Duguay-Trouin
Also called: 迪盖-特鲁安 Beta- Switch to HE the moment a target angles: your bounce angles are the standard 45°/60°, so AP that fails the angle check does nothing no matter how much penetration it carries. Save AP for a flat broadside
- Work the islands rather than a firing line
- Avoid: Pushing in blind because the kit says brawler
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Across 3,700+ Standard battles from 340+ players, Duguay-Trouin averages a 58% win rate, 28,600 damage and 1.0 kills per battle, and survives 26% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
Duguay-Trouin is a Tier III French light cruiser with Sonar as her vision tool. It lets her contest islands and smoke without exposing the hull to vision cycles, which shapes how she pressures caps. Her sonar reaches 3.5 km, which is the range at which she can commit to a contest without guessing. Standout traits: best AP overmatch threshold in T3 CAs (10.8 mm, 1st of 12) and heavy AP shells in T3 CAs (3,300, 2nd of 12). The trade is surface detection in T3 CAs (10.9 km, 11th of 12).
Positioning
Work the islands rather than a firing line. Sonar (3.5 km on ships, 2.5 km on torpedoes) is the whole kit, and it only pays inside that radius, so hold the cover beside a contested cap and use it to catch destroyers and torpedoes coming around the corner: HE into the destroyer, AP into any cruiser that shows you a broadside while it sits in smoke. Firing from a friendly smoke reveals you at 5 km, so pick the salvo rather than holding the trigger. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on. Both phases of a turn are slow (7.8 s on the rudder, a 670 m circle), so course changes are a plan rather than a reaction: set the angle before you are shot at.
Potato Avoidance
Pushing in blind because the kit says brawler
3.5-km Sonar is what makes the close fight winnable, and it only helps once you are already committed; it does not tell you what is waiting two islands over. Push when a destroyer is lit or a teammate holds vision, not to find out who is there.
Signature Traits
- Big-caliber AP overmatch · 10.8 mm
- Heavy AP shells · 3300 damage
- Close-range AP brick · 259.7 mm
- Long-range AP brick · 92.76 mm
- Long gun range · 13.1 km
26700 HP, best of T3 CAs.
13 mm bow, top decile of T3 CAs. Harder for same-tier AP to overmatch.
10.9 km surface detect, bottom decile of T3 CAs. Visible before you can react; position early.
26 mm AP arming threshold, worst of T3 CAs. Over-pens thin plates; the trade-off pays off when most targets are battleship belt armor.
How to get Duguay-Trouin
Duguay-Trouin is available in the Rapid Cruisers branch of the France Tech Tree for 85,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 21,240 credits.
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Duguay-Trouin sits in the Rapid Cruisers branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full France tree.
Builds
Pair with a commander whose unique skill complements her main armament; check the build tool for current recommendations.
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Cohort position
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Where Duguay-Trouin sits among Tier III CAs (11 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
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Not standouts for Duguay-Trouin -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Stats & specs
Customize in the Build Tool →ƒ
How far each mount can train, in degrees to either side of the mount's own facing. A rear turret with ±150° leaves a 60° blind wedge over the bow; one-sided arcs are wing mounts that cover a single side. The data does not say which way each mount faces, so the arcs are listed per mount without bow/stern angles.ƒ
180° − 140° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 40° off bow; 180° − 141° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 39° off stern. How far off the bow (or stern) the ship must angle before every main turret can fire: the widest blind wedge among the rear-facing (or forward-facing) mounts, from each mount's trainable arc.ƒ
In practice: the baseline curve for a standard cruiser -- at max range (13.1 km) shells land in an ellipse about 124 m wide and 74 m tall. Also on this curve (215): AL Baltimore, AL Chapayev, AL Cheshire, AL Harbin, AL Montpelier, AL Tallinn, AL Zara, Aberdeen, Accord, Agano, Albemarle, Algérie and 203 more.ƒ
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the dispersion model:ƒ
Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:ƒ
50%-hit horizontal radius:ƒ
50%-hit vertical radius:ƒ
180 degrees / 8 deg/s traverse speed = 22.5 s.ƒ
8 broadside guns x 60 / 12 s base reload = 40.HE shells
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26 mm ≈ 155 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).ƒ
2,200 HE damage x 8 broadside guns = 17,600.ƒ
17,600 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 12 s base reload = 88,000.ƒ
40 shells/min × 0.11 (11% fire chance) = 4.4.AP shells
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floor(155 mm caliber / 14.3) = 10 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).ƒ
AP formula evaluated at muzzle velocity: .ƒ
Same formula at the ship's max firing range (13.1 km), where the shell has slowed to 371.8 m/s: .ƒ
3,300 AP damage x 8 broadside guns = 26,400.ƒ
26,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 12 s base reload = 132,000.ƒ
AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.ƒ
Speed of the top torpedo module (all-upgrades configuration, 58.0 kt); the stock torpedo module runs 57.0 kt.ƒ
Most targets only intersect one hull section, so a hit transfers about 1/3 of the warhead alpha (2/3 when the warhead blast >= 5000 and the burst reaches a second section). For this ship: . In battle, a hit on the torpedo belt deals the per-hit figure × (1 − the target's torpedo protection %), a bow or stern hit deals it in full, and a torpedo never counts as a citadel hit.ƒ
33,700 warhead alpha / 3 + 1,000 blast = 12,233. Warhead alpha / 3 plus the blast addend: the per-torpedo damage figure. The 'Maximum simulated damage' row above applies target geometry to the same warhead.ƒ
Per-torpedo module/blast damage parameter. Most torpedoes carry 500 to 2,000; ships announced by WG as dealing increased module damage carry 9,000 to 12,000, so their hits knock out engines, rudders, and turrets far more often. Comparative figure.ƒ
How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning): . 2.6855 converts knots to m/s on the game clock. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further.ƒ
This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 1.99 per hit, shown as . Values above 100% are normal: in battle the base chance is scaled down by the target's torpedo protection (the Torp Reduction stat on its Survivability card) and any flood-resistance modifiers, so a value above 100% keeps flooding likely even through partial protection.ƒ
Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg: .ƒ
One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 11,233 = 67,398. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.ƒ
Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Initial: 5 × 3.5 × 0.9 = 16 → 7 × 3.5 × 0.9 = 22. Raw aura damage × 3.5 × hit probability, the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Effective DPS: 35 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.85 hit probability = 104 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Far 22 + Near 104 = 126ƒ
Each ~2 s salvo fires 2 AA explosions in quick succession, each leaving 1 cloud ahead of the attacking squadron - up to 2 clouds per salvo × 100 damage each. Planes that fly into a cloud take its damage; clouds dissipate before the next salvo lands. Defensive AA Fire, where fitted, multiplies the AA explosions within each salvo, and commander skills that raise the Number of AA explosions add to it.ƒ
Damage a plane takes for flying into one flak cloud, before any reductions.ƒ
Each cloud in the pattern rolls this chance to spawn, so salvos average fewer clouds than the maximum. Often called flak 'hit chance', but spawned clouds always damage planes that fly into them - the roll is on spawning.ƒ
A new flak salvo (the AA explosions above) fires roughly every 2 s.ƒ
Flak keeps firing while at least one AA mount is operational - it stops only once every AA mount is knocked out.ƒ
The activation band: flak fires while attacking planes are inside it. Clouds are placed ahead of the planes' path, so clouds can land short of 2.5 km or past 3 km - once planes get inside the band, new salvos stop. AA range bonuses push the outer edge out; the 2.5 km inner edge does not move.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 33 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.2 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.ƒ
Seconds from top speed to a dead stop after ordering full reverse: reverse power winds in over the reverse spool-up while water drag does most of the braking, using the ship's own reverse-power ratio. The full curve is on the acceleration chart. Full reverse stops about a quarter faster than a plain Stop order from top speed.ƒ
Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse.ƒ
Time to reach 90% of top speed (29.7 kt of 33.0 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (32.7 kt of 33.0 kt). 99% rather than 100% because true top speed is asymptotic (thrust meets drag), so the last fraction of a knot is never quite gained.ƒ
With the rudder hard over the hull turns 6.1°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 8 − 6.1 = +1.9°/s, so the guns hold the target through the turn. Main Battery Mod. 2 (+20% traverse) and Mod. 3 (−15%) move this line.ƒ
Base value, no camouflage. With a Grade IV permanent camo (or any disposable camo): 10.9 km x 0.955 = 10.41 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 10.9 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 10.41 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 10.9 km) = 13.14 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.ƒ
Air detectability 6.54 km + gun-firing bloom 3.1 km = 9.64 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 155 mm × 0.020 = 3.1 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 10.9 km + 2.0 km while burning = 12.9 km.ƒ
Air detectability 6.54 km + 3.0 km while burning = 9.54 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 60 s reload · 5 s active
Sonar Hull B only2 charges · 180 s reload · 90 s active · 3.48 km ship detect ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):
Catapult Fighter3 charges · 80 s reload · 70 s active · 5 km patrol radius ƒ
Derived from the consumable's 30 m grid-unit range (km = grid units x 30 / 1000):
Under the hood
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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
The constants behind the formulas and the long tail: shell and dispersion inputs, fixed-range anchors, salvo math, layered AA. Click the formula chip on any row to see how it is calculated.
Main battery formulas
The standard cruiser dispersion curve.(166.7 × (8 − 1.1) / 1000 + 1.1) × 30 = 67.5 m. Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.(333.3 × (8 − 1.1) / 1000 + 1.1) × 30 = 102 m. How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.How tall the scatter ellipse is at a fixed 5 km, from the same model, comparable from ship to ship. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 13139.5 m. Below the kink: , so .How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 13139.5 m. Above the kink: , so .AP penetration at a fixed 5 km, from the same ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the AP formula , where 615.1 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 870 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.AP penetration at a fixed 10 km, from the same ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the AP formula , where 443.2 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 870 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.How long an AP shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 870 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.How long an HE shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 870 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.4 mounts × 2 barrels = 8; all 8 bear on the broadside.Model inputs
Armor-penetration constant of the AP shell; penetration scales straight with it, so a 10% higher Krupp is 10% more penetration at every range.Enters penetration as mass^0.69 and slows the shell's drag deceleration, so a heavier shell keeps more velocity at range.Air drag on the AP shell in flight; lower keeps velocity, and with it penetration, at long range.Starting speed of the AP shell; penetration scales with velocity^1.38.Starting speed of the HE shell; sets its flight time and lead.Horizontal dispersion growth per idealDistance of range, in 30 m units; the slope of the scatter-width line.Horizontal dispersion at zero range, in 30 m units; the intercept of the scatter-width line.Range step over which horizontal dispersion grows by idealRadius.Inside this range the scatter width tapers toward minRadius instead of following the line.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at zero range.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at the delim point.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at maximum range.Where the vertical-scatter curve bends, as a share of maximum range.Torpedoes
1200 m / (58.0 kt × 2.6855) = 7.7 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).6510 m / (58.0 kt × 2.6855) = 41.8 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).4 launchers × 3 tubes.12 wing tubes / 2 = 6: the launchers sit one per beam, so only half of them reach any one side. Each launcher reloads on its own, so she can fire one beam, turn, and fire the other without waiting.All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 12 x 11,233 = 134,796. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 3 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 75 50 Mle 1922 4x1 -> 22 DPS @ 3 km; 13 2 76 Hotchkiss CAQ Mle 1929 twin 6x2 -> 104 DPS @ 1.2 km.@ 3 km: 22 from one family; @ 1.2 km: 22 + 104 = 126. Cumulative AA DPS at each family range threshold. Inner ranges stack the outer families, so a target closing the distance hits stronger AA bubbles as it crosses each band.22 + 104 = 126 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (1.2 km).22 × 3 + 104 × 1.2 = 191. SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Ship Charts
Background
The world's first large warship designed and built after World War I. The ship had virtually no armor protection but carried very powerful torpedo armament. An innovation that was implemented on this type of ship was the arrangement of her main guns in twin-gun superfiring turrets.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 22,900 → 26,700 with hull upgrade, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds.
Overmatched by 51+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 10%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 13 mm primary (range 13–30 mm) | 3,600 (13% of HP) | Overmatched by 203mm+ AP (Desert Falcon, Genova)Angle bounces 152mm13 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP. |
| Hull (midship) | 14 mm | 20,000 (75% of HP) | Overmatched by 203mm+ AP (Desert Falcon, Genova)Angle bounces 152mm14 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 13 mm primary (range 13–20 mm) | 2,600 (10% of HP) | Overmatched by 203mm+ AP (Desert Falcon, Genova)Angle bounces 152mm13 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 20 mm primary (range 13–20 mm) | ≈ 165,500 (effectively no cap) | Citadel pen: full damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage | Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. An AP citadel penetration deals the shell's full damage, the biggest single hit available; only over-penetrations are damped, to ×0.10. |
| Superstructure | 10 mm primary (range 10–30 mm) | 1,000 (4% of HP) | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage. HE-spam target, and the section saturates fast (often only a few thousand HP). |
| Turret (module, per magazine) | separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP | 13,400 magazine HP | Turret knocked out | Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool that does not drain ship HP. As it is worn down the turret is likelier to be knocked out, and a smaller pool gets there faster. |
| AA mount (75 mm mount) | separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP | 200 per-mount HP | Destroyed at 0 HP | Per-mount HP for the heaviest AA on this ship. An AA mount destroyed at 0 HP stops shooting down planes for the rest of the battle; DCP does not repair destroyed mounts. HE shells specifically target AA mounts since the small-caliber HP pool falls fast. |
| Rudder (module) | separate HP pool, does not drain ship HP | 8,000 module HP | Incapacitated at 0 HP | When module HP reaches 0 the rudder locks at its current angle until DCP repairs it. Repair via Damage Control Party. |
Saturation cap = HP a section can absorb before further damage to it is reduced (the "bow-tank" effect). Citadel pool is ~165k on every ship (effectively no cap); damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead. Superstructure saturates fast but HE always pens regardless of the plate thickness. Rudder (and other module HPs) are a separate pool from ship HP: damaging a module doesn't drain ship HP. Incapacitated modules like the rudder and engine are restored by DCP, but secondary and AA mounts destroyed at 0 HP stay out for the rest of the battle.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior Duguay-Trouin can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
Primary official WG sources
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