Riga

Survivability

Health: 38,350

Citadel Protection: 15%

Fire and Flooding Resistance: 15%

Damage Reduction: 12%

Torpedo Damage Reduction: 12%

Armour

Bow: 65 mm

Stern: 65 mm

Deck: 76 mm

Belt: 140 mm

Maneuverability

Top Speed: 33.07 Knots 

Time to Full Speed: 24.43 s

Max Traverse Speed: 5.80 deg/s

Turn Time: 12.30 s

Main Guns (220 mm L/60 SM-7 3x3)

Reload Time: 12.50 s

• Rate of Fire: 41.54 RPM

Range: 13.19 km

• Flight Time: 5.20 s

  • Initial Velocity: 320.46 m/s

  • Deceleration: 5.71 m/s²

Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 84 m / 336 m / 64.80 m

Sigma: 0 σ

HE Damage: 708

• Raw Alpha: 6,372

• Raw DPM: 30,586

Fire Chance: 8%

• Raw Alpha: 47.96%

• Raw FPM: 2.32

AP Damage: 1,062

• Raw Alpha: 9,558

• Raw DPM: 45,878

Citadel Chance: 10%

• Raw Alpha: 61.26%

• Raw CPM: 2.94

Citadel Damage Rate: 200%

• HE Citadel Damage: 1,416

• AP Citadel Damage: 2,124

Turret Traverse: 5 deg/s

Secondary Guns (130 mm L/60 BL-101 6x2)

Reload Time: 5 s

• Rate of Fire: 72 RPM

Range: 6.90 km

• Flight Time: 3.20 s

  • Initial Velocity: 284.11 m/s

  • Deceleration: 8.01 m/s²

Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 60 m / 240 m / 54 m

Sigma: 2 σ

HE Damage: 389

• Raw Alpha: 2,334

• Raw DPM: 28,008

Fire Chance: 3%

• Raw Alpha: 16.70%

• Raw FPM: 2.00 FPM

Turret Traverse: 16 deg/s

Anti-Aircraft Armament

Large Caliber AA Damage: 255

Large Caliber AA Range: 3.90 km

Small Caliber AA Damage: 198

Small Caliber AA Range: 1.80 km

Total AA Damage: 551

Concealment

Surface Detection: 10.38 km

After Firing Guns: 14.70 km

Precise Aiming II x2

Main Gun Dispersion: -35% for 20 s

Before: 84 m / 336 m / 64.8 m

After: 54.6 m / 218.4 m / 42.12 m

Cooldown: 75 s

Air Defense Alert I x2

Large Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s

Small Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s

Before: 255 / 198

After: 446 / 346.5

Cooldown time: 75 s

Advanced Gun Director

Main Battery Firing Range: +4%

Before: 12.62 km

After: 13.12 km

Internal Bulkhead Upgrade

Ship Hit Points: +1%

Torpedo Damage Reduction: +7%

Fire and Flooding Resistance: +7%

Before: 38,350 / 12% / 15%

After: 38,734 / 12.84% / 16.05%

Riga is a long range sniper. She has poor turret traverse that is worse than even some battleships, long reload even for her gun caliber and has questionable dispersion at best. She is neither a effective sniper, nor a good brawler, and of the two sniping is a better role for her most of the time. However, she can be very capable against light cruisers and most heavy cruisers at any range as her guns have excellent gun penetration, making full penetrations and citadels on other cruisers fairly common when using AP. She will have a hard time dealing with destroyers, due to her poor gun dispersion, long reload time, and mediocre secondaries. Always keep an eye out for DDs, as you will find yourself in a sticky situation if one decides to rush you. She has decent armor for a cruiser, but it is not capable of protecting her against large caliber guns from even long ranges. Her AA defences are above average, but will not protect her from constant attacks from enemy aircraft even with Defensive AA. Note that it is not worth purchacing permanent camoflauges for this ship at this point in time.

Riga was a design variant of Project 82, which consisted of mutiple heavy artillery ships designed for the Soviet Union to acompany Light Cruisers and proposed Aircraft Carriers to from a powerful battle group capable of taking on American forces. Riga never materialized, and the Stalingrad class were laid down instead in 1951. None of the Project 82 cruisers were completed, with the construction of Stalingrad being cancelled after Stalin's death in 1953. The only Soviet battlecruisers built after Project 82 will be the Kirov's, which were laid down 20 years later with one still under modernization today.