Skill Floor: Simple / CASUAL/ Challenging / Difficult She's a German destroyer without Hydroacoustic Search. Terrible gun handling with bad rearward fire arcs.Īnemic torpedo warheads that do only 13,700 damage per hit. Good range (12km) and speed (64 knots) on her fish. Quick Summary: A Type 1936B-class German destroyer that trades access to a Hydroacoustic Search and main battery DPM for a bigger torpedo armament of longer-ranged, fast-reloading fish.Įxcellent HE penetration, allowing her to directly damage up to 32mm hull sections.įast reload on her quintuple torpedo launchers. Yet hidden within this unimaginative veneer, Z-44 has some frightening potential that echoes the terror of Benham. Simply being German isn't enough to sell Z-44, not when there's a glut of other German premium destroyers like Z-39, T-61 and her sister-ship, Z-35. With the near constant string of 'more different' design, it seems like Z-44 doesn't have a chance to stand out and capture attention. She has nothing special in the way of consumables save that short duration Smoke Generator. At a glance, Z-44 is a hybrid destroyer with a torpedo-bias. In this regard, Z-44 reminds me a lot of Blyskawica's design. You know, before there was a German destroyer tech-tree line - where simply being German would have been enough to make her stand out from the crowd. Z-44 feels like something I would have come up with then. It would have been a bare bones ship with nary a gimmick in sight other than being German. I doubt I would even have imagined adding Hydroacoustic Search. I wouldn't have gone with shorter smoke duration. I wouldn't have imagined improved AP shell performance.

If you had told me then that Wargaming was adding a German premium destroyer, the kind of ship I would have imagined then is very different from the kind of destroyers we're seeing now. Let's turn back the clock a few years, all the way back to mid 2016. Please be aware that her performance may change in the future. To the best of my knowledge, the statistics discussed in this review are current as of patch 0.9.11. She was provided to me by Wargaming for review purposes at no cost to me. The following is a review of the German premium destroyer Z-44.

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