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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: All three ships were named after famous Italians, incluing UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: All three ships were named after famous Italians, incluing UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar namely UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, a major figure in Italian unification.
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Tier VI Italian Battleship. The second series of ''Conte di Cavour'' class, class was built in 1912-1916, was chosen to be 1912-1916. In 1930s both series of the class were heavily modernised modernised, with the second series in 1933-1937.particular receiving more extensive modifications that their slightly older sisters. The modifications included new, higher-caliber main guns, enlarged bow and completely new set of secondary armament, that made the ships look closer to newer ships. Both ships of the subclass survived the war, and served in Italian Navy until 1956.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Like the first series, they were named after famous Italians, namely Andrea Doria, a Genoese statesman, and Gaius Duilius, a Roman admiral.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Like the first series, they were named after famous Italians, namely Andrea Doria, a Genoese statesman, and Gaius Duilius, a Roman admiral.
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, the discoverer of Americas.
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Tier III Italian Cruiser. ''Taranto'', originally named ''Strassburg'', was a German ''Magdeburg''-class cruiser. She was given to Italy as reparations in 1920. She carried out several minor missions in WWII, but was scuttled the day after the Italian Armistice to prevent her capture by the Germans.
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Tier III Italian Cruiser. ''Taranto'', originally named ''Strassburg'', was a German ''Magdeburg''-class cruiser. She was given to Italy as reparations in 1920. She carried out several minor missions in WWII, but was scuttled the day after the Italian Armistice armistice to prevent her capture by the Germans.
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Tier IV Italian BattleshipBattleship. The first dreadnought battleship of the Italian Navy, she was built in 1909-1912. She served in WWI, but hasn't seen any major action. In 1928 she was scrapped in order to adhere to the Washington Naval Treaty.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Dante Alighieri, the author of ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Dante Alighieri, the author of ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
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Tier V Italian BattleshipBattleship. ''Conte di Cavour'' was the lead ship of her class, built for the Italian Navy in 1910-1914. One of three ships was lost during WWI to austrian sabotage, while remaining two served throughout WWII. One of them was captured by the Germans after the Italian armistice, and was later sunk by allied aviation, while the other was given to USSR as reparations, where she was renamed to ''Novorossiysk'', and lost in a mysterious explosion in 1955.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: All three ships were named after famous Italians, incluing UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: All three ships were named after famous Italians, incluing UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
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Tier VI Italian BattleshipBattleship. The second series of ''Conte di Cavour'' class, built in 1912-1916, was chosen to be heavily modernised in 1933-1937.
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Tier VII Italian BattleshipBattleship. The last series of Italian dreadnoughts, ships of the class were laid down in 1914-1915, but never finished due to financial problems and obsolescence of the design.
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Tier V Italian Cruiser. The third series of the ''Condottieri'' class, two ''Raimondo Montecuccoli''-class cruisers were built in 1931-1935. The second ship of the class, ''Muzio Attendolo'', was heavily damaged and later destroyed during repairs, while ''Raimondo Montecuccoli'' herself survived the war and continued to serve in the Italian Navy until 1972.
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Tier V Italian Cruiser. The third series of the ''Condottieri'' class, two ''Raimondo Montecuccoli''-class cruisers were built in 1931-1935. The second ship of the class, ''Muzio Attendolo'', was heavily damaged by a torpedo and later destroyed during repairs, while ''Raimondo Montecuccoli'' herself survived the war and continued to serve in the Italian Navy until 1972.1972.
* SmokeOut: Starting with Tier V ships in the line get Exhaust Smoke Generator, that covers the ship even on full speed.
* SmokeOut: Starting with Tier V ships in the line get Exhaust Smoke Generator, that covers the ship even on full speed.
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Tier VI Italian CruiserCruiser. The first heavy cruiser in the line (and in the Italian Navy), ''Trento'' was the lead ship of her class of two units, built in 1925-1929. Both ships were extensively used in WWII, and eventually were sunk.
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Tier VII Italian CruiserCruiser. ''Zara''-class, one of the strongest pre-WWII cruiser classes in the world, numbered 4 ships, built in 1929-1932. However, all but one - ''Gorizia'' - were lost early in the war, in the disastrous for Italy battle of Cape Matapan.
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Tier VIII Italian Cruiser. In 1940 Ansaldo created three cruiser designs - with 4x2 203mm, 4x3 152mm and 3x3 203mm main battery. Amalfi is a somewhat faithful recreation of the third variant.
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Tier VIII Italian Cruiser. In A 1940 Ansaldo created three cruiser designs project, proposed in three variants - with 4x2 203mm, 4x3 152mm and 3x3 203mm main battery. Amalfi The in-game ship is a somewhat faithful recreation of based on the third variant.
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* ArtisticLicenseShips: as noted above, this design had her 152mm guns replaced with 203mm artillery. It woudn't be possible in real life, since 203mm guns are much, much heavier.
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* ArtisticLicenseShips: as noted above, this design had her 152mm guns replaced with 203mm artillery. It woudn't be possible in real life, life without modifying the project, since 203mm guns are much, much heavier.quite a bit heavier than 152mm ones.
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Tier X Italian CruiserCruiser. A fictional desing, loosely based on 1940 Ansaldo design, ''Venezia'' stands at the top of the Italian cruiser line.
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Tier I Italian CruiserCruiser. The sloop, built in 1937, was the flagship of the Italian ''Flotta del Mar Rosso'' in East Africa,. After the war started, she travelled to Japan, where the ship was used as a submarine tender, before surrendering to allies in 1943. The ship was transferred to France, where she, under the name ''Francis Garnier'', was used until 1966, before being sunk in a nuclear test later that year.
* StarterEquipment: The first Italian ship avilable to a new player.
* StarterEquipment: The first Italian ship avilable to a new player.
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Tier II Italian CruiserCruiser. ''Nino Bixio'' was a class of two cruisers, built in 1911-1914. Both ships served throughout WWI, mainly used in Adriatic Sea. They have seen several clashes with Austro-Hungarian Navy, but survived the war, and were sold for scrap in 1929.
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Tier III Italian CruiserCruiser. ''Taranto'', originally named ''Strassburg'', was a German ''Magdeburg''-class cruiser. She was given to Italy as reparations in 1920. She carried out several minor missions in WWII, but was scuttled the day after the Italian Armistice to prevent her capture by the Germans.
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Tier IV Italian CruiserCruiser. ''Alberto di Giussano'' was the lead ship of the ''Condottieri'' class, built in 1928-1931. All four ships of the class were sunk in the war.
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Tier V Italian CruiserCruiser. The third series of the ''Condottieri'' class, two ''Raimondo Montecuccoli''-class cruisers were built in 1931-1935. The second ship of the class, ''Muzio Attendolo'', was heavily damaged and later destroyed during repairs, while ''Raimondo Montecuccoli'' herself survived the war and continued to serve in the Italian Navy until 1972.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed. In the game she's classified as a destroyer, while in real life ''Capitani Romani''-class ships were considered light cruisers. However, after post-war refit they were reclassified as destroyer leaders.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed. In the game she's classified as a destroyer, while in real life ''Capitani Romani''-class ships were considered light cruisers. However, after post-war refit they [=WWII=], the two ships of this class that stayed in Italian hands, ''Pompeo Magno'' and ''Giulio Germinaco'', were reclassified refitted and then reclassed as destroyer leaders.
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The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019. Destroyer line is scheducheled to release in early 2022.
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The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019. Destroyer line is scheducheled to release was released in early 2022.
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* ThemeNaming: Italian destroyer classes were named not after the lead ship, but after some theme. For example, ''Turbine''- and ''Maestrale''-classes were named after winds and ''Soldati''-class - after military professions.
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Tier II Italian DestroyerDestroyer. ''Curtatone''-class destroyers were a group of four ships, built for the Italian navy in 1920-1924. One of the ships survived WWII, and was decomissioned in 1951.
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Tier III Italian DestroyerDestroyer. ''Sauro''-class was a series of four destroyers, built by Italy in 1924–1927. All four ships were lost in WWII.
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Tier IV Italian DestroyerDestroyer. ''Turbine''-class was a group of eight ships, built in 1925–1928. All of them were lost in WWII.
* ThemeNaming: All ships of the class were named after different types of winds.
* ThemeNaming: All ships of the class were named after different types of winds.
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Tier V Italian Destroyer. She ''Maestrale''-class was the lead ship of her class, all named after different winds. Out a group of four ships built, three destroyers, constructed in 1931–1934. All but one ship were lost during in WWII, with the war.surviving one being decomissioned in 1964.
* ThemeNaming: All ships of the class were named after different types of winds.
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Tier VI Italian Destroyer. The first ship of ''Soldati''-class, the most numerous type of destroyers in Italian Navy.
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Tier VI Italian Destroyer. The first ''Aviere'' was the lead ship of ''Soldati''-class, the most numerous type of destroyers in Italian Navy.Navy. They were being built since 1938, and by the Italian armistice in 1943 two ships were still in construction. Out of 17 completed ships of the class 10 were lost, three were transferred to France, two more - to the USSR, and two were left in the newly created Marina Militare.
* ThemeNaming: Ships of the ''Soldati''-class were named after various military professions. Also, both ships that ended in the Soviet navy were renamed by standard Russian naming scheme - a "cool" adjective that start with the same letter - "L"[[note]]cyrillic "Л"[[/note]] in this case.
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Tier VII Italian Destroyer. She was the lead ship of ''Navigatori''-class, the most powerful type of destroyers in the Italian Navy.
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Tier VII Italian Destroyer. She was the The lead ship of the ''Navigatori''-class, the most powerful type of destroyers in the Italian Navy.Navy. In 1928–1929 twelve ships were built, and all but one were lost in the war, with the last one being decomissioned in 1954.
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Tier X Italian Destroyer. ''Capitani Romani'' was a class of light cruisers, that Italy built in 1939. Only 4 ships of the class were completed.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed. Initially, ''Capitani Romani''-class ships were classified as light cruisers, but after post-war refit they were reclassified as destroyer leaders.
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Tier X Italian Destroyer. ''Capitani Romani'' was a class of light cruisers, that Italy built started buiding in 1939. Only Out of 12 planned, only 4 ships of the class were completed.
completed. All of the completed ships survived the war, with two of them being transferred to France as reparations.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed.Initially, In the game she's classified as a destroyer, while in real life ''Capitani Romani''-class ships were classified as considered light cruisers, but cruisers. However, after post-war refit they were reclassified as destroyer leaders.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed.
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Warships belonging to the [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] in [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarships World of Warships]].
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With the exception of several Premium ships, the Regia Marina uses a new ammunition type, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells (SAP), which replace standard HE shells. SAP shells can never over-penetrate a target and have higher-than-average auto-ricochet angle. SAP also has higher Alpha Damage than Italian AP shells, and great for dealing with largely any ship that is not a cruiser sitting broadside on to them. Most Italian ships, including high-tier Battleships, also feature Exhaust Smoke-Screen which provides a very short duration, but instantaneous, smoke screen that does not require the ship to slow down, allowing for very quick disengagements.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. It's also impossible for them to start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. It's also impossible for them to start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
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Italian Destroyer line is to be released in the first half of 2022. Like other researchable Italian ships, Italian Destroyers possess SAP shells, except they replace AP instead of HE rounds. Thanks to it, their artillery is very powerful, but its range is extremly limited. They also has Exhaust Smoke Generator and Emergency Engine Power, allowing them to make otherwise-suicide torpedo runs.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Even Tier X ship can't shoot further than 8,5 km without optional upgrades.
* PointDefenseless: Italian and French lines share the dubious distinction of being the only high-tier destroyers that lack dual-purpose main battery. And even then French AA is superiour to Italian.
* ThemeNaming: Italian destroyer classes were named not after the lead ship, but after some theme. For example, ''Turbine''- and ''Maestrale''-classes were named after winds and ''Soldati''-class - after military professions.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Even Tier X ship can't shoot further than 8,5 km without optional upgrades.
* PointDefenseless: Italian and French lines share the dubious distinction of being the only high-tier destroyers that lack dual-purpose main battery. And even then French AA is superiour to Italian.
* ThemeNaming: Italian destroyer classes were named not after the lead ship, but after some theme. For example, ''Turbine''- and ''Maestrale''-classes were named after winds and ''Soldati''-class - after military professions.
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Tier V Italian DestroyerDestroyer. She was the lead ship of her class, all named after different winds. Out of four ships built, three were lost during the war.
* AnachronicOrder: ''Maestrale''- and ''Soldati''-class destroyers were laid down only after last ''Navigatori''-class ship was comissioned. And yet, ''Luca Tarigo'' is higher in Tier than them.
* AnachronicOrder: ''Maestrale''- and ''Soldati''-class destroyers were laid down only after last ''Navigatori''-class ship was comissioned. And yet, ''Luca Tarigo'' is higher in Tier than them.
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Tier VI Italian DestroyerDestroyer. The first ship of ''Soldati''-class, the most numerous type of destroyers in Italian Navy.
* CompositeCharacter: She has single 120mm gun replacing starshell gun, something that only ''Carabiniere'' and the second series of the class had.
* CompositeCharacter: She has single 120mm gun replacing starshell gun, something that only ''Carabiniere'' and the second series of the class had.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Downplayed. Initially, ''Capitani Romani''-class ships were classified as light cruisers, but after post-war refit they were reclassified as destroyer leaders.
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Tier VIII Italian BattleshipBattleship. The sole series of fast battleships of Italy, of which three were commissioned, and one more launched, but never finished.
* NoSwastikas: Well, no Fascist symbols. ''Vittorio Veneto''-class is more commonly called ''Littorio''-class, but it's the name for a bearer of ''fasces''. You know, a symbol of fascism, and the thing it was named after.
* NoSwastikas: Well, no Fascist symbols. ''Vittorio Veneto''-class is more commonly called ''Littorio''-class, but it's the name for a bearer of ''fasces''. You know, a symbol of fascism, and the thing it was named after.
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Tier IX Italian BattleshipBattleship. A completly fictional ship, basically a WhatIf on theme "If Vittorio Veneto had four-gun turrets".
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Tier X Italian BattleshipBattleship. Another fictional design, this time with four four-gun turrets.
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The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019.
[[folder:Italy Cruisers]]
With the exception of several Premium Cruisers, the Regia Marina's Cruisers from Tier 2 and onward introduce a new ammunition type to the game, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells or SAP, which replace standard HE shells. Similar in someways to the British Cruisers AP, SAP shells can never over-penetrate a target and have a much higher than average auto-ricochet angle. SAP also has higher Alpha Damage than Italian AP shells, and great for dealing with largely any ship that is not a cruiser sitting broadside on to them. The Italian Cruisers also feature Exhaust Smoke-Screen which provides a very short duration, but instantaneous, smoke screen that does not require the ship to slow down, allowing for very quick disengagements.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. Also Italian Cruisers can not start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
!Duca d'Aosta
Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light cruiser combined with excellent maneuverability and what was once the fastest speed among cruisers. The reason she's such a pain to kill is that ships with enough penetration have trouble hitting her before she dodges while everything will simply struggle to do damage.
!Duca degli Abruzzi
Italian Tier 7 premium cruiser.
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for a light cruiser and boasting a Repair Party, she is rather vulnerable to citadel penetrations simply due how far said citadel sticks above the water.
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot at an enemy for damage, weakening Gorizia's ability to deal with Battleships. Ultimately, this makes ''Gorizia'' less of a "Destroyer hunter" and more of a back line ship that can punish overconfident destroyer captains trying to flank an allied fleet.
The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019.
[[folder:Italy Cruisers]]
With the exception of several Premium Cruisers, the Regia Marina's Cruisers from Tier 2 and onward introduce a new ammunition type to the game, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells or SAP, which replace standard HE shells. Similar in someways to the British Cruisers AP, SAP shells can never over-penetrate a target and have a much higher than average auto-ricochet angle. SAP also has higher Alpha Damage than Italian AP shells, and great for dealing with largely any ship that is not a cruiser sitting broadside on to them. The Italian Cruisers also feature Exhaust Smoke-Screen which provides a very short duration, but instantaneous, smoke screen that does not require the ship to slow down, allowing for very quick disengagements.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. Also Italian Cruisers can not start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
!Duca d'Aosta
Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light cruiser combined with excellent maneuverability and what was once the fastest speed among cruisers. The reason she's such a pain to kill is that ships with enough penetration have trouble hitting her before she dodges while everything will simply struggle to do damage.
!Duca degli Abruzzi
Italian Tier 7 premium cruiser.
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for a light cruiser and boasting a Repair Party, she is rather vulnerable to citadel penetrations simply due how far said citadel sticks above the water.
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot at an enemy for damage, weakening Gorizia's ability to deal with Battleships. Ultimately, this makes ''Gorizia'' less of a "Destroyer hunter" and more of a back line ship that can punish overconfident destroyer captains trying to flank an allied fleet.
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The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall
[[folder:Italy Cruisers]]
With the exception of several Premium
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals.
!Duca d'Aosta
[[folder:Italian Cruisers]]
!Eritrea
Tier I Italian Cruiser
!Nino Bixio
Tier
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light
!Taranto
Tier III Italian Cruiser
!Alberto di Giussano
Tier IV Italian Cruiser
!Raimondo Montecuccoli
Tier V Italian Cruiser
!Trento
Tier VI Italian Cruiser
!Zara
Tier VII Italian Cruiser
!Amalfi
Tier VIII Italian Cruiser. In 1940 Ansaldo created three cruiser
!Duca degli Abruzzi
!Brindisi
Tier IX Italian Cruiser. It's based on the second version of mentioned-above Ansaldo design, exept with 203mm main battery.
*ArtisticLicenseShips: as noted above, this design had her 152mm guns replaced with 203mm artillery. It woudn't be possible in real life, since 203mm guns are much, much heavier.
!Venezia
Tier
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for
*ArtisticLicenseHistory: Venezia is a
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot
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!Dante Alighieri
Tier IV Italian Battleship
!Conte di Cavour
Tier V Italian Battleship
!Andrea Doria
Tier VI Italian Battleship
!Francesco Caracciolo
Tier VII Italian Battleship
!Vittorio Veneto
Tier VIII Italian Battleship
!Lepanto
Tier IX Italian Battleship
*ArtisticLicenseHistory: Lepanto is a completely fictional ship, designed by developers as an evolution of Littorio-class battleships.
!Cristoforo Colombo
Tier X Italian Battleship
*ArtisticLicenseHistory: Cristoforo Colombo is a completely fictional ship, designed by developers as further evolution of Littorio-class battleships.
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[[folder:Italian Cruisers]]
!Duca d'Aosta
Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light cruiser combined with excellent maneuverability and what was once the fastest speed among cruisers. The reason she's such a pain to kill is that ships with enough penetration have trouble hitting her before she dodges while everything will simply struggle to do damage.
!Duca degli Abruzzi
Italian Tier 7 premium cruiser.
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for a light cruiser and boasting a Repair Party, she is rather vulnerable to citadel penetrations simply due how far said citadel sticks above the water.
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot at an enemy for damage, weakening Gorizia's ability to deal with Battleships. Ultimately, this makes ''Gorizia'' less of a "Destroyer hunter" and more of a back line ship that can punish overconfident destroyer captains trying to flank an allied fleet.
!Guilio Cesare:
Italian Tier 5 premium battleship.
Representative of the ''Conte di Cavour''-class of battleships, she appears in the game in her reconstructed form (i.e no middle turret). Most notably engaged HMS Warspite during World War II, and was ceded as war reparations to the Soviets, who renamed her ''Novorossiysk'' and refitted her with Soviet-standard AA. She was intended to be refitted further with Soviet-made 305mm guns, but before that could happen, she was lost due to an accident where she disturbed a German World War II leftover [[StickyBomb limpet mine]] while in Sevastopol Harbor, causing it to explode and tear a hole in the hull, the ship capsizing and taking down 608 men with her. She was later scrapped.
* BoringButPractical: She does not have any unique consumables (instead only having the standard damage control and repair consumables) or any sort of unique characteristics to make her stand out. But she doesn't need to: Thanks to her speed, acceptable durability, excellent gun handling, and unprecedented accuracy; ''Gulio Ceasare'' is generally considered to not only be the best BB of her tier, but also a decent performer even when facing tier 7 opponents.
* LightningBruiser: She boasts competitive durability (and would be excellent if not for a small HP pool) and can book it at a whopping 27.5 knots. The only tier 5 battleship that can go faster is the much less stealthy ''Kongo''.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.
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!Guilio Cesare:
Italian Tier 5 premium battleship.
Representative of the ''Conte di Cavour''-class of battleships, she appears in the game in her reconstructed form (i.e no middle turret). Most notably engaged HMS Warspite during World War II, and was ceded as war reparations to the Soviets, who renamed her ''Novorossiysk'' and refitted her with Soviet-standard AA. She was intended to be refitted further with Soviet-made 305mm guns, but before that could happen, she was lost due to an accident where she disturbed a German World War II leftover [[StickyBomb limpet mine]] while in Sevastopol Harbor, causing it to explode and tear a hole in the hull, the ship capsizing and taking down 608 men with her. She was later scrapped.
* BoringButPractical: She does not have any unique consumables (instead only having the standard damage control and repair consumables) or any sort of unique characteristics to make her stand out. But she doesn't need to: Thanks to her speed, acceptable durability, excellent gun handling, and unprecedented accuracy; ''Gulio Ceasare'' is generally considered to not only be the best BB of her tier, but also a decent performer even when facing tier 7 opponents.
* LightningBruiser: She boasts competitive durability (and would be excellent if not for a small HP pool) and can book it at a whopping 27.5 knots. The only tier 5 battleship that can go faster is the much less stealthy ''Kongo''.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.
Italian Tier 5 premium battleship.
Representative of the ''Conte di Cavour''-class of battleships, she appears in the game in her reconstructed form (i.e no middle turret). Most notably engaged HMS Warspite during World War II, and was ceded as war reparations to the Soviets, who renamed her ''Novorossiysk'' and refitted her with Soviet-standard AA. She was intended to be refitted further with Soviet-made 305mm guns, but before that could happen, she was lost due to an accident where she disturbed a German World War II leftover [[StickyBomb limpet mine]] while in Sevastopol Harbor, causing it to explode and tear a hole in the hull, the ship capsizing and taking down 608 men with her. She was later scrapped.
* BoringButPractical: She does not have any unique consumables (instead only having the standard damage control and repair consumables) or any sort of unique characteristics to make her stand out. But she doesn't need to: Thanks to her speed, acceptable durability, excellent gun handling, and unprecedented accuracy; ''Gulio Ceasare'' is generally considered to not only be the best BB of her tier, but also a decent performer even when facing tier 7 opponents.
* LightningBruiser: She boasts competitive durability (and would be excellent if not for a small HP pool) and can book it at a whopping 27.5 knots. The only tier 5 battleship that can go faster is the much less stealthy ''Kongo''.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.
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!Italy
The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019.
[[folder:Italy Cruisers]]
With the exception of several Premium Cruisers, the Regia Marina's Cruisers from Tier 2 and onward introduce a new ammunition type to the game, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells or SAP, which replace standard HE shells. Similar in someways to the British Cruisers AP, SAP shells can never over-penetrate a target and have a much higher than average auto-ricochet angle. SAP also has higher Alpha Damage than Italian AP shells, and great for dealing with largely any ship that is not a cruiser sitting broadside on to them. The Italian Cruisers also feature Exhaust Smoke-Screen which provides a very short duration, but instantaneous, smoke screen that does not require the ship to slow down, allowing for very quick disengagements.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. Also Italian Cruisers can not start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
!Duca d'Aosta
Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light cruiser combined with excellent maneuverability and what was once the fastest speed among cruisers. The reason she's such a pain to kill is that ships with enough penetration have trouble hitting her before she dodges while everything will simply struggle to do damage.
!Duca degli Abruzzi
Italian Tier 7 premium cruiser.
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for a light cruiser and boasting a Repair Party, she is rather vulnerable to citadel penetrations simply due how far said citadel sticks above the water.
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot at an enemy for damage, weakening Gorizia's ability to deal with Battleships. Ultimately, this makes ''Gorizia'' less of a "Destroyer hunter" and more of a back line ship that can punish overconfident destroyer captains trying to flank an allied fleet.
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[[folder:Italy Battleships]]
!Roma
Italian Tier 8 premium battleship.
The most famous ship of the Vittorio-Veneto class of battleships, and has the dubious honor of being the first major warship lost to guided munitions attack.
* LightningBruiser: Mounts good high penetration guns coupled with strong armor and 30 knots of speed.
* LittleUselessGun: Not her main battery (obviously) but her 90mm secondaries are some of the smallest guns in the game and can only pen the superstructures on destroyers. They also aren't the best fire starters either and their firing range is pretty short.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Roma had the misfortune of debuting one day after the incredibly powerful IJN ''Musashi'' on the North American server. A lot of the normal premium buying crowd just didn't see the point of Roma compared to the down-tiered ''Yamato''-class battleship.
** ''Guilio Cesare'''s previous introduction also didn't do her a lot of favors; ''Roma'' lacks the accuracy of the ''Guilio Cesare'' which disappoints those that expected Roma to share said trait.
* PointDefenseless: Her AA and secondaries are rather lackluster.
* PowerfulButInaccurate : Her 381mm guns are one of the straightest examples in the game. They penetrate very well, but her dodgy dispersion often causes her to miss or flunk.
* StealthExpert: she boasts a minimum detectablity range lower than some cruisers at her tier. Much of the appeal of Roma is from the fact that she can sneak up on unaware ships.
!Guilio Cesare:
Italian Tier 5 premium battleship.
Representative of the ''Conte di Cavour''-class of battleships, she appears in the game in her reconstructed form (i.e no middle turret). Most notably engaged HMS Warspite during World War II, and was ceded as war reparations to the Soviets, who renamed her ''Novorossiysk'' and refitted her with Soviet-standard AA. She was intended to be refitted further with Soviet-made 305mm guns, but before that could happen, she was lost due to an accident where she disturbed a German World War II leftover [[StickyBomb limpet mine]] while in Sevastopol Harbor, causing it to explode and tear a hole in the hull, the ship capsizing and taking down 608 men with her. She was later scrapped.
* BoringButPractical: She does not have any unique consumables (instead only having the standard damage control and repair consumables) or any sort of unique characteristics to make her stand out. But she doesn't need to: Thanks to her speed, acceptable durability, excellent gun handling, and unprecedented accuracy; ''Gulio Ceasare'' is generally considered to not only be the best BB of her tier, but also a decent performer even when facing tier 7 opponents.
* LightningBruiser: She boasts competitive durability (and would be excellent if not for a small HP pool) and can book it at a whopping 27.5 knots. The only tier 5 battleship that can go faster is the much less stealthy ''Kongo''.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.
[[/folder]]
The [[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] was introduced as the tenth faction in April 2017 with the Tier VI premium cruiser ''Duca d'Aosta'' and the Tier VIII premium battleship ''Roma'' appearing in January 2018. The Cruiser Tech Tree line was released in Fall 2019.
[[folder:Italy Cruisers]]
With the exception of several Premium Cruisers, the Regia Marina's Cruisers from Tier 2 and onward introduce a new ammunition type to the game, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells or SAP, which replace standard HE shells. Similar in someways to the British Cruisers AP, SAP shells can never over-penetrate a target and have a much higher than average auto-ricochet angle. SAP also has higher Alpha Damage than Italian AP shells, and great for dealing with largely any ship that is not a cruiser sitting broadside on to them. The Italian Cruisers also feature Exhaust Smoke-Screen which provides a very short duration, but instantaneous, smoke screen that does not require the ship to slow down, allowing for very quick disengagements.
This all comes at several costs however. While SAP has higher Alpha damage than AP, it uses similar damage mechanics to HE shells. They have reduced penetration value compared to AP shells and the less vital or more heavily armored a location is the less damage it deals. Also Italian Cruisers can not start any fires with their main battery gun. While the ships possess good long range ballistics, the ships themselves have notably little armor and long reload times for their guns, making them ill-suited for short range engagement. The ships also do not bring team utility consumables such as Radar or Hydro-Acoustics. Overall this makes the Italian ships built more as dedicated long-range fire support, capable of relatively hard hitting shots regardless of the target ship's facing.
!Duca d'Aosta
Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Duca d'Aosta has relatively few guns, and her shells do not bite particularly hard. But her shells' flight characteristics and accuracy are second to none. This allows the Aosta to just keep harassing its targets from afar until they die.
* LightningBruiser: Relatively speaking. She mounts a pretty solid armor scheme for a light cruiser combined with excellent maneuverability and what was once the fastest speed among cruisers. The reason she's such a pain to kill is that ships with enough penetration have trouble hitting her before she dodges while everything will simply struggle to do damage.
!Duca degli Abruzzi
Italian Tier 7 premium cruiser.
* GlassCannon: despite having strong armor for a light cruiser and boasting a Repair Party, she is rather vulnerable to citadel penetrations simply due how far said citadel sticks above the water.
* HealThyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
* MasterOfNone: While perhaps not the worst tier VII cruiser, she's generally considered the tier VII that is least worthy of purchase (being a premium). She has a small number of guns for a light cruiser of her tier and poor firing angles combined with a high citadel, making her an already questionable choice when first released. However after the Boise/Nueve De Julio was released (with their RN-esque super-heal and a significantly less vulnerable citadel) she's now no longer the best VII premium in any category.
!Gorizia
Italian Tier 7 Premium, unveiled as part of the 2019 Christmas, 2020 New year Event. A ship of the Zara-Class Heavy Cruisers.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Gorizia sacrifices reload speed and torpedoes for a Hydroacoustic Search consumable equal to German Cruisers. While the combination of SAP and consumable should in theory make ''Gorizia'' a great "Destroyer Hunter", being up close to the enemy fleet is exactly the ''last place'' Gorizia and Italian Cruisers want to be, and SAP shells relies on being able to repeatedly shoot at an enemy for damage, weakening Gorizia's ability to deal with Battleships. Ultimately, this makes ''Gorizia'' less of a "Destroyer hunter" and more of a back line ship that can punish overconfident destroyer captains trying to flank an allied fleet.
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[[folder:Italy Battleships]]
!Roma
Italian Tier 8 premium battleship.
The most famous ship of the Vittorio-Veneto class of battleships, and has the dubious honor of being the first major warship lost to guided munitions attack.
* LightningBruiser: Mounts good high penetration guns coupled with strong armor and 30 knots of speed.
* LittleUselessGun: Not her main battery (obviously) but her 90mm secondaries are some of the smallest guns in the game and can only pen the superstructures on destroyers. They also aren't the best fire starters either and their firing range is pretty short.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Roma had the misfortune of debuting one day after the incredibly powerful IJN ''Musashi'' on the North American server. A lot of the normal premium buying crowd just didn't see the point of Roma compared to the down-tiered ''Yamato''-class battleship.
** ''Guilio Cesare'''s previous introduction also didn't do her a lot of favors; ''Roma'' lacks the accuracy of the ''Guilio Cesare'' which disappoints those that expected Roma to share said trait.
* PointDefenseless: Her AA and secondaries are rather lackluster.
* PowerfulButInaccurate : Her 381mm guns are one of the straightest examples in the game. They penetrate very well, but her dodgy dispersion often causes her to miss or flunk.
* StealthExpert: she boasts a minimum detectablity range lower than some cruisers at her tier. Much of the appeal of Roma is from the fact that she can sneak up on unaware ships.
!Guilio Cesare:
Italian Tier 5 premium battleship.
Representative of the ''Conte di Cavour''-class of battleships, she appears in the game in her reconstructed form (i.e no middle turret). Most notably engaged HMS Warspite during World War II, and was ceded as war reparations to the Soviets, who renamed her ''Novorossiysk'' and refitted her with Soviet-standard AA. She was intended to be refitted further with Soviet-made 305mm guns, but before that could happen, she was lost due to an accident where she disturbed a German World War II leftover [[StickyBomb limpet mine]] while in Sevastopol Harbor, causing it to explode and tear a hole in the hull, the ship capsizing and taking down 608 men with her. She was later scrapped.
* BoringButPractical: She does not have any unique consumables (instead only having the standard damage control and repair consumables) or any sort of unique characteristics to make her stand out. But she doesn't need to: Thanks to her speed, acceptable durability, excellent gun handling, and unprecedented accuracy; ''Gulio Ceasare'' is generally considered to not only be the best BB of her tier, but also a decent performer even when facing tier 7 opponents.
* LightningBruiser: She boasts competitive durability (and would be excellent if not for a small HP pool) and can book it at a whopping 27.5 knots. The only tier 5 battleship that can go faster is the much less stealthy ''Kongo''.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.
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