IJN CAs (Zao line) - Standard captain build
- Damage farming kiting cruiser line. Sports powerful HE, improved gun accuracy, and has long range torps but struggles with short gun range and relatively fragile
- This build allows IJN CAs to support DDs in contesting objectives, as well as use their torps for area denial against enemy ships pushing towards you.
- Make sure you use the 12 km range torpedoes (Type 93 mod 3), not the 8 km ones.
- You may swap PT for LS on cruisers lower than Zao as they tend to lose their steering gears to even cruiser calibre HE.
- You can use Suzuki for his improved SE skill.
- If you don’t have the Spotter mod, or when it’s not applicable, use MAM1. If you don’t have the Hydro mod, use ERP.
- When dodging BB shells, avoid showing a completely flat stern to the shells. IJN cruisers are notorious for getting citadeled though the aft
- Applies to Chikuma, Tenryu, Kuma, Furutaka, Aoba, Myoko and ARP clones, Atago, ARP Takao, Mogami, Ibuki and Zao.