In terms of in-game characteristics, Marseille is armed with some of the biggest guns in the game for a cruiser with all turrets located at the front of the ship.

Size comparison of Tier X large cruisers – Credits to Ch0m1n Long story short, it’s basically one of the worst designs Wargaming came up with so far. Why on God’s green Earth does it have a superstructure straight from the 1920s? It just makes no sense at all when at this period, you already had French ships appearing with more modern superstructure like the Algérie or the Dunkerque-class. Last nail on the coffin, we are talking about a ship with armaments and design decisions from the mid to late 1930s. To this already odd mix, they added the same 330 mm guns as on the Dunkerque-class but that’s not all! They also decided to give it a fairly cursed secondary battery by taking the triple 152 mm secondaries from the Richelieu-class and then using 138.6 mm guns on them. This early design had the same turret placement as the Nelson-class battleships but with 380 mm guns. This ship is a big mishmash of the 17 500 tons battlecruiser design with a preliminary design from the Richelieu-class battleships. In terms of Frankenstein Monster made in Wargaming, I think that Marseille takes the cake. So… yeah, they are trying to squeeze us dry on this one. When it comes to Marseille, she will be available in the usual consecutive bundles that you can buy with the accumulated tokens, and obviously, she will require you to spend doubloons if you ever want to get the ship early. At least though, all the bundles outside of the Brest and Toulon ones give the same amount of tokens so there are only 2 important bundles to worry about. I don’t think that I will be alone in saying it but… that’s a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit too many bundles.

As you can see in the picture below, this time, there will be a grand total of 62 bundles to open with each of them costing 1 000 doubloons. Cherbourg will be obtainable for free as the final reward of a mission chain.Īs for Brest, she will be available in the random bundles alongside Toulon. Soooooo… just like with every new branches now, the French cruisers will be first introduced through an early access event. However, I will also talk about the previous ships Cherbourg and Brest. For the occasion, it’s time to have a look at what we are dealing with and if they are worth grinding for.Īs usual, I will only be covering the tier X of the branch, in this case, the incredibly ugly Marseille. Ladies and Gentlemen, the French large cruisers will soon be released.

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