Poor concealment (Slightly worse than Kitakaze).Horrible firing angles forcing you to give full broadside if you want to use more than 4 guns.Slow turret traverse speed meaning that you can’t keep guns on target when doing a turn at close range.

Low damage output due to low HE damage combined with only 5 guns and a longer reload than on Z-46.No long-range AA (Yes, I count it as a good point as it will avoid that situation with your random teammate, forgetting to turn their AA off, get dunked by the enemy carrier 2 minutes in because they got spotted from 6 km.).Good HP pool for a torpedo focused destroyer.32 mm HE penetration to damage enemy cruisers and battleships.

The Z-44 that we get in World of Warships is a bit different from the actual plans for the Type 1936B destroyer as she is armed with quintuple launchers instead of quadruple launchers. Finally, the uncompleted hull of Z-45 was scrapped in 1946. Z-44 was launched in January 1944 and her uncompleted hull was sunk by the Royal Airforce in July 1944. When it comes to the rest of the class, Z-40, Z-41 and Z-42 were canceled. She was sent to Kiel on the 2nd of May where she was scuttled the next day. After emergency repairs, she continued providing fire support in the Warnenmünde harbor until she exhausted all her ammunition. She was assigned to convoy escort and artillery support for troops on land until she struck a mine in April 1945. Z-43, the last survivor of the class was commissioned in May 1944 and followed her sisterships’ steps. In December 1944, due to bad weather, they entered ironically a friendly minefield and both struck mines with Z-36 sinking almost immediately and Z-35 a bit later. The ships were used for mine-laying operations, escorting convoys and bombarding Soviet positions. Z-35 and Z-36 were commissioned in September 1943 and February 1944 respectively. In total, 8 ships were planned but only 3 served during the war even though they had fairly short careers.

The Z-44 was a never-completed Type 1936B destroyer from the Kriegsmarine. Is she worth that amount of resources? Does she bring anything interesting to the table? Here is my opinion on it. So… the Z-44 is getting released today for the price of 228 000 coal or 19 300 doubloons.

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