The survival rate of destroyers in Steel Ocean is a little bit lower than that of other larger warships like battleships, raising the question: “How can you maximize a destroyer’s potential?

1. Improve Your Destroyer’s Scouting Ability!

The most important function of a destroyer is scouting ahead and locating targets for battleships and cruisers in the rear. ↓

a. Level up the radar on your destroyers to the maximum 1st. Higher-level radar can usually detect 400 to 500 meters more than basic radar. Therefore, make sure you upgrade your radar first when upgrading your ships!

b. Assign commanders who can increase view distance. For example, if you assign “Nakayama Arashi” to your communicator slot, your scouting range will be increased by 500 meters. Your scouting range will increase dramatically esp. after upgraded the commanders’ rarity.

c. Equipping Range Finders on your destroyers can also improve your destroyers’ scouting ability.

2. Improve Your Destroyer’s Disguise.

To really excel in scouting ahead, you’ll also need to improve your disguise. You can follow the points below:

a. Don’t rashly enter the enemy’s shooting range, otherwise you will become the opponent’s main target. Learn to predict the movement of enemy destroyers and slowly move closer to them.

b. If you are within the enemy’s scouting range, use smoke bombs to hide yourself. You can first throw a smoke bomb around you and then throw smoke bombs in the direction you’re moving. We recommend that you use DD,CL smoke bombs, as you can carry 7 of them on your ship, they have a wide range and a 90-second duration, and they can hide your ship almost immediately.

c. Select commanders who can increase your disguise. Felix von Luckner can increase your disguise by 5%. After upgrading his rarity, you will gain another 2% disguise.

After making adequate preparations, you need to improve cooperation between ships on your team. Steel Ocean is a game that requires a lot of teamwork, and it is through cooperation that you can experience more fun and success in the game! We hope you found this useful and we’ll see you on the waves!

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