World of Warships—massive naval clashes. Take command of legendary vessels from the early 20th century and fight for domination on the high seas.

Air Squadrons

Torpedoes

Armament

How to Destroy
the Enemy

Air Squadrons

Aircraft carriers are a unique ship type in World of Warships. Their main strike capability consists of air squadrons with different types of weapons. Torpedo bombers and dive bombers are designed to attack enemy ships, whilst fighters are used for reconnaissance and taking down enemy aircraft. With skillful management, these planes are able to quickly deal with any single target, but always beware of ships with powerful air defenses, and particularly cruisers. Losing members of your squadron in battle is common, but remember you have a limited number of warbirds on your aircraft carrier.

Many cruisers and battleships also have one aircraft on board—a Catapult Fighter or a Spotting Aircraft. The former serves to protect against enemy aviation, the latter is designed for recon and increases your ship’s accuracy and range of fire.

Torpedoes

Not all ships are equipped with torpedoes, but for many destroyers, they are the main armament. Torpedoes are very dangerous: when they hit, these projectiles do a lot of damage and can cause flooding. Often a single torpedo hit can destroy a ship in an instant. At the same time, torpedoes are difficult to use: you must anticipate enemy maneuvers and ambush them.

Each torpedo has a range limit (4 to 20 km). Torpedoes with shorter ranges are more difficult to fire effectively, and, as a rule, are found on ships favoring artillery fire. Other important parameters are speed and detectability range. The higher the speed and the shorter the detectability range of torpedoes, the more difficult it will be for the enemy to dodge them.

Armament

A ship’s armament is divided into three types:

• Main armament—with the highest damage capability
• Auxiliary armament—additional source of damage for close quarters
• AA guns (anti-aircraft guns)—weapons to defend against air squadrons.

The main armament is under the player’s control, whereas AA guns and auxiliary armament operate automatically. The caliber of the armament, their number, the maximum range of fire, and the reload speed all depend on the ship. But the basic principles of firing are always the same:

• Anticipate your shot: try to consider the distance to the enemy ship and its speed, as well as the speed of the flight of the shell
• Use armor-piercing shells to penetrate the enemy's armor and cause critical damage
• Use high-explosive shells to disable modules or if the enemy's armor is too strong, set it on fire.

How to Destroy
the Enemy

Every ship has a certain amount of hit points, and your key objective is to deal damage, reduce the pool of hit points, and send the enemy to the bottom of the deep blue sea. There are several ways to do this.

1. Light and critical damage: hits from shells, torpedoes, and bombs cause damage, so prolonged and methodical shelling of the enemy is the right way to destroy it. Damage can be multiplied if you strike the citadel—the most important part of the ship, located in the center of the hull. For this purpose, armor-piercing shells must be used.
2. Fire: an effect caused by a high-explosive projectile or air bomb. Significantly increases the visibility of the ship and causes serious periodic damage.
3. Flooding: an effect caused by torpedo hits. It slows the speed of the ship considerably and causes serious damage until it is repaired.
4. Detonation: this leads to the immediate destruction of the ship, achieving such a hit is very difficult.
5. Ramming: colliding with the enemy almost always leads to the sinking of both ships.

The Port

Commanders

Camouflage and
Signal Flags

Upgrades and
Consumables

The Port

The first thing you see in World of Warships is the Port. Just like ships, Ports are varied but all share a single function: provide access to the open seas. All your ships are harbored in the carousel at the bottom of the screen while the Battle! button can be found at the top. This is all you need to know to enter your first battle, but you’ll need to grasp all of the possibilities within the Port to get more from your experience.

You can explore and research further down the branch of different nations and prepare your ship for battle. This can involve adding upgrades, signal flags, camouflage, and consumables. You can train Commanders and define their skills or keep track of the daily missions you are working on. You can also read the news, look at your detailed combat stats, and check how your account is progressing. There is even a chat to help you find divisions and clans to call your home. The Port is the quietest place in World of Warships, but there’s always something to do. As you level up, more features will become available. You can use the Port as an easy-to-navigate hub to explore all of them and more.

Commanders

Commanders are an integral part of World of Warships. Like ships, they accumulate experience, which can be spent on their skill tree. Some skills further improve the combat characteristics of the ship, others allow for new abilities. The more fights under the Commander’s belt, the more skills open up and the greater your advantage over an opponent can be. Remember to choose skills wisely, based on the characteristics of the ship and its type. The maximum number of skill points is 19. If you have a fully upgraded Commander, you will start earning Elite Commander XP, which can be used freely on other, less experienced Commanders that you might have.

Ordinary Commanders can be recruited in the Port and assigned to any ship of their corresponding nation. In addition, the game has a collection of unique Commanders with their own individual characteristics, for example, Yamamoto Isoroku, Viktor Znamensky, Franz von Jütland, and others. They can be obtained by participating in special game events.

Camouflage and
Signal Flags

World of Warships offers a great many varieties of camouflage and signal flags. They not only significantly change the appearance of the ship, but also increase her profitability and effectiveness in battle. There are many ways to regularly earn them. As a rule, camouflage slightly reduces the detectability range of your ship and decreases the accuracy of the enemy firing at your ship. It can also increase your earnings in terms of credits, experience, or Commander experience in battle.

Signal flags are conditionally divided into combat and economic types. The former give the ship bonuses to combat characteristics, for example, +5% to speed, -5% to reload speed of consumables, etc. Economic signals can offer additional credits, experience, and Commander experience or a reduction in the cost of repairs. Signal flags and camouflage can be used in combination for an extra boost.

Upgrades and
Consumables

Improve and adjust the ships to your playstyle. For this, there are modules, upgrades, and consumables. Modules are parts of a ship that need to be researched using experience, and installed using credits. They improve a ship's combat characteristics and progress it towards the next tier.

Upgrades are additional elements available to install on a ship using credits. With their help, you can improve armament, maneuverability, concealment, or survivability. Up to six upgrades can be installed on ships of higher tiers. Consumables allow the ships to use additional capabilities in battle: installation of smoke screens, restoration of hit points, temporary reinforcement of air defense, and so on. The set of available consumables depends on the type, nation, and tier of the ship. Each consumable has an improved version available to players for credits or doubloons.

Battle Types

Playing with
Friends

Clans

Battle Types

World of Warships is a team game. Each team has up to 12 players, depending on the type of battle chosen. Decide for yourself: fight against AI bots or real-life rivals, play in random or team battles, with or without rankings on the line.

• Co-Op Battle—a kind of "training" situation, where all the opponents are bots.
• Scenarios—types of battle in which players participate in special sea operations. To win, you are required to perform certain tasks (defend the base, escort the convoy, etc.).
• Random Battle—a battle against other players selected randomly with tier limits.
• Ranked Battles—a seasonal mode. Winning battles, honing your skills, and gaining higher ranks are the key objectives.
• Clan Battles—Tier X team battles, available only to clan members. For victories in these battles, clans receive a rating, and players receive rewards. This is an excellent opportunity to gather like-minded people and show off your skills to the entire region.

Playing with
Friends

Play with your friends and find new comrades!

In World of Warships, there is always an opportunity to team up in a squad of two or three players, increasing combat effectiveness and spending time in pleasant company. You can directly assemble a division. Members of a division have their own separate communication channels, including a voice chat.

Clans

What’s even more interesting is to join a clan that can unite up to 50 people. Each clan has its own naval base, which can bring its participants additional experience in battles, discounts on ships, and other bonuses.

Clans can fight each other in the aforementioned special battle type for a place on the leaderboard.