The USS South Carolina is the first battleship of the USN line and introduces the American battleship playstyle, which stays similar all the way through the Colorado. She is the only battleship at that tier that is capable of firing all primary turrets to either side making her in most cases a more formidable opponent than her Tier III counterpart, the IJN battleship Kawachi.
In Game Description
As the first battleship the South Carolina takes some getting used to. She is slow and not very maneuverable which takes some practice to learn positioning early on in the battle and how to avoid letting ships with torpedoes get in too close. The primary guns can deliver tremendous firepower, able to heavily damage enemy cruisers and destroyers in a single salvo, though require a longer than average reload time and also have a very slow turn rate making it recommended in most instances to turn the ship to get the guns on target quicker. Equipped with good armor, a trait common to most US battleships, she can close in and slug it out at point blank range where she can make use of the large amount of secondary guns and land full broadsides from her primary guns.
Detailed information
Ship info
Stock
Elite
Displacement
17746t
Length
138m
Width
24.46m
Power
16500hp
No change
Survivability
Ship hit point
25800
No change
Citadel Protection
10.00%
No change
Fire and Flooding resistant
10.00%
No change
Damage Reduction
11.20%
No change
Torpedo Damage Reduction
10.50%
No change
Maneuverability
Max speed
17.51kts
No change
Time to full speed
21.06sec
No change
Max Traverse Speed
5.40deg/s
No change
Turn Time
10.80sec
No change
Guns
Main gun
305mm L/45 Mk5 4x2
No change
Reload time
21.00sec
No change
Range
10.00km
10.66km
Main battery HE Damage
Unknown
763
Chance of setting fire
0%
9.00%
Main battery AP Damage
Unknown
1145
Citadel Damage Rate
250.00%
No change
Main battery SAP Damage
Unknown
No change
Turret Traverse Speed
5.00deg/s
No change
Secondary gun
Secondary gun
76mm L/50 Mk4 18x1
No change
Reload time
6.00sec
No change
Range
4.84km
No change
Secondary battery HE Damage
174
No change
Secondary battery AP Damage
Unknown
No change
Secondary battery SAP Damage
Unknown
No change
Citadel Damage Rate
0%
No change
Chance of setting fire
2.00%
No change
Turret Traverse Speed
12.00deg/s
No change
Anti-Aircraft Armament
Large Caliber AA Damage
36
No change
Large Caliber AA Range
3.00km
No change
Small Caliber AA Damage
Unknown
No change
Small Caliber AA Range
Unknown
No change
Concealment
Surface detection
9.96km
No change
Equipped skill
R&D cost
Research
2500
25,000
Not Applicable
Selling
12500
Trivia
South Carolina was the first of the American Dreadnought type battleships, a term coined with the introduction of the HMS Dreadnought which was the first all big gunned battleship to be completed. South Carolina was innovative in its super firing turret arrangement where the rear turret was mounted above the front turret so both turrets could fire forward allowing the ship to be shorter while still packing the same punch. Also South Carolina had all turrets center lined so the full broadside power could be brought to bear port or starboard while foreign designs of the time, including Dreadnought, had cheek mounted guns unable to fire to the other side of the ship. This modern design would later be incorporated by most foreign Navies and all subsequent US battleships.
