Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170808031203/@comment-30534142-20170810141930

165.225.76.75 wrote: 181.49.93.251 wrote:

The italians guns were as powerful as a 16-inch, with even longer range. Richelieu's were not as powerful, so they will be more like Bismarck's or a little better than Warspite's On the other hand there's 4 guns by turret. So maybe huge FP bonus, along with high accuracy penalty. I gess our cardinal will have less FP than bisko and Warspite, but will become the same once equiped with her two main gun. The Italians 15 inch guns were not as strong as US 16 inch guns of the same era...

Their shells had way less bursting charge than the US 16 inch shells and even less than the Richelieu's shells. Their shell velocity of 850m/s (and not 910m/s...) gave them indeed a longer range and a better striking velocity than other 15 inch guns (and thus a better deck penetration) but it was still inferior to the US 16 inch guns armor penetration capability.

If navweaps can be trusted, the Littorio class' guns had around the same armor penetration than the Richelieu.

Also, originaly since the Richelieu had a shell velocity of 830m/s, she had a max range of around 41.7 km but with her refit and firing US shells her range dropped to around 37 km.

So if she will have either long or very long range depends on the devs.

My guess is she will be inbetween  Littorio and Bisko stat wise but with better AA in Kai form.

As for her guns, better FP than Italian guns, +1 armor, maybe very long range (?), but -EVA and -ACCU. The question is will they have worse accuracy than the Italians or not ?