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In terms of time to target the shells are also lackluster despite high MV, coming out behind the Leander.

Despite the RN characteristics of nice bounce angles and short fuses the Emerald's AP performance is terrible (wowsft):Įmerald as a T5 sees mostly relatively thinly armored cruisers with 76mm belts, belts her AP cannot penetrate at ranges above 10km if flat broadside, and even shorter even at slight angles. Emerald completely lacks HE shells and is thus entirely dependent on direct damage from her AP and opportunistic torpedo attacks. Given a cruiser role is to both chase destroyers and kite from larger ships she does very poorly.Īnother problem is the way her guns work. This means unless you show 50' of angle you operate with less than full firepower, while in a narrow central window you have only 2 guns able to bear. In firepower Emerald has a poor arrangement of guns, in particular with poor bow-on firepower (GM3D): In the amidships-aft section however she is terrifyingly vulnerable to IFHE equipped 120mm guns and bigger, and to 203mm guns as irrespective of angling HE hits in this section will produce citadels - doing both 3x the damage and being likely to knock out her engines and force use of a repair party. In sections where there's superstructure this is less of a problem as the superstructure absorbs HE impacts and at least prevents citadels.

A large citadel and 76mm belt offer poor protection, and despite a repair party her Achilles heel is rather silly:Ī large expanse of her citadel goes right up to the weather deck level, and is roofed with only 25mm of armor. In game she is deficient both in protection and in firepower. Her old features include single open gun mounts distributed down the hull, a lack of turrets and huge size for her firepower. Emerald is then pitted against ships which have far more modern features and are simply more modern including the Kirov class, lain down in 1935 - some 17 years later. Unfortunately that's a lot of the problem.Įmerald is one of the oldest T5 cruisers, lain down about 5 months before Omaha in 1918, to a development of an even older design. The most advanced British light cruiser among those designed during World War I.