[Development] Pre-order: Jean Bart — The Last French Battleship

[boromas_1]

I cannot sleep without knowing what we had coming for France.

[UNN_Daedalos]

sure hope it won’t ruin your summer vacation, cause you’re gonna have to wait til september to find out X)

[Morvran]

@Smin1080p_WT

Jean Bart will indeed be the only French Naval vessel this major update now.

Do you mean only bluewater? Given the Glaive?

[Smin1080p_WT]

@Morvran_

Glaive

Glaive is an event vehicle: [Event] Get Glaive in the Marine Gendarme Event! - News - War Thunder

[Morvran]

Oh, then does this have the wrong title then?

[Development] Marine Gendarme: Glaive

Glaive is a French Trident class patrol boat originally built in the 1960s as the French Navy was redefining the strategic value of smaller, more agile attack craft in its fleet. Glaive: A Premium Patrol Boat for France at Rank III At a glance: 40 mm Bofors and .50 machine guns Good mobility Huge profile Premium bonuses Vehicle History▼ The Trident-class patrol boat was a class of fast patrol boats developed by France in the 1960s during a period of significant naval transition sh…

Forgot it was an event and just read the title.

[Smin1080p_WT]

Thats the blog for the vehicle. The event itself is here: [Event] Get Glaive in the Marine Gendarme Event!

[Morvran]

Yep, but other event vehicles dont have “development” in the title.

EFV
F-106
KV-8

[Twisted_Oddball]

North Carolina - Premium

Unpopular opinion, but either the USS Washington or NC herself should be a premium. I would prefer a late war NC in 1944/45 config for premium, but the Washington in 1942 config would likely be more palatable.

I know all 13 naval players are coming with their pitchforks, but idc. I only started playing because your changes to arcade (the ones they are still bitching about) made it possible for me to actually enjoy it like I used to enjoy WoWS back when it was a game, not an esport.

Thanks.

[N0N4M34093-live]

is there any plan on premium for italy on the plane side this update?
thanks for the answer

[JuneQT]

the US already has a Rank VI Premium though, the only naval nations that don’t are Italy and France. And we’re on the discussion forum for the announcement of France’s rank VI premium.

They don’t need another one that’s just flatout Better. Maybe as a squadron or event vehicle, I guess, but the main deficit I can see in the US tree is it doesn’t get a second Iowa-class like how Japan and Italy and France all get two of their Top Tiers (then again, maybe the Iowa really is just so good it wouldn’t be balanced to have two)

[굴러온]

@JuneQT

I guess, but the main deficit I can see in the US tree is it doesn’t get a second Iowa-class like how Japan and Italy and France all get two of their Top Tiers (then again, maybe the Iowa really is just so good it wouldn’t be balanced to have two)

But they will, as Iowa class is too famous, and there are not much battleship left for Gaijin, and later Iowa class and earlier Iowa class has little difference in armor

[Cloudzy26160]

@JuneQT

the US tree is it doesn’t get a second Iowa-class like how Japan and Italy and France all get two of their Top Tiers

Yeah, but at least Iowa is playable unlike the Yamato and Musashi, would you rather 1 decent ship or 2 dog water floating bombs?

[UNN_Daedalos]

@Smin1080p_WT

Regarding some of your questions on top BR premium ships. Jean Bart won’t be on the current top naval BR. Whilst she does have some differences over her sisters in the tree, she also has less crew.

I mean i get the whole crew thing, but isn’t soyuz one of the battleships with the least crew at top tier with around ~1650 ?
It doesn’t exactly make it a bad top tier ship (understatement of the year, i know)

Point is if Jean Bart has less crew but better reload and better secondaries, i don’t know if calling it worse than Richelieu or Clemenceau (which also happens to have less crew) is justified

[굴러온]

If it is 1200-ish following Suez Crisis, then it would be problem