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The Marine Nationale / Free French Navy (Forces navales françaises libres) will be announced in a future update as the eighth faction, with the first ship being the tier 6 premium battleship ''Dunkerque''. The French cruiser line is scheduled for summer 2017. The French battleship line was released in March 2018.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Players could obtain Bretange through Richelieu from a mission unlocked via a container one update before the French battleships' proper introduction.

* PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage: When the Dunkerque was put up for sale, several reviewers tested the Battleship and then discouraged people from buying it due to it stats which were astoundingly bad and markedly inferior in comparison to almost every other Battleship in the game.
** However she is considered the top choice during tier 6 scenario modes mostly thanks tho her speed.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Though players who originally bought ''Dunkerque'' will be familiar with her layout, no other ship in the French line has all its guns mounted on the bow.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Those lucky enough to get a ''Richelieu'' mission out of a crate have managed to bypass the majority of the French BB line and could theoretically simply buy ''Alsace'' the day the rest of the line was released without having to use gold for free xp.

* MasterOfNone: Except for being temporarily faster and having the best standard AA[[note]]However in practice Montana will still beat her in AA since American battleships don't have to sacrifice accuracy for AA.[[/note]] she is pretty mediocre. Despite a significantly faster reload than her piers her low number of guns mean she has a lower DPM than any other tier X BB. She also combines this with pathetic armor vulnerable to He pens and long range citadel hits.
* PowerUpLetDown: She trades the rather impressive Alpha (bow tanking Alpha in Richelieu's case) of the previous French battleships and trades it for slightly better DPM tier for tier with eight rapid fire guns. Most French BB players would have preferred a version of Alsace with more or bigger guns instead so they could still assassinate unaware ships, but instead Republique has the worst Alpha at its tier.

* LightningBruiser: Quite unusually for the French. She is the only tier seven cruiser with anything close to proper armor and is the fastest of them with her speed boost going. Don't expect to fight BBs solo tough.

The Marine Nationale / Free French Navy (Forces navales françaises libres) will be announced in a future update as the eighth faction, with the first ship being the tier 6 premium battleship ''Dunkerque''. The French cruiser line is scheduled for summer 2017.

* Anti-Air: Starting with Lyon, French battleships get very good anti-air. Lyon herself does however concentrate this in a rather small number of mounts.

* {{BFG}} Its 165mm guns are the largest fitted to a tier 2 cruiser.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, it has nothing to do with the US tier 3 St Louis.

* LightingBruiser: Again by cruiser standards.
* JackOfAllStatus: her strength is in her versatility. She boasts neither the best DPM, raw survivability, or AA but she is adequate in all of these aspects. However she got the speed and shell characteristics to keep enemies at a distance where she can reliably hurt them and they cannot.

* FragileSpeedster: Can reach 39 knots WITHOUT the speed booster the later ships in the line get.

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* LightingBruiser: By french standards anyway. It's the 1st ship in the line to have anything resembling armor.

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