Italian DD Tarigo WTF

[Tommygun]

Did I just spend time grinding this DD? 7.5 km artillery range? Really? I didn't even notice till I was in battle! Even my tier 3 Vampire has more range. This ship is unusable unless one gets the 20% range option for captain skills that will bump it to 9kms. I played it once, prob never again. What a waste.

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

You are missing what this "low" firing range means ... you can 1v1 a DD kill it and instantly go dark as your shells are not spotted by anything else!!

[chaosbringer42]

The Italian DDs are DD hunters. The short range means you can just go outside your spot radius and you are invis right away even after firing, no 10 second waiting period.

[christof]

I was very doubtful about this myself at first. But have since successfully used this to my advantage. The short range is a limitation. But your detection range only going up by 200 metres each time you fire can be beneficial. And with the barrel speeds (and thus shell flight times) some DD guns have, firing past 8-10km is often a mere game of chance anyway except for targets that are stationary or have the worst kind of mobility. At least if you're facing players. Try and watch some FR25 gameplay if you want to see an Italian DD with better main battery range, but much worse barrel speed in action. The difference is striking.
The Italian tech tree DDs also have decent speed on them, meaning your chances of actually getting into gun range are fairly decent. Not to forget that while the torpedoes are still incredibly weak, slow and not very numerous, they do have a decent range and a quick reload. Giving you the option to be a huge annoyance to any enemy ships trying to push a certain sector.

tl,dr: It's not as bad as it looks. It can be useful.

[Tommygun]

Aha, I forgot about detection range being your firing range! Good point, let me try again. Ill be back...

[Banzai]

Your gun range is your stealth range effectively and load SAP and murder any DDs unwise enough to try and fight you.

[christof]

I am starting to quite like my Tarigo, I must say. Though if I could exchange the emergency power for the FR25's motor boost, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Then of course, the FR25 is a lot slower stock, so it needs the extra.