Its guns also have a second-highest muzzle velocity. IJN Mutsuki has both the highest number of and the highest calibre of primary guns. Additionally, since they are all centrally mounted, it is possible to get all four turrets on target, although when making a turn rear-most turret has to travel over 180° to get a bearing on the target. It's comparatively a powerful weaponry excelling especially at longer ranges against its equivalents.Īll but the rearmost turrets aim forwards by default, making it relatively easy to hit targets ahead of her with her guns. The IJN Mutsuki is armed with four single 120 mm mounts, one in the bow, one just aft of the bridge in between the funnels, and two towards the aft. Overall, it's a difficult ship to play, posing a number of challenges to a player.įull broadside with all of of the Mutsuki's main guns, note the shockwaves coming from the end of the barrel due to released pressure wave.
On the other hand, it has only two, very weak, auxiliary guns and no dedicated anti-aircraft weaponry, making it a poor performer in close-range encounters. The ship is very much a destroyer geared towards long-range engagements, having the most powerful primary armament and the second-most-powerful torpedo setup among its battle rating, further increasing its performance in gunnery battles with relatively good armour. She is the first destroyer most players will play within the Japanese tree, and gameplay differs significantly from analogous coastal vessels such as the Syonan. IJN Mutsuki was introduced in Update 1.89 "Imperial Navy". Being an improvement over the previous Kamikaze-class destroyer, she saw service in the Sino-Japanese conflicts, and escorted combat fleets during WWII until her sinking at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Due to their nature of being planned as a means for unrestricted rapid expansion of the fleet, names weren't assigned to her class until 1928 after crew dissatisfaction and communication problems. The Mutsuki-class, IJN Mutsuki, 1941 (睦月, namesake: January) is the lead ship of the Mutsuki-class destroyers, which were ordered in 1923 after the Washington Navy Treaty restricted the size and number of capital warships.
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