Bat.-Châtillion 155 55 Research Path

The tier 9 French SPG. This thing isn't released onto the retail server (at the time of this writing) so I expect you folks will be spending some of that free exp. Either way, stock this SPG is pretty decent and the gun does hit hard. The only issue is the stock radio becomes a liability so you will want to upgrade that soon. The gun isn't as important oddly enough as it is quite good for a stock gun.

1. Radio: SCR 528F
2. Gun: Canon de 155 mm
3. Engine: Continental AV-1790-7B
4. Tracks: Batignolles-Châtillon 155 mle. 56
5. Tank: B-C 155 58 

Whether you want to relocate faster or have a better gun that offers slightly faster reload time and better accuracy, it's completely up to you. Just note that you can mount everything and a Maus (not really) with the stock tracks so you won't have to research them at all.

I'll add in this now for all you guys who don't know, this thing has a 360 degree turret with a turet traverse of 10 degrees per second. It does NOT have an autoloader, only the tier 10 bat-chat SPG has that.