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Roussillon: Review of the new French Tier IX Premium Battleship | World of Warships
Review of the new French tier IX premium battleship Roussillon. The ship is fast but has weak armor. The guns are capricious, and the accuracy varies. Overall, the ship is rated as slightly below average, generating frustration, but with the potential to be used in the right situations.
1. ⚓️ Introduction to Roussillon: Fast battleship with armor problems
- ✅ Roussillon is the latest tier IX premium battleship.
- ⚠️ This ship won't suit everyone, and you can safely skip it.
- ⚠️ It's fast but has weak armor.
00:00 - 00:31
1. ⚓️ Introduction to Roussillon: Fast battleship with armor problems
- ✅ Roussillon is the latest tier IX premium battleship.
- ⚠️ This ship won't suit everyone, and you can safely skip it.
- ⚠️ It's fast but has weak armor.
00:34 - 03:30
2. 🛡️ Roussillon's armor, artillery, and secondary armament parameters
- ✅ Armor: 25 mm amidships, 32 mm on the bow and stern.
- ✅ It's hard to citadel, but penetrations and HE hurt.
- ✅ HP: 72450 HP.
- ✅ Torpedo protection: 44%.
- ✅ Artillery: Three triple 406 mm guns with a reload time of 31.7 s and a range of 23.4 km.
- ✅ Secondary armament: Three twin 152 mm guns and 12 twin 100 mm guns (poor parameters).
03:31 - 04:45
3. 💨 Mobility and equipment: Speed, boosters, and "Verve" perk
- ✅ Base speed: 33.6 knots (pretty good for a battleship).
- ✅ Turning radius: 910 m.
- ✅ Rudder shift time: 16.6 s.
- ✅ Speed boost: +15%.
- ✅ Reload boost: -50%.
- ✅ Repair party: 434 HP/s for 30.8 s.
- ✅ Spotting aircraft (interchangeable with fighter).
- ✅ Important captain perk: Verve (thanks to it and the boost, speed above 40 knots).
- ✅ Equipment specialist (shortening the reload of the speed boost and the main battery boost).
04:46 - 05:57
4. 🎯 Gameplay: Using speed and fighting at range
- ✅ 25 mm on the bow and stern can ruin many plans, especially at closer range.
- ✅ Thanks to the speed, you can reposition depending on the situation in the battle.
- ✅ Battleship created for fighting at longer ranges.
05:58 - 07:05
5. 💥 AP problems and target selection: Frustration at close range
- ⚠️ Classic French AP has very high penetration, which causes overpenetrations at closer range.
- ⚠️ You have to aim mega low and count on luck.
- ⚠️ The ship generates a lot of frustration at close range.
- ✅ Choose hard targets (the harder the target, the greater the chance of getting a pen, and maybe even a citadel).
07:06 - 08:41
6. 🔫 Capricious guns and armor: Accuracy and susceptibility to damage
- ⚠️ The guns are very capricious (once they make nice salvos, and then they just outline the opponent).
- ⚠️ You need to spend a minimum of 5000 doubloons in the shipyard.
- ✅ Good torpedo bulge.
- ⚠️ 25 mm hurts.
- ⚠️ It goes in the bow and stern.
- ⚠️ Showing a angled front is a bad idea.
08:42 - 10:10
7. 🔄 Tactics and adaptation to battle: Artillery reload and mobility
- ✅ Main battery reload allows you to save yourself in some situations.
- ⚠️ AP is mega capricious.
- ✅ Possibility to switch to flanks.
- ✅ You can use speed to help the flank.
- ✅ Ship for playing at longer ranges.
10:11 - 11:36
8. ⚖️ Comparison and evaluation: Champagne at tier IX and overall ship rating
- ✅ A bit of a developmental version of Champagne.
- ⚠️ Rating: 4.5/10 (slightly below average).
- ⚠️ You can do something with it, but it's not amazing.
- ⚠️ Generates frustration.
- ⚠️ If you don't like ships that have their quirks, I advise you to avoid it.
11:39 - 12:47
9. ➕ Roussillon's minuses and pluses: Summary of disadvantages and advantages
- ✅ Pros:
- Reload boost.
- Speed.
- Ability to react to what is happening in the battle.
- ⚠️ Cons:
- Armor.
- AP (both a plus and a minus).
- Capricious guns.