History Characters / WorldOfWarshipsFrance

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

* JackOfAllStats: 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.

The Marine Nationale / Free French Navy (Forces navales françaises libres) was announced as the eighth faction in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships'', 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.

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In-game, Le Terrible takes the form of an enermous destroyer with breath-taking speed and massive guns, but no smoke generator.
* {{Irony}}: Le Terrible's name is often a source of jokes from people who think the ship is awful. .
* KillItWithFire: One her redeeming features is a base fire chance of ''ten percent.'' That's the same as ''Daring'' and you don't need to IFHE (which reduces fire chance) on Le Terrible.

* {{Irony}}: And what a perfectly fitting name for an awful ship that is clearly NOT a Destroyer in any adequate sense of the word.

* PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage: Where to start even...
** The firing arcs of the main turrets are jagged and inconsistent due to poor placement which means you have to expose a large broadside to the enemy to utilize all of your firepower, increasing the chance of receiving damage.
** 7 second reload for the main guns is UNACCEPTABLE by Destroyer standards.
** A Cruiser-standard turret traverse speed really hurts this ship's ability to switch targets and go knife-fighting with other Destroyers.
** Awful stealth rating: Even when the ship is fully optimized for concealment, a minimum detection range of 7.1km means you can't get into a good position for a torpedo or gun run. And if there are any Radar-equipped hostile ships in play, you can just forget about trying to attack at all.
** Low muzzle velocity and wide shot dispersion results in poor gunnery performance at long-range.
** Torpedoes are roughly equal to German Torpedoes, meaning that they're ''astoundingly weak'' for a T8 Destroyer.
** One of biggest reasons on why the ship is so flawed is because Le Terrible is excessively reliant on its main gimmick: Reload Boosters and Speed Boosters.
** PointDefenceless: No AA Guns whatsoever. Much like the Arkansas Beta.
** Above average hull-size makes it hard to avoid getting hit with ''Battleship AP''.
** All in all, Le Terrible is a good ''racing ship'' with a 55kt top speed, okay rudder shift, and an okay turning radius. But it simply cannot perform as a gunboat or a torpedo boat. Even the Japanese Gun Destroyers, or any other Destroyer for that matter, can put it to shame.
*** At the last minute La Terrible had all of these stats buffed pretty much across the board, even gaining some AA guns. Unfortunately she's still rather lack luster in most areas and paid for the buffs by ''losing a smoke screen.'' This makes her the only DD in the game to not at least have the option and it doesn't trade it for healing like the late tier Russians do.
* UnfortunateNames: While its intended mean "The terrible (thing for the enemy to face)", jokes about the ship's under-performance write themselves.

** However after ''Alsace'' was nerfed people are starting to appreciate Republique more. Her guns are insane for one. They are very accurate and have the highest muzzle pen in the game. She might not have a raw alpha or raw dpm to match her peers, but her guns are so reliable that she effectively is competitive.

* UnfortunateNames: While its intended mean "The terrible (thing for the enemy the face)", jokes about the ship's under-performance write themselves.

** Awful stealth rating: A minimum detection range of 7.1km means you can't get into a good position for a torpedo or gun run. And if there are any Radar-equipped hostile ships in play, you can just forget about trying to attack at all.

* GlassCannon: French Cruisers are armed with high damage guns but their low muzzle velocity restricts them to attacking at mid-range, and their pitifully weak armor means they will get killed quickly if someone so much as looks at them funny.

** Bad Gun placement means you have to expose a large broadside to the enemy to utilize all of your firepower, increasing the chance of receiving damage.

** Awful stealth rating: A minimum detection range of 7.1km means you can't get into a good position for a torpedo or gun run.
** Low muzzle velocity results in poor gunnery performance at long-range.

** Le Terrible is excessively reliant on its main gimmick: Reload Boosters and Speed Boosters.

** All in all, Le Terrible is a good ''racing ship'' with a 55kt top speed, okay rudder shift, and an okay turning radius. But it simply cannot perform as a gunboat or a torpedo boat. Even the Japanese Gun Destroyers can put it to shame.

** No AA Guns whatsoever. Much like the Arkansas Beta.

* GlassCannon: French Cruisers are armed with high damage guns but their low muzzle velocity restricts them to attacking at mid-range.

* FragileSpeedster: Can reach 39 knots WITHOUT the speed booster the later ships in the line get. Even for a French cruiser her survivability is bad for tier; she has less armor than the same-tier American ''destroyer'' USS ''Nicholas''. Though ironically her armor is ''so'' bad that it's actually a bit of an advantage: citadel penetrations are rare because most AP shells will go through one side and out the other for an overpen before triggering the shell's fuse.

* FragileSpeedster: Can reach 39 knots WITHOUT the speed booster the later ships in the line get. Even for a French cruiser her survivability is bad for tier; she has less armor than the same-tier American ''destroyer'' USS ''Nicholas''.

* {{BFG}} Has the largest guns fitted to a cruiser, save the Graf Spee.

* AchillesHeel: Richelieu and subsequent designs use are covered in a 32mm layer of armor everywhere but the turrets. While layers of armor under this are quite effective at preventing citadel penetrations, It leaves the ships quite vulnerable to He spam.

* 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.

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