Scharnhorst '43 is a variant of Scharnhorst with artillery tweaks, secondary buff, survivability buffs, concealment nerfs, and different consumables.
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Scharnhorst '43 is a Tier VII German fire-starter battleship: her improved-penetration HE farms fires and chips angled targets her AP cannot crack, so the kit is sustained HE pressure from range rather than bow-in trading. HE pen sits at the 1/4 caliber ratio instead of the standard 1/6, so HE spam is a real damage option here - pens roughly 1.5x more armor than a same-caliber peer's HE round. Standout traits: best turret traverse rate in T7 BBs (7.2) and best AP shell velocity in T7 BBs (890).
Anchor a flank at 14-17 km with bow toward the closest threat, then use the speed advantage at 30 kn to rotate to the cap that needs a second battleship rather than the one your team already has. Mobility means you can pick which fight you are in; do not waste it by holding center the whole match.
The mobility advantage is about picking which cap fight you arrive at, not about leading the brawl line; a fast BB that overextends loses HP that the kit cannot trade back.
HE pen at the 1/4 caliber ratio instead of the standard 1/6. HE-spam is a real damage option here, not just a fire-starter; pens roughly 1.5x more armor than a same-caliber peer's HE, shared by 15/48 T7 BBs.
+8% speed, 180 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact, uncommon in T7 BBs.
38.0 mm best HE pen across secondary families, top decile of T7 BBs. Pens hull plates peers' secondaries shatter on.
1600.0 max HE alpha per secondary shell, bottom decile of T7 BBs. Per-shell damage runs below peers'.
Scharnhorst '43 is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Containers. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
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Where Scharnhorst '43 sits among Tier VII BBs (48 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
Not standouts for Scharnhorst '43 -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 80 s reload · 15 s active
Repair Party3 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 9,100 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge) 
Catapult Fighter3 charges · 80 s reload · 90 s active · 5 km patrol radius 
Secondary Battery Booster3 charges · 160 s reload · 30 s active · +100% grouping · -50% dispersion
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 180 s active · +8% speed bonusAll values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: $\sigma_H = \left(\dfrac{R}{30}\cdot\dfrac{\text{idealRadius}-\text{minRadius}}{\text{idealDistance}} + \text{minRadius}\right)\cdot 30$ $= \left(\dfrac{17000}{30}\cdot\dfrac{12-2.2}{1000} + 2.2\right)\cdot 30 = 232.6\,\text{m}$How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $\sigma_V = \sigma_H \cdot \text{radiusOnMax}$ $= 232.6 \cdot 0.6 = 139.6\,\text{m}$How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: $\sigma_{H,50} = \sigma_H \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 232.6 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 74.3\,\text{m}$50%-hit vertical radius: $\sigma_{V,50} = \sigma_V \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 139.6 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 44.6\,\text{m}$Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{-1.07} \cdot v_0^{1.38}$ $= 10^{-7}\cdot 2312 \cdot 330^{0.69} \cdot 0.283^{-1.07} \cdot 890^{1.38} = 573.5\,\text{mm}$. Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (21.2 km), where the shell has slowed to 480 m/s: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot 2312 \cdot 330^{0.69} \cdot 0.283^{-1.07} \cdot 480^{1.38} = 244.6\,\text{mm}$.71 mm ≈ 283 mm caliber / 4 (improved HE penetration: German BBs, Yamato-class, and a handful of others).This ship's HE shells use a 1/4 (~0.25) caliber-to-pen ratio instead of the standard 1/6 (~0.167) - 0.251 in this case. Lets HE pen ~70mm armor instead of ~47mm. Hits every German cruiser (150mm CL, 203mm CA) and BB (350mm+), British heavy cruisers / Lion / Nelson, a handful of other premiums.floor(283 mm caliber / 14.3) = 19 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.All 9 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 7.2 deg/s traverse speed = 25 s.3,360 HE damage x 9 broadside guns = 30,240.7,980 AP damage x 9 broadside guns = 71,820.30,240 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 22 s base reload = 82,473.71,820 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 22 s base reload = 195,873.30,240 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 19.8 s installed reload (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10%) = 91,636.71,820 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 19.8 s installed reload (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10%) = 217,636.9 broadside guns x 60 / 22 s base reload = 24.5.9 broadside guns x 60 / 19.8 s installed Artillery reload = 27.3.24.5 shells/min x 20% fire chance = 4.91.27.3 shells/min x 20% fire chance = 5.45.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).range / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).2 launchers x 3 tubes.tube count / 2 (symmetric port/starboard launcher layout; common on cruisers and battleships with deck torpedoes).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 13,333 = 79,998.One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 3 x 13,333 = 39,999.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (12×3.5×0.75) + (40×3.5×0.7) + (45×3.5×0.75) = 248. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Max dispersion = range (km) × 43.5 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.7 km × 43.5 + 30 = 334.5 m.Sum across all secondary families of (per-side barrels × 60 / reload_s × alpha), where per-side barrels = mounts × barrels-per-mount / 2 (the guns that bear on one broadside target). Per-family: 7×2 105 mm (7/side) × 60/3.12 × 1200 = 161,538 + 4×2 150 mm (4/side) × 60/6.5 × 1600 = 59,077 + 4×1 150 mm (2/side) × 60/6.5 × 1600 = 29,538. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 1600 from the 150 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 12% from the 150 mm family.Maximum HE armor penetration across secondary HE families (caliber × 1/6 for most nations; 1/4 for German/UK BBs). Shells whose pen falls under a plate's armor thickness shatter for 0 hull damage though fire chance still applies. Best on this ship: 38 mm from the 150 mm family.Every custom exterior Scharnhorst '43 can equip, from in-game data.
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