This can be permanently boosted by mounting Main Battery Modification 3 upgrade and temporarily improved with her Main Battery Reload Booster, which reduces her reload time by 50% and allows her to fire off two salvoes within a short time.Īnother unique feature of the French large cruisers is their surprisingly powerful secondary guns. Like her predecessor, Brest suffers a long main battery reload, sitting at 28 seconds base. Along with her excellent AP shell performance, Brest also has usable high explosive (HE) ammunition with a best-in-class fire chance amongst Tier IX tech tree cruisers of 35%. Brest’s guns are arranged in two quadruple-barrel turrets that boast decent firing angles (a few degrees worse than Cherbourg) with a relatively long turret traverse, taking 36 seconds to rotate 180°. These large guns benefit from high armor-piercing (AP) shell damage (9700 HP), excellent firing range (18.2km), and the ability to fire all guns directly over her bow. These guns can overmatch 23mm of armor, making her a serious threat to super-light cruisers, like the British and Pan-Asian light cruisers.īrest uses the same large cruiser dispersion (between that of a battleships and a cruisers) and 1.8 sigma as VIII Cherbourg.

Due to her relatively high shell velocities and flat shell arcs, Brest’s gunnery can be very comfortable. Her armor-piercing (AP) shells perform similarly to her predecessor, but the increased caliber comes with an increase in damage and a significant increase in penetration at all ranges, allowing her to deal significant damage to even heavily armored targets. As far as large cruisers go, her eight 330mm guns are among the largest in-game, second only to the 380mm guns of IX Siegfried and X Sevastopol. Like Cherbourg before her, Brest’s performance focuses almost entirely on her large main battery guns. Wielding eight 330mm main battery guns in two superfiring turrets mounted on her bow, her battleship-esque firepower poses a significant threat to ships of all sizes while she lacks a battleship’s survivability. Tier IX Brest is the second ship in the French large cruiser tech tree and a worthy successor of VIII Cherbourg. 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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