Smolensk: Inertia Fuse or Demo Expert?

[slayerfar]

Simple question, right?

[Donegali]

If I had one, I would go Inertia Fuse, you got a pretty good fire chance with the amount of shells she puts out anyway. In fact I would probably go for both.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Theres this awesome skill all Smolensk commanders should take.... but its a special steam one....its called the uninstall skill and is located in your steam library :P

PS if you play through wargaming.net you can still aquire this skill, its just located in control pannel>applications. Well worth taking imo haha

[s u p e r g r a m p s]

IFHE on 130mm only increases penetration from 21mm to 27mm, which allows her to full pen German and USN Heavy Cruisers (27mm plating) and most Tier VIII-X light cruisers (25mm plating).

Taking both would be preferable, as you can still get 10% with IFHE + DE + Fire flags compared to the 11% you can get with DE + Fire Flags.

[OBXandos]

According to Yuro you want Demo. I do agree with that as well. The 130mm guns don't cross any major thresholds with IFHE. I think all it gives you is penning cruiser fore and aft armors. You go from 21mm to 28mm.

Yuro Video - https://youtu.be/bGyl1ORj3J0?t=520

[Ashardalon]

both
but IFHE is more important as it already has a pretty ludicrous 9% firechance
but adding demo on it to compensate for the loss is also great

[slayerfar]

Originally posted by OBXandos:

According to Yuro you want Demo. I do agree with that as well. The 130mm guns don't cross any major thresholds with IFHE. I think all it gives you is penning cruiser fore and aft armors. You go from 21mm to 28mm.

Yuro Video - https://youtu.be/bGyl1ORj3J0?t=520

Aye. And penning Cruisers is a thing, since aiming at their Superstructure is a bit more tricky than Superstructure on BBs. Some shots are bound to go wide and hit their bow/stern respectively.

Me thinks it'll be IFHE.

[OBXandos]

The amount of use you will be getting from those 4 points in IFHE are fairly negligible compared to the fire chance you gain from Demo + the free point. IFHE will ONLY affect the bow/aft of cruisers. The fire chance will affect every ship you shoot at regardless of penetration or not.

If you REALLY want to get that extra pen on cruisers then I guess it's worth it. Me personally I think you get far more utility out of demo expert.