Marseille has the strengths of having very strong guns, good concealments and mobility as well as the advantageous main battery placement (when she isn’t kiting). Hidden armor protection inside the stern:
Overall height (keel to the highest point on the ship)ġ39 mm/ on an Mle 1938 mount 139 mm/ in a turretĭetectability After Firing Main Guns in Smokeģ x 3 330 mm/ in a turret The middle turret can rotate at 360°Ĥ x 3 139 mm/ in a turret 6 x 2 139 mm/ on an Mle 1938 mountĢ x 4 40 mm Bofors on a Mk.2 mount 8 x 2 40 mm Bofors on a Mk.1 mountįront and rear armor protection of the middle section: The ship is thinly protected for a large cruiser but in return, she gets good concealment and, good agility, especially thanks to the Engine Boost consumable.įor the classic reminder, this is a ship in testing, anything can change so don’t look at her like she would already be released. Her armament is reinforced by a heavy secondary battery with improved dispersion similar to Massachusetts or Schlieffen. She suffers from a long main battery reload time and one of the worst cruiser dispersion but it is compensated by a Main Battery Reload Booster consumable. 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 So yeah… 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. Soooooo… In terms of Frankenstein Monster made in Wargaming, I think that Marseille takes the cake.
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