Today in the afternoon, the 3rd iteration for the Bat Chatillon Bourrasque went to the supertest.
The tank showed VERY good performance and WG decided to nerf it a little. But the tank is really strong in terms of performance characteristics and you can find it in random battles.
Bourrasque (a gust of wind – from French) is being tested by WG supertests and developers.
• Drum reload time: from 17.622 to 21.538 s.
• Damage per minute: from 2201.6 to 1835.3 DPM.
• Rate of fire: from 6.115 to 5.098 RpM.
Source: WoTClue;
I’m curious how this will stack up against the CZ and ITA lines. As the “old” French autoloaders are no longer competitive in general, certainly not the mediums.
Probably good enough to push Skoda T 27 into the closet for good, but hardly enough to dethrone Progetto 46. BC Bourrasque has the edge in camo, mobility and alpha, but lacks flexibility (no ready rack like Progetto and bad gun depression) and has atrocious aimtime (iirc 3.5 seconds).
Basically like all French autoloaders, they all have garbage aimtime.
Basically EBR 105 with tracks.
My guess is that this will be the next Marathon tank. I think it looks cool.