They have FR BB Dispersion for their Main Batteries, the worst in the game (Italian BBs have the same dispersion model), and usually, desperately need ASM1 and MBM3 if you can cram it in. Of course, doing Secondary Spec on those FR Tier Xs for PVP may raise some eyebrows. Those guns have a natural 21mm HE Pen but very importantly have a 9% Fire Chance, which is basically double of what most everyone else gets at 5%. However, in Tier X the FR BBs there have 127mm guns, not 100mm. If you do IFHE for the 100mm guns, it improves the HE Pen from 17mm to 21mm, but guts by 50% all HE shells' Fire Chances for you. You can pray for fires unless you put the 2pts in for IFHE. The 100mm gun has ultra low HE Pen, you can't even Pen the 19mm armor of High Tier DD hulls and High Tier BB superstructure. Yes, they have 152mm secondaries also, but they fire slow and there's not enough, which is often the case for secondary guns that size. The problem for the French is that the ones with good secondaries range are usually using small 100mm guns. A number have secondaries range just like the Germans ( Richelieu / Bismarck, Republique / Preussen). The French are the "close but no cigar" ones for secondaries. There are Premium BBs outside the Germans that are viable, i.e. The only one with a bunch of viable candidates in the Tech Tree is Germany. Very few Tech Tree Lines are viable for Secondary Builds in PVP.
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