The Köln is a fun all round light cruiser with usable armour, a good amount of guns, decent fire rate and excellent firing angles. Limited use for screening of choke points and narrow water straits, but typically the range at which cruisers slug it out is too great to make use of them. The Köln has the ability to deploy up to twelve standard G7a torpedoes in four triple mounts, two of them mounted per side. Important to mention is that the rear turrets are a full 360° traversable, giving the Köln the ability to focus at least two turrets at a target at all times. Their muzzle velocity is uniform between the HE and APCBC rounds with a quick 960 m/s and between the HE-TF and SAPBC rounds with 835 m/s, therefore slightly easier to aim than other contemporary cruisers. It should be noted however that the APCBC is only useful at medium ranges, everything over 8,000 m which isn't broadside is very difficult to damage. APCBC: for more heavily armoured cruisers like Admiral Hipper, USS Brooklyn and IJN Mogami.SAPBC: can also be utilized against destroyers and for lightly armoured cruisers such as USS Trenton, IJN Agano, USS Portland.These shells are the same as on the Emden so most captains will be familiar with these: These cannons come with a maximum rate of fire of 8 shots per minute and can fire HE, SAPBC, APCBC and time-fused HE shells. The primary armament consists of nine 15 cm/60 SK C/25 cannons mounted in three triple turrets, one central in the front, and two in the rear, slightly off-centre to the left and to the right.
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