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. Although aggressive use of their small flotilla of submarines dealt an initial heavy blow to the Japanese, the Dutch Navy would once again have its back broken in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942.Ladies and Gentlemen, the French large cruisers will soon be released. Fortunately, most of the Dutch fleet was located in the Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia), protecting the resource-rich archipelago, but that would eventually come under attack by the Japanese on 8 December 1941. While the Netherlands managed to remain neutral in World War I, doing so again in World War II would prove to be futile, with Germany sweeping through the Dutch homeland in a week on, giving the Kriegsmarine crucial submarine snorkel technology (known as the snuiver). Renamed to the Royal Netherlands Navy ( Koninklijke Marine) in 1905, the Great Depression hit Dutch commerce particularly hard, and the resulting budget cuts left the navy severely underfunded and underequipped. The 18th century onwards, however, saw their fortunes take a turn for the worse the failure to take the Philippines from the Spanish, Macau from the Portuguese, and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch war that ultimately led to the British breaking the back of the Dutch Navy at the Battle of Camperdown. In the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch war, the Dutch managed to gain great victories on the British and the French, mostly lead by the legendary admiral De Ruyter. Nevertheless, the 17th century saw the Dutch navy being at the zenith of its power, ushering in the Dutch golden age and being the only European power that was allowed to trade with Japan during her period of isolation (or “ sakoku”). Despite being one of the earliest European colonial empires, the Dutch Empire that followed after was far more interested in commerce rather than territorial expansion - a holdover from its mercantile origins - and as such rarely bothered themselves with taking inland territories, and their standing navy was small compared to that of other empires’. Originally a series of private charters defending the interests of the various merchants, trading guilds and local authorities, it would eventually coalesce into a unified fighting force in the Eighty Years’ War, fighting for their independence from Spanish rule. The colorful beginnings of the first independent Dutch navy are as unique as the empire it would eventually be tasked to protect. HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, Tier VIII cruiser
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