Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170808031203/@comment-181.49.93.251-20170810125246

Kegietthue997 wrote: Kenzo40 wrote: Vcharng wrote: Dreddz wrote: Kenzo40 wrote: Guys it's confirmed, we will get the RICHELIEU  !!!!!





most likely, she'd have the attributes of Littorio and Roma: agility and very long range. But the 38 cm quad gun mount had the same dispersion problems as the Italian 381 mm triples due to how they were built, which means same accuracy and EVA drawbacks as the Italian guns. The main gun of the Italian BBs have a shell velocity of 910m/s, the Richelieu's only has 785. The main reason why the Italians have poor accuracy is because the unusually high velocity caused the barrel to be worn out very quickly, a problem Richelieu would most likely not encounter.

BTW, Richelieu had 56x 40mm Bofors and 50x 20mm Oerlikons, that's some very serious AA fire, I would say. Richelieu's guns had originaly a shell velocity of 830m/s but changed to 785m/s after a refit in 1942. After her refit in the USA in 1943, she fired US shells and had a shell velocity of 800m/s.

The main problem for the inaccuracy of the Richelieu was caused by the close proximity of the barrels of her guns like the Dunkerque (same problem than some Italian and US cruisers). This problem was resolved post-war by adding delay coils to the center guns. So she will have Range: Long and - accu?

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

For those commenting on accuracy, the reason for the italain guns being so inaccurate, was because they didn't constructed shells of regular quality, resulting in unpredictable patterns because of mistakes in the construction of some shells. The french guns were more accurate, but they were nothing special.

The delay coils were introduced by the Japanese and british in the mid 30s, as japanese heavy cruisers and british new battleships and light cruisers had dispersion problems, that was the solution thought off, emulated by the americans and germans during WWII and by the italians, russians and french after the war