Normandie

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Normandie

Battleship | France | Tier VI

Tech Tree Position

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General

Research price42500 exp

Purchase price3,470,000

Hit Points44,700

Main Battery

340 mm/45 Mle 1912 in a turret3 х 4 pcs.

Rate of Fire2 shots/min.

Reload Time30 sec.

Rotation Speed4 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time45 sec.

Firing Range17.98 km.

Maximum Dispersion242 m.

HE Shell340 mm HE OEA Mle 1934

Maximum HE Shell Damage4,700

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell26 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity921 m./s.

HE Shell Weight431.8 kg.

AP Shell340 mm AP OPfK Mle 1930

Maximum AP Shell Damage9,500

Initial AP Shell Velocity780 m./s.

AP Shell Weight585 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

139 mm/55 Mle 1910 on a casemate mount18 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range5.6 km.

Rate of Fire6 shots/min.

Reload Time10 sec.

HE Shell139 mm HE OEA Mle 1910

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,000

Initial HE Shell Velocity840 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

Secondary Armament #2

90 mm/50 Mle 1926 on an Mle 1926 mount6 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range5.6 km.

Rate of Fire15 shots/min.

Reload Time4 sec.

HE Shell90 mm HE OEA Mle 1925

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,300

Initial HE Shell Velocity850 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell5 %

AA Defense

90 mm/50 Mle 1926 on an Mle 1926 mount6 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second16.2

. . . Firing Range3.99 km.

37 mm/50 Mle 1925 on a CA Mle 1925 mount12 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second19.2

. . . Firing Range3 km.

13.2 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1929 on a CAD Mle 1929 mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second14

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed28.03 knot

Turning Circle Radius640 m.

Rudder Shift Time18.8 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range15.71 km.

Air Detectability Range8.3 km.

Battle Levels

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13.9

Normandie

Battleship | France | Tier VI

Tech Tree Position

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General

Research price42500 exp

Purchase price3,470,000

Hit Points48,300

Main Battery

340 mm/45 Mle 1912 in a turret3 х 4 pcs.

Rate of Fire2 shots/min.

Reload Time30 sec.

Rotation Speed4 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time45 sec.

Firing Range19.78 km.

Maximum Dispersion242 m.

HE Shell340 mm HE OEA Mle 1934

Maximum HE Shell Damage4,700

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell26 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity921 m./s.

HE Shell Weight431.8 kg.

AP Shell340 mm AP OPfK Mle 1930

Maximum AP Shell Damage9,500

Initial AP Shell Velocity780 m./s.

AP Shell Weight585 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

139 mm/55 Mle 1910 on a casemate mount18 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range5.6 km.

Rate of Fire6 shots/min.

Reload Time10 sec.

HE Shell139 mm HE OEA Mle 1910

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,000

Initial HE Shell Velocity840 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

Secondary Armament #2

90 mm/50 Mle 1926 on an Mle 1930 mount6 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range5.6 km.

Rate of Fire15 shots/min.

Reload Time4 sec.

HE Shell90 mm HE OEA Mle 1925

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,300

Initial HE Shell Velocity850 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell5 %

AA Defense

90 mm/50 Mle 1926 on an Mle 1930 mount6 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second22.8

. . . Firing Range3.99 km.

37 mm/50 CAIL Mle 1933 on a CAD Mle 1933 mount6 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second13.8

. . . Firing Range3 km.

13.2 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1929 on a CAD Mle 1929 mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second14

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed29.5 knot

Turning Circle Radius640 m.

Rudder Shift Time13.4 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range15.71 km.

Air Detectability Range8.3 km.

Battle Levels

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VI

3,470,000

Normandie — French Tier VI battleship.

The first French battleship design with the main battery guns placed in three quadruple gun turrets. The construction of such turrets was driven by the desire to achieve maximum broadside firepower given the ship's limited size.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
340 mm/45 Mle 1912 in a turret	2	45	242	4,700	26	9,500		0	340,000

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Normandie (A)	44,700	12	360	3	6/18	4/12/6				0	340,000
Normandie (B)	48,300	12	360	3	6/18	6				12,500	900,000

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
PCA n° 6 Mle 1		0		0	260,000
PCA n° 6 Mle 2		0		6,500	640,000

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 107,000 hp	28		0	140,000
Propulsion: 112,000 hp	29.5		5,500	300,000

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4

Player Opinion

Performance

Warning: The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.
Refer to the in-game Port screens for more useful data.

As one of the fastest Tier VI battleships — aside from Dunkerque and Repulse — captains could be forgiven for considering Normandie a battlecruiser. She is arguably a better version of her premium counterpart Dunkerque, owing to her smaller profile, an extra main battery turret, better firing range, and better dispersion. She can easily chase down any retreating battleship and or cruiser ruthlessly, and give torpedo-based destroyers a hard run for their money. However, she is not without her own demerits.

Although Normandie is very fast and has firepower on par with her Tier VI counterparts, she also poorly armored. Her armor scheme is similar to British counterpart Queen Elizabeth: a thickly armored exterior with a somewhat poorly armored citadel, making long range engagements potentially disastrous, especially when facing off against large caliber guns (380mm and up) such as those of the aforementioned Queen Elizabeth or even Tier VII American battleship Colorado.

In addition to her somewhat weak armor, she also has very poor firing angles for all her turrets; she must expose a tremendous amount of her broadside armor just to able to fire the rearmost turret. However, Normandie’s fast rudder shift easily makes up for this handicap, and captains who time their shots well can return to being angled towards their targets after firing a full salvo. In addition to her great rudder shift, Normandie’s turning radius is excellent for her speed, on par with the USN New Mexico. Furthermore, her deadly array of secondary batteries can make quick work of enemy destroyers that venture too close—should captains invest in the relevant upgrades and commander skills for a secondary build, they are almost as deadly as Bayern’s. Unfortunately, her anti-aircraft suite is virtually useless, with even the notoriously AA-light Fuso sporting more capable flak.

In short, Normandie is a moderately-armored battlecruiser with great speed, main batteries, and maneuverability, but with below average armor and worst-in-tier anti-aircraft firepower. Her speed and handling somewhat make up for her lack of armor, but captains must learn not to always rely on her speed for everything.

Pros:

• Main battery guns are decent: large number of barrels, standard rate of fire, and great firing range.
• Long range secondary batteries for a Tier VI battleship.
• Excellent handling characteristics. Her turning radius and rudder shift speed give her handling comparable to high tier cruisers.
• Excellent speed. Normandie is the fastest of its tech tree type and tier.

Cons:

• Low health pool for its ship type and tier, barely better than New Mexico’s stock hull.
• Torpedo protection is weak and her citadel is poorly-armored. Normandie can be easily penetrated by guns of 380mm and above from just about any angle.
• Dispersion can be infuriating at long range
• Poor main battery firing angles; Normandie has to show almost full broadside to fire all 3 turrets.
• Inaccurate, slow-reloading secondaries with small caliber: Bayern’s 150mm and New Mexico’s 127mm secondaries fire faster. Despite their large volume, Normandie’s secondaries inflict little damage.
• Worst-in-tier anti-aircraft suite.
• Large detection radius; only Fuso and Mutsu have worse concealment in the tier.

Research

Availability of researchable upgrades for Normandie is as follows:

• Hull: Upgrade to Hull (B) for additional hit points, quicker rudder shift time, and a cosmetic re-arrangement of her AA guns that doesn't substantially improve her AA armament. Research of this module unlocks progression to Lyon.
• Gun Fire Control System: Upgrade to PCA n° 6 Mle 2 for an extra 10% range on the main battery.
• Propulsion: Upgrade the propulsion module for a 1.5 knot speed increase.

Early experience gains should go to Hull (B) for the additional hit points. After that, captains should decide which they value more: the extra speed or additional main battery range.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Normandie are as follows:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Damage Control System Modification 1 
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Steering Gears Modification 1 *

Due to Normandie’s already great rudder shift time — once Hull (B) is installed — players can opt to replace Steering Gears Modification 1 with either Propulsion Modification 1 or Damage Control System Modification 2 (the latter is recommended).

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense
1	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type.	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance when firing at submarines.	Consumables Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party .	Emergency Repair Specialist -3% cooldown time of Damage Control Party  and Repair Party . ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns.
2	Grease the Gears +20% main turret traverse speed. ★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells. Base fire chance reduced by half.	Brisk So long as the ship remains undetected: +10% ship speed.	Vigilance +25% detection range of enemy torpedoes +7% damage reduction of Torpedo Protection System. . ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	AAA & ASW Expert +15% continuous AAA and flak damage . +10% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −40% ship consumables reload time..
3	Super-Heavy AP Shells +7.5% AP shell damage −10% fire and flood damage received +25% fire and flood duration.	Long-Range Secondary Battery Shells +20% secondary battery firing range.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★	Basics of Survivability -15% repair, fire, and flooding duration. ★★	Improved Repair Party Readiness −0.8% reload time of Repair Party each time your ship receives potential damage equal to 100% of the ship's base HP. After receiving 2M HP potential damage: +1 charge of Repair Party ..	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
4	Furious 1st fire / flood   −10% Main battery reload time 2nd etc. (up to 5), each   −5% Main battery reload time	Manual Secondary Battery Aiming −10% secondary battery reload time. −10% secondary battery dispersion. When firing at a manually selected target: dispersion gradually improves from -25% to -50%.	Close Quarters Combat -10% reload time of main battery if an enemy ship is spotted within secondary range.	Emergency Repair Expert Damage Control Party  and Repair Party : +1 charge (each). +10% action time . ★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship.	Fire Prevention Expert -10% risk of fire. Three fires maximum. ★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Normandie can equip the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Repair Party  – 4 charges

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Juliet Charlie -100% to the risk of magazine detonation. ★	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration. ★★★	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★★★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy. ★	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding.	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating.
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time. ★★	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts. ★	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used. ★★★
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

Note: Use of the Juliet Charlie signal makes detonation impossible.

Gallery

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Historical Info

Normandie, 1914

Construction

Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire;
   Saint-Nazaire, France

Laid down: 18 April 1913

Launched: 19 October 1914

Construction halted: July 1915

Cancelled: 1922

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Specifications

25,230 tons displacement, full load

170.6m length

27m beam

8.65m draft

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Machinery

2-shaft 4-cyl VTE engines

2-shaft Parsons steam turbines

28 small-tube Guyot du Temple coal-fired boilers

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Performance

21 knots at 32,000 shaft horsepower
   (planned to increase to 22 kts with 45,000 s.h.p.)

6,500 nm at 12 knots

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Armor

Main belt: 120-300mm

Upper belt: 160-240mm

Decks: 50mm

Bulkheads: 40mm

Barbettes and Turrets: 250-340mm

Conning tower: 300mm

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Armament

Main

Twelve (3x4) 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 guns

Secondary

Twenty-four (24x1) 138.6mm/55 Modèle 1910 guns

Anti-aircraft

Six (6x1) 47mm (1.9-inch) M1902 anti-aircraft guns

Torpedoes

Six (6×1) 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Normandie under construction.

History

Design

The Normandie class of dreadnought battleships was a group of five ships ordered for the French Navy in 1912–13. The class comprised Normandie, the lead ship, Flandre, Gascogne, Languedoc, and Béarn. The design incorporated a radical arrangement for the twelve 340 mm (13.3 in) main battery guns: three quadruple gun turrets, as opposed to the twin turrets used by most other navies. The first four ships were also equipped with an unusual hybrid propulsion system that used both steam turbine and triple expansion engines to increase fuel efficiency.

Ordered on 12 December 1912, this project was developed using Bretagne as a basis; it would be the first time in history to mount the main guns in quadruple turrets (by pairs in two gun slides, each one weighing 1,500 t), electrically trained and hydraulically elevated. Each pair of guns had its own ammunition hoist and magazine, and hosted secondary gunnery control stations. The guns would have a firing range of 16km and a rate of fire of two rounds per minute. Five range-finders (two on the conning tower, three atop each turret) provided fire control for the main batteries. The secondary battery would consist of twenty-four 138.6 mm /55 Modèle 1910 guns, each singly mounted in casemates in the hull. The four-shaft machinery included would utilize the VTEs for cruising.

Service

The ships, named after provinces of France, were never completed due to shifting production requirements after the outbreak of war in 1914. Normandie was never commissioned let alone saw combat. Construction came to a halt in January 1918, with Normandie’s hull 65 percent complete, her engines 70 percent complete, the turrets were 40 percent assembled, and her boilers delivered but were instead installed in new destroyers. The first four ships were sufficiently advanced in construction to permit their launching to clear the shipyards for other, more important work. Many of the guns built for the ships were instead converted for use by the Army. After the war, the French Navy considered several proposals to complete the ships, either as originally designed or modernized to account for lessons from the war. The weak French post-war economy coupled with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, however, necessitated that the first four ships be broken up for scrap.

The last ship, Béarn, though not significantly advanced at the time work halted, was converted into an aircraft carrier in the 1920s. She remained in service in various capacities until the 1960s, and was ultimately scrapped in 1967.

Historical Inaccuracies

• Normandie in World of Warships is Wargaming's interpretation of the French battleship. Her appearance is heavily fictionalized and her in-game stats have been altered for balance purposes. Normandie’s original design is not represented.

Historical Gallery

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  Artist's impression of a Normandie-class battleship.

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  CG-rendering of the Normandie class, showing the arrangement of the primary and secondary batteries.

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  3/4 view of the Normandie class.

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  French aircraft carrier Béarn underway in 1939.

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  Béarn conducting air operations, date and location unknown.

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  A Levasseur PL.10 reconnaissance biplane takes off from Béarn’s flight deck, date unknown.

References

1. Normandie-class battleship - Wikipedia
2. www.avalanchepress.com
3. www.navypedia.org

Ship Change Log

See here for links to Update notes.

Testing Changes

• November 8, 2017:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• December 27, 2017:
  • Sigma was decreased from 1.8 to 1.6.
  • The middle turret's traverse range was decreased from a full 360 degrees to 308 degrees.

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.6.14.
• Update 0.7.2:
  • Introduced into the game as a researchable ship.
• Update 0.7.12:
  • Added permanent "New Year" camouflage with the following bonuses:
    • +4% to the maximum dispersion of enemy shells firing at your ship.
    • -3% to visibility from ships.
    • +50% to experience earned in a battle.
    • -10% to the cost of servicing the ship after the battle.
• Update 0.8.5:
  • Credit earnings decreased by 5%.
  • Experience earnings decreased by 5%.
• Update 0.9.5:
  • Fixed a bug with incorrect aiming angles of secondary battery.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The firing range of the secondary battery was increased to 5.6 km.
• Update 12.5:
  • The old World of Warships logo was removed from the New Year permanent camouflage.
• Update 13.1:
  • The Stonewash permanent camouflage was added.

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