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La Foudre is a French premium battleship with official improvements to secondary range, accuracy, shell damage, rudder shift, and armor geometry. Play her as a fast pressure battleship that can threaten close fights after setting the terms.
Use speed and rudder to approach from flanks, then enter secondary range when enemy focus is split. Maintain enough angle to let armor changes help rather than exposing broadside.
La Foudre’s buffs reward controlled pressure, not reckless brawling.
+8% speed, 180 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact, uncommon in T7 BBs.
12.7 s rudder shift, top decile of T7 BBs. Snappy weave.
Flat trajectory and high velocity retention. Easy aim at range, hard for targets to dodge.
La Foudre is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Containers. 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.
Pirate Chest '26
0.4%
One of the pirate ships
Event · Pirate Chest '26 · 1 of 5 ships
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Build for survivability, secondaries, main-battery consistency, speed, and rudder. The best version pushes deliberately.
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Where La Foudre sits among Tier VII BBs (49 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.
Not standouts for La Foudre -- 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.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 80 s reload · 15 s active
Repair Party3 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 9,660 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge) 
Main Battery Reload Booster2 charges · 180 s reload · 15 s active · +50% reload boost
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 180 s active · +8% speed bonus
Secondary Battery Booster3 charges · 160 s reload · 30 s active · +100% grouping · -50% dispersionAll values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same verified dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.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.Horizontal scatter at a fixed 15 km, from the same verified dispersion model - the long-range anchor. Only shown when the ship's guns reach 15 km.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: 50%-hit vertical radius: Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: . Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (20.6 km), where the shell has slowed to 552.6 m/s: .63 mm ≈ 380 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(380 mm caliber / 14.3) = 26 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).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.All 8 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 5 deg/s traverse speed = 36 s.5,400 HE damage x 8 broadside guns = 43,200.11,900 AP damage x 8 broadside guns = 95,200.Zero upgrades: 43,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 27 s base reload = 96,000. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 43,200 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 24.3 s all-upgrades reload = 106,667.Zero upgrades: 95,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 27 s base reload = 211,556. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 95,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 24.3 s all-upgrades reload = 235,062.Zero upgrades: 8 broadside guns x 60 / 27 s base reload = 17.8. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 8 broadside guns x 60 / 24.3 s all-upgrades reload = 19.8.Zero upgrades: 17.8 shells/min x 36% fire chance = 6.4. All upgrades (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10% reload): 19.8 shells/min x 36% fire chance = 7.11.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (161×3.5×0.75) + (64×3.5×0.75) = 591. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships. Flak is NOT included: flak stops triggering once planes are inside 2.5 km, and its avoidable burst damage is shown separately in the Flak bursts section.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.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.Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.6.66 km × 57 + 30 = 409.6 m.Same per-type line evaluated at a fixed 5 km: 5 km × 57 + 30 = 315 m.Sum across all secondary families of (per-side barrels × 60 / reload_s × alpha), where per-side barrels = mounts × barrels-per-mount / 2 (the guns that bear on one broadside target). Per-family: 12×2 100 mm (12/side) × 60/3 × 1550 = 372,000 + 3×3 152 mm (4.5/side) × 60/12 × 2350 = 52,875. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 2350 from the 152 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 12% from the 152 mm family.Maximum HE armor penetration across secondary HE families (caliber × 1/6 for most nations; 1/4 for German/UK BBs). Shells whose pen falls under a plate's armor thickness shatter for 0 hull damage though fire chance still applies. Best on this ship: 25 mm from the 152 mm family.Balance updates affecting La Foudre. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
Every custom exterior La Foudre can equip, from in-game data.
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