French Battleship & Battlecruiser – Tier II & III Proposal by Volcanares
3 min readHello everyone,
Volcanares emailed me a big file whith loads of French Battleships and Battlecruisers. He created a proposal branch that mixes both battleships and battlecruisers, with several alternatives on some tiers.
Because the list is very long, twenty five ships in total, I’ve decided to split the article into several ones by Tiers. The first part will have all Tier II and III proposals, so the article doesn’t end up very long.
Again, I’m no expert here, so I’ll leave it up to you guys to evaluate if this could be a good branch for World of Warships, if there are any particular ship you would like to see, etc.
Please note this is just a proposal by a player. There is no guarantee Wargaming will implement this branch as its proposed, neither should you consider this article as confirmation of a French Battleship Branch is coming to the game.
Author: Volcanares
Date: 09/06/2017
I’ve created a list with French Battleships and Battlecruisers which could be added to World of Warships,.
I gathered data from several places, as accurate as possible, but there could be some errors.
According to the sources, data change because of the year and the evolution or improvement of the ships and projects. Furthermore Wargaming will have to balance and to create different hulls and other modules, so the data might change even if these are the good ones.
I’ve added Tier II, Pre-Dreadnought, even if I know they will not be added to the game for now, but who knows ? Maybe one day.
French Battleship & Battlecruiser Proposal
Tier II – Danton
Characteristics
| Displacement | 18 500t |
| Length | 145m |
| Width | 25,8m |
| Speed | 19,2 knots |
| Main Armament | 4x 305mm guns + 12x 240mm |
| Secondary Armament & AA | 16x 75mm |
| Torpedoes | 2x 450mm |
| Armour | Belt: 200-255mm Deck: 75mm Turrets: 225-280mm Conning Tower: 300mm |
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Tier II – Liberté
Characteristics
| Displacement | 14 750t |
| Length | 134m |
| Width | 24m |
| Speed | 19,4knots |
| Main Armament | 4x 305mm guns + 10x 194mm |
| Secondary Armament & AA | 12x 65mm + 8x 47mm |
| Torpedoes | 2x 450mm |
| Armour | Belt: 280mm Deck: 120mm Turrets: 355mm Conning Tower: 305mm |
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Tier II – République
Characteristics
| Displacement | 14 750t |
| Length | 133m |
| Width | 24m |
| Speed | 19knots |
| Main Armament | 4x 305mm guns |
| Secondary Armament & AA | 18x 164mm |
| Torpedoes | 2x 450mm |
| Armour | Belt: 280mm Deck: 55mm Turrets: 355mm Conning Tower: 305mm |
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Tier III – Courbet
Characteristics
| Displacement | 23 500t |
| Length | 166m |
| Width | 27m |
| Speed | 21 knots |
| Main Armament | 12x 305mm guns |
| Secondary Armament & AA | 22x 138mm + 4x 47mm |
| Torpedoes | 4x 450mm |
| Armour | Belt: 180-270mm Deck: 30-70mm Turrets: 250-290mm Conning Tower: 300mm |
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Tier III – 17 500t type
Characteristics
| Displacement | 17 500t |
| Length | 205m |
| Width | 24.5m |
| Speed | 35 knots |
| Main Armament | 8x 305mm guns |
| Secondary Armament & AA | 6x 90mm + 10x 37.5mm |
| Torpedoes | N/A |
| Armour | Belt: 150-180mm Deck: 75mm Turrets: 80-155mm Conning Tower: 100-130mm |
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Nice.
But with twelve 305mm, the Courbet is clearly Tier 4 material, just like the Wyoming.
Courbet has wing turrets and cant fire all 12. Courbet also has range and penetration issues. Its a tier 3.
A 17500 tons BC designe with 35knots speed and with 8 305mm guns. Just how the ****? Its just impossible.
Look at the Des monines. Thats a 17k tons cruiser from 1948. And it has
around the same armor like this impossible dream. And only can do 33 knots. Not to mention the gunpower.
Just how good the frech were, where they do better than US from 45????
And with only 200m length they do 35 knots with a 18k tons desinge???
Not a little bit optimistic thnking xD