When built for secondaries, Cherbourg’s secondary guns can pose a significant threat to destroyers that stray too close.Ĭherbourg’s armor leaves a lot to be desired. Cherbourg has numerous secondary turrets, and while their high explosive shell penetration is modest, they have improved accuracy. It’s not all good news for Cherbourg’s guns, though with battleship-sized guns comes a battleship’s reload: 29 seconds! This can be temporarily improved through the use of a Main Battery Reload Booster, which will reduce her reload time by 50% and allow her to fire off two salvoes within a short time.Īnother unique feature of the French large cruisers is their surprisingly powerful secondary gun battery. Along with her excellent AP shell performance, Cherbourg also has usable high explosive (HE) ammunition.

Cherbourg’s guns are arranged in two quadruple-barrel turrets that boast excellent firing angles but modest turret traverse speeds. This can lead to some inaccurate - and occasionally frustrating - salvoes. She also has a lower sigma value, which means that the shells don’t tend to group closely together. This means that her shells will have relatively tight horizontal and vertical dispersion when compared to most standard battleship guns, but worse than standard heavy and light cruisers. However, while Cherbourg is classified as a cruiser, her guns feature battlecruiser dispersion. With these large guns comes the benefits of high armor-piercing (AP) shell damage, high shell velocity, excellent firing range, and the ability to fire all guns directly over her bow. At Tier VIII, a cruiser with a main battery of eight 305mm guns is a fearsome prospect. Fast, maneuverable, and sporting a heavy main battery, she performs the intermediary role between a cruiser and battleship perfectly.Ĭherbourg’s major defining feature is her massive guns for a cruiser.

Tier VIII Cherbourg is the first ship in the French large cruiser tech tree, splitting off the heavy cruiser line at Tier VII Algérie. 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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