Henri IV’s base AA performance is lackluster, and while it's suitable for self-defense it won’t truly be capable of defending friendly ships. Henri IV captains have far fewer torpedoes available than captains of Hindenburg, Minotaur, or Zao and as such, they must be treated as a supplementary or last-ditch weapon. Henri IV is armed with a torpedo configuration that will feel familiar to veterans of the line: a single triple-tube 550mm torpedo launcher on each side of the ship with excellent firing arcs, which boasts a 9.0 km range married with decent reload time, low speed, and moderate damage. Several trade-offs must be made in order to squeeze guns of this caliber on to a cruiser hull: they have a relatively slow reload time, below-average shell velocity, and there are only nine of them. With their excellent penetration statistics, good accuracy, and great range, these guns, combined with the ship's amazing speed, make Henri IV very potent indeed. Her main battery shells have some of the highest armor-piercing damage available to Tier X cruisers and tie with Zao for the 2nd highest high explosive damage (behind Goliath). Henri IV’s key upgrades from her predecessor Saint-Louis are her speed (she is now capable of 35 knots in a straight line) and her new 3x3 240mm cannons, which are the third-largest caliber guns found on all Tech Tree cruisers at Tier X. Proudly standing at the peak of the French cruisers tree, Henri IV takes her place alongside the Russian Petropavlovsk, the British Goliath, the Spanish Castilla, the Dutch Gouden Leeuw, and her heavier counterpart Marseille as one of the “Big Gun” cruisers of Tier X.
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