Ro-Go

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Ro-Go
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Ro-Go
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Description

The Type 95 Ro-Go is a premium Rank I Japanese "landship" with a battle rating of 1.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.67 "Assault".

General info

Survivability and armour

The Ro-go is an excellently protected vehicle for 1.3. featuring armour thick enough to stop 50. from all angles, and when angled even anti-tank guns. As well, The placement of modules deep down inside the hull, where most 1.3 players would never think of shooting, makes the chance that the ammo, engine, transmission and fuel tanks getting hit rather low. Even the crew inside the tank are pretty well protected by the tank's armour, and if everything fails you still have the lone machinegunner in the back turret, which means that a lot of the time you will be able to make a partial recovery from getting shredded to pieces by the waves of Pz.IIs and M2A4s.

Armour type:

  • Rolled homogeneous armour
Armour Front (Slope angle) Sides Rear Roof
Hull 35 mm Front plates
25 mm (61°) Front glacis
25 mm (68°) Lower glacis
30 mm (0-56°) Top
30 + 6 mm Bottom
13 mm Top
25 mm (0-32°) Bottom
13 mm
Main Turret 30 mm (8-78°) Turret front
30 mm Gun mantlet
25 mm (8-10°)
15 mm (2-34°)
25 mm (8°) Machine gun port 8 mm
Secondary Turret #1 30 mm (0-1°) Turret front
30 mm Gun mantlet
25 mm 25 mm 8 mm
Secondary Turret #2 14-15 mm (0-3°) 25 mm 25 mm 13 mm
Armour Sides Roof
Cupola 25 mm 8-13 mm

Notes:

  • Suspension wheels and tracks are 15 mm thick. Suspension bogies are 10 mm thick.

Crew

  • Commander
  • Gunner
  • Loader
  • Secondary gunner
  • Machine gunner
  • Driver

Mobility

Mobility characteristic
Weight (tons) Add-on Armour
weight (tons)
Max speed (km/h)
25.5 N/A 24.5 (AB)
23 (RB/SB)
Engine power (horsepower)
Mode Stock Upgraded
Arcade 374 ____
Realistic/Simulator 256 ____
Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
Mode Stock Upgraded
Arcade 14.67 __.__
Realistic/Simulator 10.04 __.__

Armaments

Main armament

Main article: Type 94 (70 mm)
70 mm Type 94
Capacity Vertical
guidance
Horizontal
guidance
Stabilizer
100 -10°/+22° ±180° N/A
Turret rotation speed (°/s)
Mode Stock Upgraded Prior + Full crew Prior + Expert qualif. Prior + Ace qualif.
Arcade 7.44 10.30 __.__ __.__ 14.72
Realistic 5.47 6.44 __.__ __.__ 9.20
Reloading rate (seconds)
Stock Prior + Full crew Prior + Expert qualif. Prior + Ace qualif.
5.20 __.__ __.__ 4.00
Ammunition
Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration in mm @ 0° Angle of Attack
10m 100m 500m 1000m 1500m 2000m
Type 95 APHE APHE 20 19 17 14 12 11
Type 92 HE HE 9 9 9 9 9 9
Type 3 HEAT HEAT 76 76 76 76 76 76
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Velocity
in m/s
Projectile
Mass in kg
Fuse delay

in m:

Fuse sensitivity

in mm:

Explosive Mass in g
(TNT equivalent):
Normalization At 30°
from horizontal:
Ricochet:
0% 50% 100%
Type 95 APHE APHE 298 4.4 1.2 15 170 -1° 47° 60° 65°
Type 92 HE HE 348 3.8 2.0 0.1 590 +0° 79° 80° 81°
Type 3 HEAT HEAT 200 3.4 0.0 0.1 601.6 +0° 62° 69° 73°
Ammo racks
Full
ammo
1st
rack empty
2nd
rack empty
3rd
rack empty
Visual
discrepancy
100 98 (+2) 95 (+5) (+99) No

Turret empty: 95 (+5)

Additional armament

Main article: Type 94 (37 mm)
37 mm Type 94
Secondary turret mount
Capacity Vertical
guidance
Horizontal
guidance
Stabilizer
50 -8°/+20° ±110° N/A
Reloading rate (seconds)
Stock Prior + Full crew Prior + Expert Qualif. Prior + Ace Qualif.
4.3 __.__ __.__ __.__
Ammunition
Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration in mm @ 90°
10m 100m 500m 1000m 1500m 2000m
Type 94 APHE APHE 44 39 29 17 9 7
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Velocity
in m/s
Projectile
Mass in kg
Fuse delay

in m:

Fuse sensitivity

in mm:

Explosive Mass in g
(TNT equivalent):
Normalization At 30°
from horizontal:
Ricochet:
0% 50% 100%
Type 94 APHE APHE 575 0.67 1.3 15 13 -1° 47° 60° 65°
Ammo racks
Full
ammo
1st
rack empty
2nd
rack empty
3rd
rack empty
4th
rack empty
5th
rack empty
Visual
discrepancy
150 146 (+4) 141 (+9) 91 (+59) 46 (+104) (+149) No

Turret empty: 141 (+9)

Machine guns

Main article: Type 97 tank (7.7 mm)
7.7 mm Type 97
Rear turret mount
Capacity (Belt capacity) Fire rate
(shots/minute)
Vertical
guidance
Horizontal
guidance
1,950 (20) 499 -8°/+20° ±110°

Usage in the battles

The Ro-go, like most landships, is the perfect vehicle to lead an assault. The Ro-go's relatively thick armour and impressive firepower mean that the Ro-go can deal a lot of punishment to the enemy. As well, if being the spearhead of an assault isn't your style, you can always use that sweet 200 m/s to annoy enemies who think that they are safe behind buildings, walls, rocks and even hills.

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Main gun with 70mm HE and the secondary with 37m AP are a deadly combination
  • 70mm's amazing 200 m/s with heat shells (slowest in the game) means that it can shoot enemies behind cover
  • Great gun depression and good elevation
  • Six crew vehicle
  • The secondary frontal turret can act as a shield to absorb some hits
  • has relatively thick armour enough to stop 50. from all angles and, when angled, many anti-tank guns
  • Good maneuverability for a heavy tank
  • 70mm HEAT shells excel in both penetration and dama
  • Modules are very well hidden in amongst the vehicle

Cons:

  • Slow turret traverse makes the Ro-Go easy to flank
  • Features only a single machinegun in a rear turret
  • Two massively different trajectories for the main guns
  • Back turret ammo runs out very quickly
  • Very slow
  • Penetration with standard APHE for both guns is lacking

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Japan heavy tanks
Type 95  Ro-Go
Germany  ▅Heavy Tank No.6

Japan premium ground vehicles
Light tanks  Ha-Go Commander · Type 16 (FPS)
Medium tanks  Chi-Ha Short Gun · Chi-He (5th Regiment) · Ka-Chi · Chi-Nu II · Type 74 (G) · Type 90B "Fuji"
Heavy tanks  Ro-Go · ▅Heavy Tank No.6
Tank destroyers  Ho-Ri Prototype · Type 75 MLRS