Iron Duke
Iron Duke — British Tier V battleship.
A typical British battleship of World War I. The ship carried the same main battery guns as the battleships of the preceding class, but was armed with more powerful secondary battery guns.
Ship Stats
Survivability
Health: 34,048
Citadel Protection: 10%
Fire and Flooding Resistance: 10%
Damage Reduction: 12%
Torpedo Damage Reduction: 12%
Armour
Bow: 19 mm
Stern: 19 mm
Deck: 45 mm
Belt: 305 mm
Maneuverability
Top Speed: 22.51 Knots
Time to Full Speed: 20.73 s
Max Traverse Speed: 5.10 deg/s
Turn Time: 12.90 s
Main Guns (343 mm L/45 Mk II 5x2)
Reload Time: 22 s
Rate of Fire: 27.27 RPM
Range: 11.70 km
Flight Time: 6.17 s
Initial Velocity: 249.99 m/s
Deceleration: 3.63 m/s²
Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 138 m / 348 m / 64.80 m
Sigma: 1 σ
HE Damage: 1,064
Raw Alpha: 10,640
Raw DPM: 29,018
Fire Chance: 12%
Raw Alpha: 72.15%
Raw FPM: 1.97
AP Damage: 1,288
Raw Alpha: 12,880
Raw DPM: 35,127
Citadel Chance: 8%
Raw Alpha: 56.56%
Raw CPM: 1.54
Citadel Damage Rate: 250%
HE Citadel Damage: 2,660
AP Citadel Damage: 3,220
Turret Traverse: 4 deg/s
Secondary Guns (152 mm L/50 BL Mk XVI 12x1)
Reload Time: 10 s
Rate of Fire: 36 RPM
Range: 5.28 km
Flight Time: 2.97 s
Initial Velocity: 237.38 m/s
Deceleration: 8.90 m/s²
Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 120 m / 300 m / 60 m
Sigma: 0 σ
HE Damage: 336
Raw Alpha: 2,016
Raw DPM: 12,096
Fire Chance: 2%
Raw Alpha: 11.42%
Raw FPM: 0.685 FPM
Turret Traverse: 10 deg/s
Anti-Aircraft Armament
Large Caliber AA Damage: 72
Large Caliber AA Range: 3 km
Small Caliber AA Damage: 87
Small Caliber AA Range: 1.50 km
Total AA Damage: 159
Concealment
Surface Detection: 10.08 km
After Firing Guns: 13.68 km
Ship Skills and Elite Bonus
Rapid Reload I x2
Main gun reload time: -15% for 20 seconds
Before: 22 s
After: 18.70 s
Battleship Modernization
Ship Hit Points: +3%
Small Caliber AA Damage: +5%
Torpedo Damage Reduction: +5%
Before: 34,048 / 87 / 12%
After: 35,069 / 91 / 12.60%
Torpedo Defense System
Torpedo Damage Reduction: +10%
Before: 12%
After: 13.20%
Ship Play-style
Iron Duke is essentially an Orion on steroids, with better overall performance and the addition of a rapid reload consumable. She is a strong battleship for her tier, well equipped to deal with her contemporaries.
FIREPOWER
Iron Duke's guns are largely the same as Orion, but with improved dispersion and modest buffs to other stats. They are the same good HE slinging, destroyer deleting weapons from before, courtesy of their very flat shell arcs. The addition of rapid reload 1 is nice for modest increases in DPM when necessary, but the guns themselves are already more than good enough.
Iron Duke also has a battery of large caliber 152mm secondaries. These are too short ranged and have too long a reload to be valuable.
PROTECTION
Iron Duke is on the more fragile end of T5, but quite acceptable. As a T5 battleship, she has modest resistance values but armour and HP that is sufficient for the tier. Basic self preservation will be sufficient to keep yourself alive.
EVASION
A standard T5 rating here. Iron Duke's speed and agility is very average for this tier, though there are now some fast battleships in her matchmaking spread. Iron Duke, evasion-wise, is perfectly adequate but nothing more.
ANTI-AIR
Iron Duke lacks the AA damage or range to be a viable threat to CVs.
Historical Info
Iron Duke was one of the defining classes of super-dreadnought during the first world war. In-game, she is modelled with a fictional refit which adds AA guns and trunks her two funnels into one oversize funnel. This refit has no impact on gameplay and exists purely to make the ship model inaccurate.