world of warships where to aim to hit citadel

Most, if not all of the armour was concentrated to form a 'citadel' around a ship's engines and magazine spaces - so long as these citadel zones remained intact, a ship could still survive. As such, the decision was made to only armour up the critical zones that were absolutely necessary for the ship's survival. Quick-and-dirty explanation: As naval designers started building larger ships to handle the bigger guns going out to see, they began to realize that they couldn't afford to fit armour everywhere. Here's a quick guide on how to do it back to other people.

P.S.Ever been oneshot by an enemy ship, or seen a massive chunk of your hitpoints suddenly disappear in a single salvo? You probably had your citadel zone wrecked. So you gotta get in closer and good luck with that in Yamato :)

You see, blue shell coming at steeper angle is nowhere near citadel. If you want to get the engine spaces, you'll need even flatter arc, meaning much closer distance. Want to citadel her from the front, red line is sort of the maximum angle to the horizontal that a shell can have to pen the bow and make it into ammo racks. If you're too far, shell will most likely just drop vertically through the deck armor and not hit anything important. But then it means that you need an even flatter angle to cit GK through the nose. Say, GK is stupidly massive and it's nose section is half the length of an entire Yamato and there's nothing of use there. This means that shell should be coming at reasonably flat angle and it will hugely depend on the ship you're trying to citadel. Your shell has to pass through the bow armor plating and then fly through the entire nose section and then hit citadel. I don't own a Yamato, but logic suggests it has a lot to do with range.

World of warships where to aim to hit citadel