Most of her hull is covered in 25mm of armor which makes her resistant to HE fire from 152mm or smaller guns but vulnerable to IFHE shells but her bow and stern only gets 16mm of hull plating. She packs 76mm of belt armor and her citadel runs from the front of the turrets to the aft turrets with a large portion sitting well above water under the smoke stacks which makes her very easy to citadel. The Aoba has a good amount of HP sitting around 31,900 which is more than the rest of the T6 cruisers minus the Cleveland and Graf Spree. She is the pair of old clothes you have laying around that fit right and look right for most occasions, but you tend to forget you own. It somehow stacks up to be a comfortable ship to sail though, she has a jack-of-all-trades feel to her where I don't feel like she is being a burden to the team while nothing that screams that she is overpowered in any single category. In exchange for that, she is one massive citadel with torpedo arcs that scream "delete me" for any enemy ship paying attention, her AA is laughable and her gun range is frankly lack luster. She still packs 203mm guns that fire fast and accurate, she is also stealthy and fast. She suffers from power creep at this point but that doesn't mean she is a bad ship, oh no, she is merely just more balanced than ever before. The Aoba is one of the original cruisers first introduced into the game and was once considered one of the best tier for tier cruisers in the game but since the introduction of several cruiser lines and the mix of new Destroyer lines and Battleship lines have really chewed down that title. Poor Aoba, ever since the Furutaka got the C-hull, she kinda lost her uniqueness at T6. Welcome Captains to the Tier 5 C-hull Furuta.opps err I mean T6 Cruiser Aoba.
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