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Warships attributed to the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) in World of Warships.

The 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 was released in early 2022.

Researchable ships of Regia Marina use a new ammunition type, Semi-Armor Piercing Shells (SAP), which replace one of standard shell types. They has higher alpha damage, can never over-penetrate a target, and ricochet far less often. It comes at the cost of lower penetration and inability to set enemy on fire. Another Italian feature is Exhaust Smoke Generator, equipped even on high-tier Battleships. It lasts only for a short while, but fully covers the ship even on maximum speed. On the other hand, ships themselves are somewhat fragile, has long reload and no team-utility consumables, for the most part resigning them to a long-range fire support.

Researchable ships

Italian Destroyers

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.

• Close-Range Combatant: Even Tier X ship can't shoot further than 8,5 km without optional upgrades.
• Point Defenseless: 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.

Curtatone

Tier II Italian Destroyer. 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.

Nazario Sauro

Tier III Italian Destroyer. Sauro-class was a series of four destroyers, built by Italy in 1924–1927. All four ships were lost in WWII.

Turbine

Tier IV Italian Destroyer. Turbine-class was a group of eight ships, built in 1925–1928. All of them were lost in WWII.

• Theme Naming: All ships of the class were named after different types of winds.

Maestrale

Tier V Italian Destroyer. Maestrale-class was a group of four destroyers, constructed in 1931–1934. All but one ship were lost in WWII, with the surviving one being decomissioned in 1964.

• Anachronic Order: 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.
• Theme Naming: All ships of the class were named after different types of winds.

Aviere

Tier VI Italian Destroyer. Aviere was the lead ship of Soldati-class, the most numerous type of destroyers in Italian 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.

• Composite Character: She has single 120mm gun replacing starshell gun, something that only Carabiniere and the second series of the class had.
• Theme Naming: 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" in this case.

Luca Tarigo

Tier VII Italian Destroyer. The lead ship of the Navigatori-class, the most powerful type of destroyers in the Italian 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.

Vittorio Cuniberti

Tier VIII Italian Destroyer. First paper ship in the line, it was a design, based on Maestrale-class.

Adriatico

Tier IX Italian Destroyer. Another paper ship, this time a project of a destroyer leader, similar to Soviet Tashkent.

Attilio Regolo

Tier X Italian Destroyer. Capitani Romani was a class of light cruisers, that Italy started buiding in 1939. Out of 12 planned, only 4 ships of the class were completed. All of the completed ships survived the war, with two of them being transferred to France as reparations.

• Artistic License – History: Downplayed. In the game she's classified as a destroyer, while in real life Capitani Romani-class ships were considered light cruisers. However, after WWII, the two ships of this class that stayed in Italian hands, Pompeo Magno and Giulio Germinaco, were refitted and then reclassed as destroyer leaders.

Italian Cruisers

Eritrea

Tier I Italian Cruiser. 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.

• Starter Equipment: The first Italian ship avilable to a new player.

Nino Bixio

Tier II Italian Cruiser. 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.

Taranto

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.

Alberto di Giussano

Tier IV Italian Cruiser. 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.

Raimondo Montecuccoli

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.

• Smoke Out: Starting with Tier V ships in the line get Exhaust Smoke Generator, that covers the ship even on full speed.

Trento

Tier VI Italian Cruiser. 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.

Zara

Tier VII Italian Cruiser. 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.

Amalfi

Tier VIII Italian Cruiser. A 1940 cruiser project, proposed in three variants - with 4x2 203mm, 4x3 152mm and 3x3 203mm main battery. The in-game ship is based on the third variant.

Brindisi

Tier IX Italian Cruiser. It's based on the second version of mentioned-above Ansaldo design, exept with 203mm main battery.

• Artistic License – Ships: as noted above, this design had her 152mm guns replaced with 203mm artillery. It woudn't be possible in real life without modifying the project, since 203mm guns are quite a bit heavier than 152mm ones.

Venezia

Tier X Italian Cruiser. A fictional desing, loosely based on 1940 Ansaldo design, Venezia stands at the top of the Italian cruiser line.

• Artistic License – History: Venezia is a completely fictional ship, designed as a 'logical continuation' of the 1940 Ansaldo cruiser design. Her armament really did exist, at very least.

Italian Battleships

Dante Alighieri

Tier IV Italian Battleship. 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.

• Named After Somebody Famous: Dante Alighieri, the author of The Divine Comedy.

Conte di Cavour

Tier V Italian Battleship. 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.

• Named After Somebody Famous: All three ships were named after famous Italians, namely Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, a major figure in Italian unification.

Andrea Doria

Tier VI Italian Battleship. The second series of Conte di Cavour class was built in 1912-1916. In 1930s both series of the class were heavily modernised, with the second series in 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.

• Named After Somebody Famous: Like the first series, they were named after famous Italians, namely Andrea Doria, a Genoese statesman, and Gaius Duilius, a Roman admiral.

Francesco Caracciolo

Tier VII Italian Battleship. 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.

Vittorio Veneto

Tier VIII Italian Battleship. The sole series of fast battleships of Italy, of which three were commissioned, and one more launched, but never finished.

• No Swastikas: 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.
• Smoke Out: The first ship in the line to get the Exhaust Smoke Generator.

Lepanto

Tier IX Italian Battleship. A completly fictional ship, basically a What If? on theme "If Vittorio Veneto had four-gun turrets".

• Artistic License – History: Lepanto is a completely fictional ship, designed by developers as an evolution of Littorio-class battleships.

Cristoforo Colombo

Tier X Italian Battleship. Another fictional design, this time with four four-gun turrets.

• Artistic License – History: Cristoforo Colombo is a completely fictional ship, designed by developers as further evolution of Littorio-class battleships.
• Alpha Strike: One of the heaviest broadsides in the game, and significantly slower-than-average reload force players to play on the ship this way.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of Americas.

Premium ships

Italian Premium Cruisers

Duca d'Aosta

Italian Tier 6 premium cruiser.

• Death of a Thousand Cuts: 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.
• Lightning Bruiser: 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.

• Glass Cannon: 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.
• Heal Thyself: Is fitted with a damage repair party.
• Master of None: 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.

• Crippling Overspecialization: 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.

Italian Premium Battleships

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 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.

• Boring, but Practical: 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.
• Lightning Bruiser: 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.
• Named After Someone Famous: Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar.

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.

• Lightning Bruiser: Mounts good high penetration guns coupled with strong armor and 30 knots of speed.
• Little Useless Gun: 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.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: 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.
• Point Defenseless: Her AA and secondaries are rather lackluster.
• Powerful, but Inaccurate : 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.
• Stealth Expert: 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.