Instead, she must angle to show some broadside in order to fire all her guns at a target. When comparing Brest to Marseille, it’s obvious that the latter is unable to fire all guns directly over her bow. In practice, this means that she tends to hit what she shoots at, but frustrating salvoes are woefully common. First of all, she has large cruiser dispersion (between that of a battleship and a cruiser) coupled with 1.8 sigma. It’s not all good news for Marseille’s main battery guns. Due to their impressive caliber, Marseille’s guns can overmatch the bow and stern plating on super-light cruisers like X Austin, and the British and Pan-Asian light cruisers. The relatively high shell velocities of both her AP and HE and flat shell arcs make her gunnery comfortable, especially for players familiar with battleship gameplay. Her 36-second turret traverse is slow for a cruiser, but she has an incredible base main battery range of 19.6 km that allows her to keep opponents at arm’s length. She also has usable high explosive (HE) ammunition with the highest fire chance of any Tier X cruiser: 35%. The inherent high penetration values of her shells allows her to deal significant damage to even heavily armored targets like battleships. Her armor-piercing (AP) shells deal impressive damage (9700 HP), giving her the heaviest broadside of any Tier X tech tree cruiser. These guns are the largest of any tech tree cruiser, and second only to the 380 mm guns of premium cruiser IX Siegfried and special cruiser X Sevastopol. They are the same caliber as those found on Brest, but Marseille has an extra gun barrel, and they are spread evenly between three triple turrets instead of Brest’s two quad turrets. Like VIII Cherbourg and IX Brest, Marseille’s performance is all about her powerful, hard-hitting 330 mm main battery guns.
The pinnacle of the French large cruiser line, Tier X Marseille carries nine lethal 330 mm main battery guns perfect for fulfilling her role as a ‘cruiser killer.’ What she lacks in armor she makes up for with speed, being able to reposition and control engagements with ease. The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's "Actual AA DPS".
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