French Destroyers: Part 2

Update 0.8.7 continues the cycle dedicated to the release of French destroyers branch.

This article will tell you how to obtain the new collection items, what French Tokens can be exchanged for, and what French destroyers have become available for research.




All players will have access to the Daily Shipment rewards: doubloons, days of Warships Premium Account, and free Legion of Honor containers.

Progressing smoothly in Update 0.8.7 and having completed six missions in each of the first two Directives, players will be able to obtain up to 630 French Tokens, which is equivalent to one of the following rewards in the Armory:

• 3 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 2,700,000 credits
  
• Up to 110 signals
  
• 31x expendable French Riviera camouflage patterns
  
• 250 doubloons

Those players who complete all the missions of the Directives will receive 1,610 Tokens, which can be exchanged for one of the following rewards in the Armory:

• 8 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 1,000 doubloons
  
• 7,200,000 credits
  
• Up to 280 signals
  
• 80x expendable French Riviera camouflage patterns

The strongest players who manage to complete all four Directives and enter the Hall of Fame will be able to obtain the main reward of this Update—a new unique Commander, Philippe Auboyneau—for 2,100 French Tokens.

• 44 missions in four Directives
  
• Legion of Honor containers and the new temporary resource—French Tokens—which can be obtained from Daily Shipments, as well as for completing daily missions and combat missions of the Directives.
  
• The new containers will provide you with Legion of Honor collection items, special signals, French Riviera camouflage patterns, and Coal. They may also contain combat missions for one of the following French Premium ships: VI De Grasse, VI Aigle, VIII Gascogne, or VIII Le Terrible.

In Update 0.8.7, Tier II–VIII French destroyers will become available for research in the Tech Tree. Try out the branch of French destroyers and check out their incredible speed and powerful guns.

Destroyer IX Mogador and destroyer X Kléber will become available for research in Update 0.8.8.


The new game event tasks you with completing 44 missions across four Directives. A new Directive will open each week, and you can start progressing in the next Directive only once you've completed six missions from the previous one.

The missions can be completed in Operations, Random, Ranked, and Co-op Battles. Some missions will also be available in Clan Battles. You’ll find the details in the game client.
Start: Thu. 22 Aug. 10:00 CEST (UTC+2) End: Fri. 13 Sep. 06:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The dates and time when the second, third, and fourth Directives open are: August 26, August 30, and September 6.

Completing missions and Directives will bring you signals, expendable camouflage patterns, Legion of Honor containers, and a new temporary resource—French Tokens.



Once you've completed six missions of the fourth Directive, you gain access to the Hall of Fame. Here, you can cross swords with the best players, and rewards will be issued to every Commander who scores at least one point in accordance with the Hall of Fame’s special Rules.

After a week's results are summed up, you can get an even bigger reward if you find yourself among the top 50%, 25%, 10%, or 5% best players.
Having earned their place in the Hall of Fame, players will also receive all the preceding rewards.

At the end of the event, the 100 best players will get a special achievement called "Top 100."

For more details, check out the rules for crediting Hall of Fame points which are available in the game client.

• Completing all Directive missions of the “French Destroyers: Part 2” event—up to 1,610 Tokens.
  
• Ranking in the Hall of Fame—up to 1,200 Tokens.
  
• Completing combat missions with IX Mogador and VIII Le Terrible—200 Tokens for each mission.

In total, you can earn up to 3,210 Tokens throughout the Update. French Tokens can be earned only in Update 0.8.7. With the release of Update 0.8.9, they will be converted into credits at a rate of 1 : 4,500.

• French Riviera expendable camouflages.
  
• Credits.
  
• Days of Premium Account.
  
• Signals.
  
• Doubloons, which will become available to purchase in the Armory. You’ll be able to exchange 350 French Tokens for 250 doubloons.
  
• The main reward—the unique Commander, Philippe Auboyneau—for 2,100 Tokens.

Republic Tokens—the temporary resource for the first part of the French Destroyers event—can't be earned in Update 0.8.7, but any remaining Republic Tokens can be exchanged in the Armory. With the release of Update 0.8.8, they will be converted into credits at a rate of 1 : 12,000.


The ultimate reward of the event is a new unique Commander, Philippe Auboyneau, who features the following talents:

• Sparks of Resistance: upon earning a "Captured" and "Assisted in Capture" ribbon, you get +1% to the probability of setting an enemy ship on fire with main battery shells.
  
• Fully Armed: a talent that’s activated when the "Devastating Strike" achievement is awarded, and reduces the reload time of the ship’s armament by 5%.
  
• Speed and Composure: every 2,000,000 HP of potential damage increases your ship's maximum speed by 8%.

All of these talents can be activated multiple times per battle.

Besides those features, the new Commander has an enhanced "Survivability Expert" skill that increases the ship's HP pool by 400 points and aircraft HP by 30 points for each ship tier.

The new Commander's talents and conditions for activating them are the development of the new unique Commanders concept, which was launched with the arrival of Admiral Kuznetsov in the game. The conditions for activating Philippe Auboyneau's talents are quite simple, but at the same time the talents themselves provide fewer bonuses than those of such unique Commanders as Halsey and Yamamoto.

Special personalizations make a nice addition to the Commander’s skills and talents. Any ship helmed by Commander Philippe Auboyneau will fly a unique broad pennant, and the main battery shell tracers will be blue. When a talent is activated, a signal flare will be fired over the ship. If you want, you can disable these personalizations. When enabled, they will be visible to all players in battle.

Philippe Auboyneau will be added with a specialization for I Bougainville and 10 skill points.


Daily Shipments, daily combat missions, and Directives of the event will bring you standard containers.

• One of the following: a special signal or an expendable French Riviera camouflage.
  
• One of the following: a special signal or 600 Coal.
  
• An item of the Legion of Honor collection.
  
• A chance to get a special combat mission for one of the following French Premium ships: VI De Grasse, VI Aigle, VIII Gascogne, or VIII Le Terrible.

You can easily replenish your supplies of Tokens and complete the Legion of Honor collection faster, as well as increase the chances of getting a combat mission for the French Premium ships, with the help of special Premium containers which are available for doubloons in the Armory or the Premium Shop.

• 120 French Tokens.
  
• One of the following: 15x special signal flags or 15x French Riviera expendable camouflage patterns.
  
• An item of the Legion of Honor collection.
  
• A chance to get a special combat mission for one of the following French Premium ships: VI De Grasse, VI Aigle, VIII Gascogne, or VIII Le Terrible.

• The mission for any particular ship can be received only once.
  
• The chances of getting a combat mission from a Legion of Honor Premium container are higher than for a standard container.
  
• To complete the mission, you must earn 5,000 base XP with a Tier V–X ship in Operations, Random, Ranked, or Co-op Battles.
  
• Combat missions can be completed until October 31.
  
• All ships come with a Port slot and Commander with 3 skill points.
  
• If you receive a mission for a ship that you already have in your Port, you'll get a Commander, Port slot, and compensation for the ship in credits for completing the mission.

The Legion of Honor collection is dedicated to the history of the French Navy. It consists of 4 sections, each comprising 4 items. The collection sections unveil the history of the order of the Legion of Honor, French destroyers, and French military awards.

Completing each section will provide you with the opportunity to mount a second flag and apply a second camouflage color scheme for French cruisers and battleships. The reward for completing the entire collection is an achievement and the ability to mount a second flag and apply a second camouflage color scheme for French destroyers.


Items of the collection drop from Legion of Honor containers, as well as daily containers—provided that you've activated the subscription.



If you regularly log in to the game during the period from August 23 through September 6, you will obtain valuable rewards in the Daily Shipments section.

There is a total of 10 rewards, while the shipments are available for 14 days. After entering the game for the first time, you'll have 14 days to obtain up to 10 rewards—with one dropped each day. Thus, you can skip four days out of two weeks and still claim all the valuable rewards.

• 6x expendable French Riviera camouflage patterns
  
• 150,000 credits
  
• 50 doubloons
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 3x Legion of Honor containers

See you on the battlefield, Captains!