Alsace, the French Iowa class BB in World of Warships Blitz

Ship discussion and an interesting live game commentary

[@Bis_Lin]

😂nice game

[@lesvickroy6537]

I started playing my French BBs the same as my British BBs. HE at range then AP at 8km. Seems to work for me anyway. I will be interested to see what you think.

[@TheSoulfire73]

I knew someone had told me that before in the comments! I haven’t tried it out on Alsace yet but I’ve played a couple of games in Repub like that with sketchy results.

[@enchantedbananas]

I did last season Ranked exclusively in the Alsace bc i decided grinding for Repub in bot games was lame, and i don't think i've had a better season than that. I peaked at #10 i think, but finished somewhere in the top 50, I don't understand why so many people goon on stealth in slot three though, it's only good for about 30 seconds til your spotted anyway bc there's planes and dds everywhere. My Alsace build is Precision, Accel, and Steering, and this baby is basically a giant henri or something, this line is a line of midrange brawling battlecruisers that benefit from turning off autoaim. Play a whole game in Normandie with auto-aim all the way off that thing slaps, Lyon too. Lyon can delete a chapayev in one salvo if you get its broadside at midrange, but only if you turn off autoaim, it's super bugged on these ships and the shells will pull towards the bottom and splash harmlessly in the water.

[@enchantedbananas]

Also to answer your question, I know it's super unpopular with certain CCs who think they have everything figured out (cough cough slai) but I do think WG is trying to steer the FR BB line more towards HE until you reach the ideal brawling ranges, they inexplicably buffed the HE on all the battleships last update, and french tech tree HE is really good most of the ships have a more balanced HE to AP damage, and certain ships like Colbert and Marceau it really doesn't make much of a difference which you shoot. The Marseille line is the same way, those ships can slap around BBs but not from range, in the opening stages you want to set fires to burn up as many damacons as you can with 13% fire chance, once you into ranges where your speed and steering come more into play then Marseille can turn any battleship into its bitch.

[@TheSoulfire73]

Concealment is a pretty solid skill to have on some BB’s. I like it to help get into a decent position to start the match. It’s a bigger help in tournament settings IMO. I’ll run it on any BB there, just to help get into position.

[@darrianwilcox]

It looks to play and move similar to the Iowa! Is the line worth the grind mate? Upto t8 with the st Vincent line after completing the san martin line, but struggling to think of what to grind next!

[@TheSoulfire73]

I’ll say this, Repub is tricky. I really have to watch myself or I’ll put myself in a bad position with the ship. I can see that the ship is pretty good but I’m not exactly synchronizing with it. If I’m thinking when I play it, easy 90-110k games. If I’m not paying enough attention, 40k.

[@raven2kf]

I'm having traumatic flashbacks of grinding this ship when it didn't have the rapid reload

[@TheSoulfire73]

The tier 6 and 7 kept me from grinding the line out so long that it worked out for me.

[@raven2kf]

@@TheSoulfire73 I've been playing Lyon recently and find I'm having really decent games in it. It's squishy as hell but with 16 guns it hurts everything even if it is a shotgun. L

[@TheSoulfire73]

@@raven2kf Once I came back to it Lyon, it wasn’t terrible if you were careful. Which is a lesson that I needed to learn about this line.