ROKS Sejong the Great

The Sejong, as seen in-game

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The ROKS Sejong The Great (e.g ROKS KDX-III Batch-I), also called Sejong for short, is a Korean destroyer in the game.

## Background History

Sejong The Great was built as part of the KDX Batch Program. Origanally codenamed KDX Batch-I, the decision to build the ships were approved of the ROKN in the early 2000s. Named after an emperor, Sejong The Great, the named was approved and Sejong gave her name to the class. She was launched in 2007 and became part of the ROKN's heavy attack force. Her design is based on the American Arleigh Burke-class.

While she was built as KDX Batch-I, there are plans for the ROKN to make Batch-II and Batch-III, both of which are currently under "debation of commission".

## Overview

A new destroyer belonging to the nation of South Korea, Sejong reigns as a premium ship and costing a hefty price of 4,500 Gold. Although she looks like an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, she come with a unique plethora of weapons, including an offset amount of grenade launchers, as 1 is mounted on the port side only. With her unique artillery pieces, this especially has some drawbacks.

### Playing as a Sejong:

As a Sejong, your wepons are not that different from others like Gravely and Xiamen. As usual, deploy your helicopter, which can be used for recon and fire support for your allies. Once an enemy has been spotted, attack it with all of your heli's weapons and immediately comeback to controlling your ship. Lock on your missiles and consider looking at the environment for torpedo launching, as this will help you see of your torpedos will hit or miss. Begin bombarding them with your main gun. If the enemy has no torpedo launchers, consider using the more powerful grenade launcher but aim properly. Also use it for incoming torpedos.

As for AA defenses, the included armament is pretty decent, with a Goalkeeper in the back and RIM in the front. With these two paired, this will result in a high damage at medium to short distances to aircrafts.

### Playing alongside a Sejong

While a Sejong comes with a decent plethora of weapons, it would still require assistance with AA defenses and torpedos. If you and the Sejong are attacked, consider firing at the enemy warship and launch missiles but save torpedos for later. If both of you are torpedo targets, consider firing at the torpedos, as a Sejong only has one grenade launcher. As for others, both of you could attack against aircraft with AA including missiles as well.

### Playing against a Sejong

A Sejong, while being a decent adversary, will still require strategy to battle and sink with. First, using an Osprey, you could damage a Sejong and rapidly lower their own health, and once their detected, they could start with a lowered health while you have the advantage of more HP. While AA defenses are powerful, they can easily be overwhelmed. By working together with aircrafts, you can launch missiles while they can be used as bait for the AA defenses.

If your ship doesn't have much weaponry, cosider counterattacking but also RUN, as you will quickly be overwhelmed by the Sejong's wepons.

Suggested Armaments Setup

Missile: CJ-20(for spamming), SSM-700K C-Star(default, not bad too), JL-1( high damage but wasted once flared)

Cannon: AK-100(good for damage), Mark-45(worse version of AK-100), Melera Rapid(aid AA)

Torpedo: TA-53-56(high damage), HUWS(effective against all nearby units), K745 Blue Shark(fastest reload, highly recommended)

Grenade launcher: RBU-1200(fastest reload)

Air defense(first slot): RIM-116, 3M-47 Gibka(fastest reload), Type 730 AA(one of the best anti-air artillery), AK-630-2 AA(best damage, longest firing duration - also with long reload)

Air defense(second slot): RIM-116, Type 730 AA

## Advantages and Disadvantages:

### Advantages:

* Great pre-equipped AA, missiles and torpedos.
* Decent manueverability.
* Decent speed.
* Fast pre-equipped cannon.
* Grenade launcher allows for anti-sub and more firepower.

### Disadvantages:

* Aircraft can easily overwhelm HP.
* Offset grenade launcher allows for weaker anti-torpedo and sub.
* Surprisingly expensive, surpassing the IT Cavour aircraft carrier by over a thousand gold

## Trivia:

* Sejong The Great is the 3rd ROKN ship in the game, the fourth being the Batch-II.
* It may be essentially called a "South Korean Arleigh Burke" due to its strikingly similar appearance to the Arleigh Burke, both in the game and in real-life.
* During the developement of the update, the community greatly supported adding the ship and its pre-equipped wepons.
* It's price was originally 2,200 Gold, but this was later changed to 4,500 Gold.