Added to the Reload Booster and her excellent ballistics, and Jean Bart can be downright brutal to enemy ships caught making a positioning mistake. Even though they are only 380mm guns - and thus unable to overmatch a number of high tier cruisers - the penetration of her shells are more than enough to punish broadside ships. In addition, she retains the high velocity shells found in other high-tier French battleships. They have a 26 second reload, generally better shell groupings, and access to a special Main Battery Reload Booster consumable which halves main battery reload time for twenty seconds. All of her secondaries are also capped to a 10.6 km range, unlike Alsace and République.Īspects of Jean Bart’s hull aren't the ship's major draw, though that honor instead goes to her main battery guns, which provide a massive increase in offensive firepower when compared to those of Richelieu. The mounts themselves are relatively weak and are regularly knocked out the course of a battle, and while there are quite a number of them, they are largely composed of small, 100mm guns - a caliber unable to penetrate the vast majority of targets at Tier IX. Additionally, while Jean Bart’s secondary battery looks good on paper, in practice it's somewhat unwieldy. Jean Bart can find herself somewhat vulnerable in certain situations, as heavy cruisers and light cruisers using the Inertia Fuse for HE Shells skill can easily deal full damage to almost any part of the ship. While her base health pool is an improvement over Richelieu’s best hull, it still falls somewhat short when compared to her other Tier IX counterparts, which can lead to some issues when compounded with the relative thinness of her armor.

Jean Bart sits on the low end of health points for Tier IX battleships. Sitting a tier higher than her sister ship, it would be unusual if Jean Bart weren't stronger in some form or another in Jean Bart’s case, this means a general, all-around upgrade with a few unusual quirks to set her out from the crowd.

Jean Bart is generally viewed as better Richelieu, and for the most part, this is true. 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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