The damage per minute for the AP and HE shells of the Z-44 is on the lower side for the tier due to the 4.2 second base reload and only having 5 barrels available to her. The armor piercing shells by contrast have some of the highest alpha damage per shell, at 3000 damage, when compared to other Tier IX destroyers but have below average penetration. Her HE shells have 1/4th pen on their guns, allowing them to pen 32mm of plating by default, however they have below average alpha damage per shell, at 1500 damage, when compared to the other Tier IX destroyers.

Z-44 retains the unique features of the German destroyer main battery. Z-44 retains the same 128mm/45 SK C/34 guns that are found on the Tier VII Leberecht Maass with shell ballistics that match other German destroyers using the 128mm gun. While she doesn’t have the jack of all trade’s utility of Z-46 or the significant main battery of Felix Schultz she has the distinction of being one of the few German destroyers with torpedoes as her primary armament. Z-44 represents a deviation from either of the tech tree lines of German destroyers.

The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's 'Actual AA DPS'.

World of warships z-39 review