L'Aventurier
Also called: 冒险家 · L’Aventurier Beta- Push deep into caps with 6.7 km detection - closer than peer DDs can match
- Avoid: Burning the 6.7 km concealment advantage on guns
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L'Aventurier Community Stats
Across 2,800+ Standard battles from 140+ players, L'Aventurier averages a 62% win rate, 44,400 damage and 1.0 kills per battle, and survives 52% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
L'Aventurier is a Tier VII French stealth destroyer with cohort-best surface detection (6.7 km). The kit opens detection windows other DDs cannot, so her value is contesting caps her peer DDs cannot reach unspotted. Standout traits: best smoke duration in T7 DDs (20 s) and end-plate armor (20 mm).
Positioning
Push deep into caps with 6.7 km detection - closer than peer DDs can match. The advantage opens windows for free torpedo drops and unspotted reposition; treat the cap as yours to take rather than yours to contest.
Potato Avoidance
Burning the 6.7 km concealment advantage on guns
Every salvo lights you up and gives back the detection edge that makes the kit work; reserve guns for finishing damage on already-spotted ships, and prioritize torpedo drops you can fire while undetected.
Signature Traits
One launcher on each beam plus a centreline launcher, 6 tubes per side. Each launcher reloads on its own, so she can fire one side, turn and fire the other without waiting, or ambush ships on both sides of an island at once, shared by 9/42 T7 DDs.
+20% speed (about +7 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact.
- Accelerating torpedoes
- Short torpedo warning · 3.9 s
- Many torpedo launchers · 3 launchers
- Extra smoke charges · 4 Smoke
- Fast smoke cycle · 90 s
- High-arc HE shells · 22.29°
- High-arc AP shells · 21.71°
How to get L'Aventurier
L'Aventurier is available in the French Torpedo Destroyers branch of the France Tech Tree for 18,000,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 4,500,000 credits. Official source cards below may also show its temporary Early Access window before it became a normal Tech Tree unlock. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
History: Early Access Oct 2025 (temporary crate drops, now ended).
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L'Aventurier sits in the French Torpedo Destroyers branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full France tree.
Best listed chance for this ship
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Anniversary '26 French crate
1.5%
VII L'Aventurier
Event · Anniversary '26 French crate
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French Alt. Destroyer Big Crate
1%
VII L'Aventurier
Early access · French Alt. Destroyer Big Crate
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French Alt. Destroyer crate
0.3%
VII L'Aventurier
Early access · French Alt. Destroyer crate
Official WG availability sources
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Bon Voyage: French Alternate Destroyers Are Arriving!
Early Access
Start: 2025-10-31
- It comprises five ships: Tier IV L'Adroit, Tier V Duchaffault, Tier VI Le Hardi, Tier VII L'Aventurier, and Tier VIII Orage.
- From November 3 to December 1, you can obtain Tier IV–VII ships from special Early Access crates, while Tier VIII Orage will become available in the Tech Tree a bit later with the Christmas update.
Show direct source rows
- Anniversary '26 French crate 1.5% · VII L'Aventurier
- French Alt. Destroyer Big Crate 1% · VII L'Aventurier
- French Alt. Destroyer crate 0.3% · VII L'Aventurier
Want the full picture? Each container page charts the odds as you open more crates - including pity guaranteed-reward timers and, for GD Supporters, pack math personalized to your port.
Builds
Charles Bléry, Louis Violette, and Philippe Auboyneau are useful French destroyer commander directions. Inspirations usually start with concealment, then add HP, torpedo reload, gun performance, or speed depending on whether you want safer scouting or harder cap fights.
Have a build you swear by? Open it in the Build Tool and hit Save build to share it here, or browse the Ship Builds guide for proven loadouts across the fleet.
Cohort position
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Where L'Aventurier sits among Tier VII DDs (41 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 L'Aventurier -- 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.
Peers in this cohort
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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° − 133° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 47° off bow; 180° − 147° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 33° 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 destroyer -- at max range (11.0 km) shells land in an ellipse about 97 m wide and 58 m tall. Also on this curve (225): AL Avrora, AL Yukikaze, AL Z24, Acasta, Achilles, Adriatico, Aigle, Akatsuki, Akizuki, Albany, Allen M. Sumner, Attilio Regolo and 213 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 / 10 deg/s traverse speed = 18 s.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 6 broadside guns x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 54.8. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 6 broadside guns x 60 / 6 s (5.9 s = 42 ticks) all-upgrades reload (6.5 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 5.9 s) = 60.HE shells
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22 mm ≈ 130 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).ƒ
1,950 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 11,700.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 11,700 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 106,826. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 11,700 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6 s (5.9 s = 42 ticks) all-upgrades reload (6.5 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 5.9 s) = 117,000.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 54.8 shells/min × 0.09 (9% fire chance) = 4.93. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 60 shells/min × 0.09 (9% fire chance) = 5.4.AP shells
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floor(130 mm caliber / 14.3) = 9 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 (11 km), where the shell has slowed to 292.6 m/s: .ƒ
2,400 AP damage x 6 broadside guns = 14,400.ƒ
Zero upgrades: 14,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6.571 s (6.5 s = 46 ticks) base reload = 131,478. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 14,400 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 6 s (5.9 s = 42 ticks) all-upgrades reload (6.5 s × 0.9 Main Battery Mod. 3 = 5.9 s) = 144,000.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
Base reload of the top torpedo module (all-upgrades configuration); the stock module reloads in 125 s. Modernizations and commander effects scale it further, e.g. Torpedo Launchers Mod. 3 alone is x0.85: s.ƒ
Initial: 36,000 × 0.333 = 12,000 → 37,500 × 0.333 = 12,500 (warhead alpha × saturation coefficient, stock → upgraded torpedo). 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
37,500 warhead alpha / 3 + 1,200 blast = 13,700. 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
1000 m / (95.0 kt × 2.6855) = 3.9 s; / (60.0 kt × 2.6855) = 6.2 s. How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its 1 km detectability range. These torpedoes accelerate, so the warning depends on where in the run they are spotted: they leave the tubes at 60.0 kt (6.2 s of warning if spotted immediately) and build to 95.0 kt over the first 8.25 km, so fish spotted later in the run, including every max-range shot, give only 3.9 s. Uses the 2.6855 m/s-per-knot game-speed factor. Base values; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower them further.ƒ
This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 0.8 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 12,500 = 75,000. 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 3.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Initial: 35 × 3.5 × 1 = 122 → 34 × 3.5 × 1 = 119. Raw aura damage × 3.5 × hit probability, the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Effective DPS: 6 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 20 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
Medium 119 + Near 20 = 139ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 35 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.7 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 (31.5 kt of 35.0 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (34.6 kt of 35.0 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 8.5°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 10 − 8.5 = +1.5°/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): 6.71 km x 0.955 = 6.41 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 6.71 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 6.41 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 6.71 km) = 10.96 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 3.35 km + gun-firing bloom 2.6 km = 5.95 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 130 mm × 0.020 = 2.6 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 6.71 km + 2.0 km while burning = 8.71 km.ƒ
Air detectability 3.35 km + 3.0 km while burning = 6.35 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Smoke Generator4 charges · 90 s reload · 15 s emit / 70 s cloud active · 600 m radius
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +20% speed bonus
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 destroyer dispersion curve.(166.7 × (8 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 52.5 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 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 90 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 10956 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 10956 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 486.5 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 800 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 312.8 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 800 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 800 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 840 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.3 mounts × 2 barrels = 6; all 6 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
1000 m / (95.0 kt × 2.6855) = 3.9 s; 1000 m / (60.0 kt × 2.6855) = 6.2 s. A range because these torpedoes accelerate: spotted right at launch they are still at launch speed (the high end, most warning); spotted past the short front-loaded ramp, including at max range, they are at terminal speed (the low end). detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 game-speed factor), evaluated at both speeds.These torpedoes leave the tubes at 60.0 kt and gain 35.0 kt over the first 8.25 km of the run: 60.0 kt + 35.0 kt = 95.0 kt.Ramp model on the speed curve: 60 to 95.0 kt over the first 8.25 km, then terminal speed for the rest, at 2.6855 m/s per knot: ≈ 50.4 s to max range.3 launchers × 3 tubes.3 centreline + (6 wing tubes / 2) = 6: centreline launchers train to either side; wing 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 = 9 x 12,500 = 112,500. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 3.5 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 37 50 ACAD 4x2 -> 119 DPS @ 3.5 km; 20mm Oerlikon MK4 2x1 -> 20 DPS @ 2 km.@ 3.5 km: 119 from one family; @ 2 km: 119 + 20 = 139. 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.119 + 20 = 139 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (2 km).119 × 3.5 + 20 × 2 = 456. 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
This destroyer is essentially an enlarged version of Le Hardi, featuring upgraded anti-aircraft and torpedo armament. The Spanish Civil War highlighted the heightened threat to ships posed by aviation, so in the late 1930s and early 1940s, consideration was given to reworking the Le Hardi project to enhance the power of her air defense systems.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 15,700 → 16,700 with hull upgrade, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds.
Overmatched by 137+ 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 37%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 19 mm primary (range 19–20 mm) | 2,300 (14% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Scharnhorst, Scharnhorst '43)Angle bounces 203mm19 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) | 19 mm | 12,500 (75% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Scharnhorst, Scharnhorst '43)Angle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 19 mm primary (range 19–20 mm) | 1,600 (10% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Scharnhorst, Scharnhorst '43)Angle bounces 203mm19 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 | 19 mm | no cap | 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 | 8,400 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 (37 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 | 5,000 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.
Balance History
Balance updates affecting L'Aventurier. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
Ministry of Balance: Anniversary Tune-Up
- L'Aventurier: credit and XP earnings reduced by 5%.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior L'Aventurier can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
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