has the exact same load out.

The Admiral Hipper has four triple launchers - two on each side. They’re nice fish with a 64 knot top speed, a 6.0km range and a warhead that does 13,700 damage when they strike. These are the same torpedoes found on all German cruisers, from the Konigsberg on up. I happen to know the G7aT1 torpedoes off by heart (what with being a U-Boat enthusiast when I was little). Well, for variety’s sake, it’s not looking good. Except, y’know, the fatness we talked about before. It’s a clone of the Admiral Hipper so far. This is a nice little secondary compliment but it’s not going to dissuade anyone from getting in too close. I’ll list the Admiral Hipper’s guns below. We can safely assume they’ll be very similar there. We can only guess here, but looking at the good ol’ Wikipedia entry on the Prinz Eugen, she had the same dual 105mm gun mounts as the lead of her class. Now, we can’t look at the secondary gun compliment because it wasn’t from the information pulled from the API data. Their AP can give any ship they slap a big ol’ headache. Dull as this may be, it’s a rather good thing. So, the main battery is the same as Admiral Hipper’s. To be honest, if there wasn’t that little 200m blip in their reach, I would have been second guessing myself that this was a different ship. Well, nothing much different there except for the range. Maximum Dispersion: 153m (same over same distance).Main Battery: 4×2 203mm A-B-X-Y turret arrangement (same).Let’s compare the Prinz Eugen’s stats to the Admiral Hipper’s. I’m expecting to see the reason for her chubbiness in her armaments and see a penalty in her agility as a result. Both of their armour values appear identical. It’s not uncommon for us to see Premium Ships with a little more worth in their girth, so there’s nothing too surprising there. This is 1,200hp more than the Admiral Hipper.
