Lorraine 40 t

## General Information

The in-game icon for the Lorraine 40 t

The Lorraine 40 t or just the Lorraine is a French tier VIII Premium medium tank. It features a 4 shot auto-loader gun.

## Strategy

### Pros

* 900 combined alpha with all 4 shells penetrating
* Fast (though this does come with the cost of having extremely poor armor)
* Decent hitpool for a medium in tier VIII

### Cons

* Bad armor
* Pike-nose hull makes it impossible to side-scrape with poor armor
* Bad gun elevation

### Strategy

#### As the Lorraine 40 t

Since this tank has almost no armor whatsoever, **play like this tank as if it never had armor in the first place**. Don't expect to bounce shots, your armor is too thin to bounce any shots. You do have a pike-nose hull, which does not make it any better, and only discourages side-scraping. Play second line and dump all 4 shells with your 225 alpha and then retreat into cover. Never push without making sure that any high caliber guns can't hit you or are on reload. Don't ram either, as almost every single other tank in tier VIII has better armor than you.

#### Against the Lorraine 40 t

If you can penetrate the Lorraine's armor with HE shells, then fire HE shells. The Lorraine's biggest weakness is having extremely poor armor (similar to the Leopard 1) and a long clip reload. If the Lorraine came without any sort of support, then push aggressively and wiggle your hull and turret to prevent the Lorraine from clipping you out, as a combined 900 alpha clip is still deadly. Nevertheless, the strategy is simple: fire HE, pull into cover, repeat. The Lorraine relies on its mobility and gun to do well, and by exploiting the near non-existent armor of the Lorraine, you can get 1500 damage for free (that is, if you don't get hit by a penetrating shot).

## Specifications

### Modules

#### Turret

 **Turret Armor** | Front: 55 mmSides: 30 mmRear: 20 mm
 **Max AmmoRack Size** | 48 shells

#### Suspension

 **Terrain CrossingCapacity** | Road: 116% Ground: 104%Water: 74%

## History

From Blitzhangar: "This experimental French tank was developed during the 1940s. Two prototypes were manufactured in 1952. In addition to the oscillating turret, the vehicle featured suspension with air-core tires and pike nose armor. The design passed trials, but never entered mass production."

### Historical Accuracy

The tank indeed had 2 prototypes and featured an oscillating turret. This is one of the few times where Wargaming is actually accurate on tank histories.

Real history
The Lorraine company kept a close eye on the designs made by AMX, and were tasked with producing a lightweight variant of the AMX 50. Their design mated a hydraulically operated oscillating turret to the then experimental Canon D’Assaut Lorraine’s chassis, thus creating the Lorraine 40t. Similar to the turret designed by FAMH (Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt) for the AMX-50, the turret for the Lorraine 40t was designed in 2 sections. The lower section allowed the turret to rotate horizontally and the upper section could depress and elevate along with the gun with respect to the lower portion, with an elevation range of -8 degrees to +15 degrees.Front view of the Lorraine 40t, showing the pike nose and oscillating turret.The Lorraine 40t undergoing some maintenance.Lorraine40t was "laughing heartily".Two prototypes were finished in 1952 and testing of the vehicles went on through 1953 and 1954 but never reached the production stage.
Because America, as part of NATO, supplied surplus M47 Pattons to the French during the outbreak of the Korean war, interest in the AMX-50 and Lorraine 40t wavered. The high cost of producing and maintaining these vehicles eventually caused the cancellation of the tanks related to the M4 project in favor of the vehicles provided by NATO. Further development of a French main battle tank would not surface again until the Franco-German collaboration which sprouted the Leopard and AMX 30 in the late 1950s. The Lorraine 40t and its variants were supposedly the final attempts of Lorraine to reenter the military market.
**Information from**: tanks-encyclopedia

## Trivia

* The Lorraine is notoriously hard to play due to its lack of armor
* The Lorraine has a heavy tank variant (albeit with a much worse gun, being compared to a worse version of the Emil 1 and EMIL 1951) named the Somua SM

## External Links

https://blitzhangar.com/en/tank/lorraine-40-t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine\_40t