Supertest: French Tier X Freemium Destroyer Marceau
3 min readSo we are back at it with the new ships coming with the Update 0.8.8. To start, let’s have a look at Marceau, the ship that hypes me the most but yet triggers me a lot.
The Marceau presents the same characteristics as the other French destroyers. She has the special +20% Engine boost and the saturable middle section. However, she trades her Main Battery Reload Booster for a Defensive AA. Also, her torpedoes are not the super-fast torpedoes of the high tier French destroyers but instead, they are the same as those of the French cruisers.
One final thing to note, her X turret can actually rotate at 360° degrees. It will be a bit awkward since the Y turret can’t but it is still quite a nice addition.
Now the question is what is Marceau exactly?
The Marceau is a Kléber-class and with the hypothesis that the ship would have been completed after the war, in the early 50s. Because of this, her superstructure is modernized and her main armament consists of 4 twin 127 mm/54 gun turrets. Now, you would expect that she also get modern 57 mm/60 ACAD. Well no. She for some weird reasons gets outdated 40 mm Bofors Mk 1 and 2 which doesn’t make any sense. It would be like having the old 37 mm Flakzwilling 30 from Tirpitz on an Iowa-class.
I seriously do not understand that choice…
Some people might be wondering why she is named the same way as the real Marceau that was a modified Z-31 that France received as a war price. It’s simply because initially, that name really was meant for a Kléber-class destroyer.
Hull | Engine | Gun Fire Control System | Main battery | Torpedoes |
Marceau |
Propulsion: 96 842 hp |
PCA n°10 Mle 1 |
127 mm/54 Mle 1948 |
550 mm 23DT |
| Tier | X |
| Health | 21 900 HP |
| Main Armament | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 11.500 km |
| 127 mm/54 Mle 1948 | 4 x 2 127 mm |
| Torpedo Armament | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 9.000 km |
| 550 mm tube lance-torpilles | 4 x 3 550 mm |
| Maximum speed | 44 kt |
| Turning Circle Radius | 740 m |
| Rudder Shift Time | 4.8 s |
| Surface Detectability | 8.88 km |
| Air Detectability | 4.84 km |
| Detectability After Firing Main Gus in Smoke | 3.42 km |
| 4 x 2 127 mm/54 Mle 1948 | |
| Reloading Time | 3.5 s |
| 180 Degree Turn Time | 6.0 s |
| Optimal front firing angle | 20° for 3 guns 27° for 4 guns |
| Optimal rear firing angle | 27° |
| Sigma | 2.00 sigma |
| Maximum Dispersion | 117 m |
| Shells | |
| Type of Projectile | HE – 127 mm HE Mark 42 |
| Alpha Damage | 2 100 HP |
| Damage | 550 HP |
| Penetration capacity | 20 mm |
| Explosion size | 0.44 |
| Fire chance | 7% |
| Projectile Speed | 808 m/s |
| Air Drag | 0.308 |
| Projectile Mass | 31.5 |
| Projectile Krupp | 475 |
| Projectile Detonator | 0.001 s |
| Type of Projectile | AP – 127 mm AP Mark 41 |
| Alpha Damage | 2 600 HP |
| Chance to Cause Fire | -0.5 % |
| Projectile Speed | 808 m/s |
| Air Drag | 0.308 |
| Projectile Mass | 32.5 |
| Projectile Krupp | 2 200 |
| Projectile Detonator | 0.03 s |
| 4 x 3 550 mm tube lance-torpilles 550 mm 23DT | |
| Reloading Time | 90 s |
| Maximum Distance | 9.0 km |
| Optimal front firing angle | 20° |
| Optimal rear firing angle | 25° |
| Damage | 14 833 |
| Speed | 60 kt |
| Surface Detectability | 1.3 km |
| 4 x 2 127 mm/54 Mle 1948 | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 6.0 km |
| Hit chance | 100 % |
| Sector’s damage | 24 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 84 |
| Flak clouds number | 3 |
| Flak cloud damage | 1680 |
| 2 x 2 40 mm/56 Bofors Mk1 3 x 4 40 mm/56 Bofors Mk2 | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 3.5 km |
| Hit chance | 100 % |
| Sector’s damage | 39 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 137 |
| 4 x 2 20 mm/70 Mk20 | |
| Sector range | 0.1 km – 2.0 km |
| Hit chance | 95 % |
| Sector’s damage | 16 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.29 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 56 |
Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 |
 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 60 s |  Number of charges: 3 Work time: 40 s Cooldown: 120 s |  Number of charges: 2 Work time: 180 s Cooldown: 120 s Boost: +20% maximum speed |
 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 40 s |  Number of charges: 3 Work time: 40 s Cooldown: 80 s |  Number of charges: 3 Work time: 180 s Cooldown: 90 s Boost: +20% maximum speed |
The armor
It’s a destroyer so nothing interesting to see here. Her hull is 19 mm thick, the superstructure is 13 mm thick and the guns are protected by 10 mm of armor.
Personal opinion:
A Kléber. With the same guns as Colbert. And with Defensive AA Fire. Where can I sign to get it now seriously? Of course, compared to Kléber, she loses a fair amount of range and won’t be able to citadel cruisers except for rare occasions while her sister-ship can easily do that. However, she trades all of this for an amazing DPM and also for the ability to defend herself against carriers.
Now, I just wish her anti-air was making some sort of sense…
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