IJN Tenryu

The IJN Tenryu is a Tier 3 cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

In game description:
The first light cruiser of the Japanese Navy, Tenryu was more of an upscaled destroyer rather than a cruiser. Designed to act as a Destroyer flotilla leader, her career as such was fairly uneventful. Her only notable action during World War II was during the Battle of Savo Island, in which she sank the American cruiser USS Quincy with torpedoes. She was later sunk by US submarines during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

In game:
In game, she acts similar to how the game describes her, as a large destroyer. However, the term is also quite literal in its meaning here, in that it suffers from all shortcomings of low tier destroyers, but on a larger scale except for low healthpools, which is still not completely solved.

As her description implies, she acts like a larger destroyer, having larger and more guns, albeit coming with a larger size, no increase in torpedo quantity, and the lack of ability to discharge smoke.

She is best played as a gunboat, shooting at targets and committing to evasive manoeuvres at the maximum gun range of 9km to ensure survivability, usage nearby islands is recommended if possible, but do not overextend for the sake of it. Your torpedoes should only be used for area denial as a method to force your enemies into turning towards or away from you if they are approaching and is at around 5km so you can utilise your torpedoes.

Overall, she is a somewhat decent that tries to be an enhancement of a bad ship type (Low Tier Destroyers) but fails, with the only saving grace being her somewhat high gun DPM. The user can play in a more laxed way not need to worry as much about getting the Kuma as quickly as possible.

Pros:

 * Average speed for a Japanese cruiser (33 knots) and above average speed for a low tier cruiser
 * Good Gun damage output

Cons:

 * Mediocre Torpedo damage and low torpedo armament count similar to all low tier destroyers
 * Low healthpool for a cruiser, albeit being able to survive a few high caliber shells, a full salvo will still be lethal
 * Long hull compared to Destroyers
 * Lack of the ability to discharge smoke unlike Destroyers