It has no smoke, it has the highest torpedo detection range in the entire game, and they slow the torps down 6kts? ugh. What is the actual point of playing it now over Le Terrible at tier 6? Le Terrible is faster, has better matchmaking, the torps are only 5kts slower than La Fanatsque now, and they have .6 better concealment which is huge. What is going on?
fair trade imo
After a lot of 20-30k games and 1 killed/crippled enemy dd later I have come to ask for help, I need more damage. It would be useful to get a sequence of priorities/duties. Usually I try to kill a dd and end up crippling myself.
I am grinding 4 DD lines at the moment. I am on the Kagero, Lightening, Oland and La Fantasque. I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to play her.
Can anyone provide tips / builds to help my gameplay? β are the captain skills going to be the same up to the Kleber?
Much appreciated!
I'm absolutely terrible at fighting this monster and I can't tell if it's because I suck at fighting them or because it's as powerful I seem to think it is.
Is anyone here in the same boat as me?
Edit: Thanks for the help everyone!
She has 1.
Hey guys. I love the βLe Fantasqueβ but Iβd love a nice tier 6 moneymaker DD and have auboyneau at 16/3. Is the le terrible worth it?
Is it worth to buy Le Terrible when Le Fantasque is a very similar ship? Stats says also that Fantasque is much better but im not sure because the premium status of Le Terrible. So what are your thoughts?
With the recent update came the full release of the French DDs and Le Fantasque. Having played about 50 battles in her, I am ready to review her and give my opinions.
Offense:
5x1 139mm guns. Despite being hailed by WG as the "Gunboat of T7" alongside Fletcher, her guns are actually very underwhelming in their current state. The base reload time on these guns is a long 6 seconds. Even with the 3 million reload mod, the reload on her guns is cut down to 5.3 seconds, which is still longer than the 5 second reload of Le Terrible and Vacquelin. This means that she has one of the worst DPM at not only T7, but also at T6. The turret traverse with the reload mod is also over 20 seconds, which means that they will lag behind when Fantasque executes full turns. She has relatively good range on these guns at 11 km when upgraded, but still isn't nearly enough to let her do the "run and gun" playstyle since most ships can still easily hit you at that range. These guns still have some good points. Their ballistics are excellent with both fast shell velocity and flat arcs. On top of that, she gets access to 1 charge of reload booster, which when activated, increases her DPM to almost that of Fletcher's DPM for 15 seconds. Overall, despite her excellent ballistics, Le Fantasque's guns are at best decent for her tier. That 1 charge of reload booster isn't enough to offset the downsides of the guns, and once it has been used, your poor DPM will lose to every DD at T7 in a gunfight with the exception of IJN DDs. She can out trade other DDs pretty well at long ranges (7km and above), but given how most DDs can get almost 5km of concealment, engagement ranges are actually so short that DPM is usually far superior to good ballistics.
Her torpedoes are very good with a 90 second reload, very good speed (80 knts with build) and high damage at 18k per torp. She has 9 of these screecher torpedoes, although you have to turn your entire ship around if you want to use all 9 of them. Her torpedo firing arcs are good which makes rushing BBs much easier. The only real downside to them is the bad torpedo detectability at 1.8km, but the speed of the torpedoes makes up for this. Le Fantasque has excellent torpedoes overall.
Defense:
Le Fantasque has has a good health pool of 19k when upgraded along with the special French DD saturation mechanic. This allows her to sustain longer under fire than other DDs. It's all downhill from here sadly. No smoke means that you cannot dise
... keep reading on reddit β‘This gun boat couldn't shoot its way out of a wet paper bag, generally when advance in a video game by levels or in this case tier the higher the better but not in this instance the tier 6 is far superior to the tier 7 just in the gun category the reload gets worse and so does the reliability and gun accuracy the only saving grace of the le fantasque is the high speed torpedoes the 1 main battery reload booster that come with the tier7 le fantasque is like putting lipstick on a pig because the accuracy of the guns is so bad the majority of the shots will not hit the target and they only give the ship 1.
