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Secondary Armament
1x1 102 mm HE 35 lb:
Damage: 1,500 hp
Range: 5.0 km
Reload: 3.0 s
Chance of Fire: 6%
HE Armour Penetration: 17 mm
Shell Velocity: 811 m/s

https://www.wows-gamer-blog.com/2025/05/hms-barfleur-tier-ix-british-destroyer.html?m=1

The premium T9 DD Barf has a tiny secondary gun on that DD.

That is a unique thing of course, but nothing benefitial really. It has only 4 main guns in front like DD Pampa, so such 1 tiny additional 5th gun as well. Maybe that small gun can make 400 damage sometimes in close duels.

I think T9 DD Velos is 5% better than the new DD Barf. A tiny bit better. They are both almost identical in playstyle, scouting around and torping 4-5 torps in every minute. But Velos has in total little bit stronger abilities. Little bit stronger torps, little bit faster torps, little bit better guns, little bit better smoke, little bit so and so. So, to get 90% identical ship and even a bit better ship then go buy DD Velos. TechTree doesn't offer yet such scouts.

Like other British destroyers, she retains the ability to single-launch her torpedoes but, additionally, her torpedo launchers reload sequentially — one after another, coupled with their fast reload in general. This will mean Barfleur will almost always have some torpedoes ready, but it will take quite a while to reload her full 10 tubes

The Almost Always some torpedos ready text may mislead people and they may think they can send out 1 torpedi every 10 seconds. In reality it is not so, and it has an average torpedo readiness, typical.

So it has 2 x 5 torps. When other ships reload both torpedo racks in ca 1-2 minutes then the new DD reloads only 1 rack at a time and when it gets done it starts to reload the other rack resulting in total the same total time to get 10 torps ready as for other ships. Just that you can use the 5 torps already while the other 5 are reloading, in other DDs you must wait all 10 torps to be ready to use. So, in a way it gives a bit quicker access to torps. In total time there is no difference. No advantages really.

You get 5 torps by ca 50 seconds, similar to the T9 DD Velos.

An example scenario is such that you wait 100 secs and shoot 10 torps, then wait 50 secs and shoot 5 torps, then wait 50 secs and shoot 5 more. In other DDs you also wait 100 secs and shoot 10 but after that you can't shoot any torps in 50 seconds because you must wait 100 seconds to shoot 10 again. So, in a way you have more readiness with torps, like in every 50 secs you have readiness, but just 5 torps only.

The guns are only in forward, so when disengaging you can't really shoot, similar to Pampa and Hilder.

The smoke is very long, 30 seconds, like american smoke, so you can smoke a very large area. But it is useless usually.

Manuverability is good, torps can be shooted 1 by 1 that can make Kamikaze attacks good of course.

Slow torps, ca 62km/h.

I would compare the ship mainly with T9 DD Velos who has the similar 50 seconds torps readiness. I wouldn't compare with UK DDs really because Uk  short smoke makes them too different, that smoke is the main feature in DD hunting.

In general TechTree Uk DDs are more competitive than that new DD. But the new DD is still an average ship, not bad one. For an agressive skillful scout like me such ship does finely. Compared to DD Shima line ships it does the same quality scouting, smoke+5.6km does always on any ship. But the torpedo power is clearly weaker than Shimas have, a little bit compensates the 1 by 1 torpedo shooting, so the lucky punch can devastate as well as Shima lines typical torpedo spread. But good luck getting such hits.

60km/h torps speed requires lot of luck, in Randomz you get such luck a lot, in Rankedz/Clanz not so much.

But if your team can aim guns then a good scout is all they need to win. And such ship does it finely. You may say it scouts better than T9 Jager because it has smoke. But not better than Shimas, Velos, etc, they all do the same.

nobody asks you to prove anything, you jsut agree to participiate in a debate. This is what you do in the battle chat every day.
and if you agree ti chat you get paid.
No rocket science.
The topic of the chat is not any rocket science either, pick any topic, prove any your skill or any your opinion, for example a skill of using toilet.
And if you suceed you get even more moeny, if you fail then fine, at least you got a free moeny for participiation.
Any topic is fine, any your gaming opinion, or life opinion, anything, prove even nay opinion about toilets.

Such simple easy moeny deal.

After refusing such deal do you really continue to believe that you are right in your gaming skills or anything? doesn't look very convincing, you cant even prove your toilet skills, how sane humans would beleive your any other skills, for exampel your Wows positioning skills?

It is something like, that you and your commnuity and your country, all admire, respect, beleive to be the best of best, and additionally you yourself as well, so you all get offered a big money if you agree to participiate in a proof titled "can you prove that you can wipe yourself in toilet or any opinion in your life".

something liek that. You get isnta moeny for agrteeing in such prooving, and if you suceed, you get additional money.

It should look a really easy money, at least for me, just participiate in a debate. I personalyl can any time prove any my opinions, and any time debunk any other humans opinions. So, i would be rich in such offer.

I believe the new generous offers in the game is because of trying to increase the playerbase/customerbase. It has always had enough customers but probaby the company raised the profit goals even hugher recently.

For old Customers ca 30k free Gold is obviously nice as well. Typically a rare new premium ship costs 30-40k gold. Like Mommoth, Pampa, etc. The most rational is to take the Gold and not Steel, but life has never been rational, if you feel you would enjoy a new Steel ship then go for it, if Not then keep the Gold and buy an exclusive premium ship later.

I think all this campaign is to advertize the game for new potentional players to join. And it would profit in long terms later once those players arrive and stay. And it keeps old customers log in every day.

There is also a free T9 premium DD but i don't know who would like it, Random Battles players perhaps, others not.

The armory got a new Steel Hilderbrand type of cruiser. It will be surely banned from Clan battles, but majority just play Randomz so for them it does not matter. But in Randomz such special ships are not efficent, their planes spotting gets ignored. In Rankedz it could be good, in Clan Battles good but banned.
Collectors surely can enrich their T10 cruisers fleet with such planes cruiser, there are not many such so far, only Hilderbrands and that's it.

Rankedz new sprint has many Top Dogs in now, quite entertaining. For example the Twa clan commander and few S1R1 document owners.

Many gold members call me and the Marat clan player as legendary ones. Well, the Marat player is unique for sure, all gold players know that. Me tons know and i don't really know 90% of those knowers, there are so many of them. Well, i am alwayes pleased to chat to everybody and offer money.

I think 3 players are in dept in money to me by now. 1 million dollars plus 100 plus 100. So, theoretically i am rich. I myself have offered this year perhaps 5000 dollars, not so much as previous years.

The new Ops game mode is typically boring to me. But i can partially comprehend a teenager may like such easy game modes. Those game modes remind me an arcade old game machine where ships swimmed on the screen from left to right and you shot them with a gun. Ops-coop games are the same.