Been grinding this line recently and man is this ship miserable to play!

A nearly 30 second reload on eight 305mm guns - a lot of Battleships can top that reload with a much higher caliber! Sure you get a reload booster but that hardly does enough to mitigate how mediocre this things ability to pump out damage, and the accuracy isn't much to write home about either - I truly think you could take a third off of this reload and the ship wouldn't be overpowered

The AP is incredibly trolly as well - sure you have good shell speed meaning the shells are easy to land but the arcs are so flat and the pen is such that you often overpen cruisers, especially tier 6-7 while not having enough pen to citadel a battleship meaning it's not unusual for your AP to be averaging 5-8k every 30 seconds with overpens and shatters!

The HE must be good at least? French ships usually have stellar HE and the tier 9 Brest has a great 35% fire chance so what's Cherbourgs?

17%.

Yeah you're not burning down much in this ship without help from a teammate with an actually fire starting ship.

The ONLY good things about this ship is you get a heal at tier 8 and the hull itself is good - don't have great armour or anything but you're fast and manoeuvrable and it will get you used to the playstyle when you get to the better ships in the line!

Is there a worse ship at this tier? I've grinded a fair few lines now and nothing has matched this suffering haha