...and now we all understand why guided weapons are the solution in naval warfare..😂😂😂

Good Lord Thicc ship is thicc

Not quite up to Anglo-American standards, eh?

AHH! Drach gets back to a Predreadnaught streak. It's definitely Christmas early

Troublemakers based out of Malta.

Or, what happens if you mixe steam punk with a concept for an alien ship.

Hotel Hoche must have been an assignment to avoid in the Marine Nationale or laugh about

I keep hoping WarThunder will add the hotel class pre-dreadnaught. Things were just more interesting before Dreadnaught figured out the min-max and everything became more or less cookie cutter.

French pre dreadnought almost as stable as the people designing them.

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Seems a bit of a waste to sink such a vessel as a target ship, would have thought it could have been scrapped and the material re-used ?

An alternative universe without the Dreadnought being developed and French ship design becoming the new norm for the future would be so great.

Ugh...lee. 😮

seriously the french made some of the most ugly ships ever at this period

I look at that ship and think, "Busy! Very, very busy!!"

Drach please a video on anything portugese , il take anything even a carrack

It looks like someone smashed three random auto parts together and they happened to float.

this ship is so ugly that it's beautiful... like horrible car crash... you just can't look away.

I saw another chap's video on this vessel. He kept pronouncing the name "Hock-uh." It was...distracting.

4:10 France really knows how to make hull cute <3 (infamous abandon order) idc as it's not ship benchmark like UK

At least when we design this ship, we were sure that she'd never be able to hit anything in combat and that the fight would no be farther than in harbor it self because this ship would never be able to handle any swell 🤣🤣🤣 Someone in the Navy even asked "Do you think that the decisive battle will take place in Toulon harbor ??" 🤣

"hoche"? More like "moche" amirite

It looks like a totally capsized hull, that has had a weird amusement park built on the exposed bottom. 😢

Bad fire control.

5:14 FFS this kinda looks like my home town skyline 😳

Oh LAWD she comin'! That lady be THIIIIIIIICCC!

"This resulted in a unique ship" ahh the sarcasm is dripping here.

I don't know what the next review will be on, but it's going to be niiiice.

It's the Motel 6 of battleships.

Hale of fire weapon!!!

Well, Hotels Should be in the Mediterranean...

Ok, now I’m thinking that in my ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ alternate history universe the MN sailing Hoche off of the Texas coast was one of the atrocities that the Texans will never forgive the French for, and the reason Texas started modernizing its navy in the early 1900’s. 😂

150th, 21 December 2024

The French are famous for their beautiful art and architecture. Why did they have such Ucking Fugly military designs? Most everything I see from the late 19th century until the early 1950s in military equipent, ships, planes and tanks had their own special weirdness. Oui monsieur, eet eez required by government to make orrible looking war machines. Thees weel have ze enemy either go mad weeth fear or, more likely, paralyze zem weeth ze laughter.

That's one more reason why navies gave up on gun-armed ships. At extreme ranges way too much is left to chance and luck.

I still want to see you do the USS Mississippi BB-23 and the USS Idaho BB-24.

I wish you could get a model of the French tumble home battleships

I spy the turret ship from UAD

An unique ship, from France. Right. That never happens. Unique, French word for @&$”** ship design?

Funny, at the end of its service the French navy finally put the old hag out of their misery.

I would love to see a movie about the good admiral and the Battle of Tsushima.

It would have made a awesome museum ship! Can you imagine getting a tour on the WTF Hoche?

What a wonderfully weird design! Almost looks like a steel foundry from outside. I love it!

Appreciate the discussion of accuracy of naval gunfire. I had often wondered about the accuracy of large naval guns and how that accuracy varies as the barrel heats up and it's internal dimensions change. And is bore erosion a factor?

That is well known, I suppose, but those 'funnily not-round' French calibers might be quite 'logical' in that French inch was 2.707 cm (vs British 2.54), and French 'old' pound was 489.5 grams (vs British 453.7) and there was in use for a short time (1812-1840) a metric pound of 500 grams.

Ultimate steam punk battleship design.

If beauty is indeed only skin deep, that ship sails around inside out. 😖

Looks like a large, slow, target.

It needs some massive paddlewheels right under the wing-guns to complete the Ultimate Steampunk look..😆