Once you learn to play keep away and can lead a target comfortably? You're good to go. Neat! I'd give her a Simple rating but she's too darned fragile and long-range gunnery does take some getting used to. If said new-fish is more inclined to sit back and shoot from the A-line, then Champagne will reward them with some semi-reliable damage. Skill Ceiling: Low / MODERATE / High / ExtremeĬhampagne's game play is pretty comfortable for an inexperienced player provided they can steer away from any impulse to move up to the front lines. Skill Floor: Simple / CASUAL / Challenging / Difficult One fewer charges of her Repair Party than most battleships. Small main battery with poor overall DPM potential. Thin overall structural plate with 32mm upper hull and deck and only 25mm on her bow and stern (!). Small hit point pool for a tier VIII battleship. Very fast and very agile, handling more like a fat heavy cruiser than a battleship. Good gun handling with a 6º/s turret rotation rate. Very high fire chance per shell at 49% per hit. Increased rate of fire with a 28.6 second reload. Very long ranged with a 25.02km base reach.Įxcellent gunnery accuracy over distance using battlecruiser dispersion and 2.0 sigma The ship itself has weakened structural armour and survivability over other tier VIII battleships. Summary: A long-range sniper armed with six, quick firing 406mm guns that have improved accuracy and penetration.

Let's go into why this ship (and others like her) earn so much ire. Performance not-withstanding, the argument has been made that she's the worst thing in the history of ever and not good for the game.

Like the abomination known as Cheshire, she simply is not put on sale very often. Well, according to my contacts at Wargaming she has neither been removed nor is she over-performing. Like Enterprise before her, Champagne's sale window has been exceedingly brief which begs the question if she has been removed for over-performing or not. She has been locked in the vault since then, available only through lucky drops through Supercontainers. Form June 26th to July 10th, 2020 and from October 10th until 16th, 2020.

Please be aware that her performance may change in the future.īehold the Imperator NIkolai I of the French battleship line. To the best of my knowledge, the statistics discussed in this review are current as of patch 0.10.3. This ship was provided to me by Wargaming for review purposes at no cost to myself I did not pay to get access to this ship. The following is a review of Champagne, the tier VIII French premium battleship.

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