Although upgraded several times before World War II, she was not deemed to be a first-class battleship and spent most of the interwar period as a gunnery training ship. She spent the rest of the war providing cover for the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea. She spent the war in the Mediterranean, helping to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser Zenta in August 1914. ![]() ![]() She was completed before World War I and named in honour of Admiral Amédée Courbet. I mean, this is basically an upscaled Gascogne design.Courbet was the lead ship of her class, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. I'm utterly baffled by how anybody could think an A-X layout was a good idea for this ship instead of sticking with the iconic all-forward layout of the actual post-WW1 French BBs.Īt this rate, the only way they can salvage it on such short notice assuming they don't have alternate hulls already modeled just in case (one would think after the Conqueror fiasco, they'd at least have some alternate hulls in reserve for alternate use if the initial T10 is poorly received), is upscaling the Alsace N3 Hull or Jean Bart/Richelieu Hulls, redoing the deck equipment and superstructure, and playing with coding to give them the appropriate T10 stats. The only way to salvage this mess is to send it back to the 3D modeling team and have them completely redesign the ship to have an all-forward layout. And that's not something that can be fixed just by changing a few numbers in the stats. The problem here is that France's biggest problem isn't the gun stats like was the case with Henri IV.
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