Talk:Richelieu/@comment-176.10.98.132-20170903160900

I hope she gets a Kai Ni ASAP, because her stats are a horrible representation of the real life ship:

-Firepower: Why the hell does she have lower FP than the Kongou Kai Ni sisters? How is 8 380mm rifles worse than 8 35.6cm ones? And even if we assume that the Kai Ni gets 8 41cm rifles instead (which would've been extremely unlikely IRL since the 41cm would've required larger barbettes but whatever) the French 380mm still have better penetration power than the Japanese 41cm.

And Bismarck and Warspite who also have ~380mm guns both get 99+ FP. Where the fuck does that -3 penalty comes from?

-Armor: What in the ever living fuck is this shit? She has barely better armor than other FBB and worse armor than Iowa even though she had one of the best armor scheme in the war. Only KGV and Yamato had arguably better armor than Richelieu. She had a 330mm slopped belt backed by a 50mm turtleback armor, 150 to 170mm+40mm deck armor and one of the best TDS in the war. Her sister ship Jean Bart bounced a 16in shell from USS Massachusetts off of her main belt at Casablanca and she had the same armor scheme as Richelieu. Her armor values should easily be above 100, probably between 105 and 110.

-AA: Again, how is she worse than the Kongou kai-ni? The Japanese had notoriously terrible AA. On the other hand, Richelieu had a pretty excellent AA suite post 1943 refit which included lots of Oerlikons and Bofors (and this is clearly what we're supposed to have here, given the camo and the presence of 20mm and 40mm in the art), all of them widely superior to the Japanese 25mm. As for the heavy AA, I think her 100mm received radar GFCS post war. Again, she should be amongst the best in terms of AA, not the worst.

Did the dev put any research into this? Like seriously. She should be a contender for second best day battle FBB: The best one being Iowa, second one tied betweeen Richelieu and Italia/Roma (Richelieu would have the armor advantage, Italia/Roma the firepower). Bismarck would remain the yasen queen. This would give a unique role for every European FBB. Instead, they just gave us the fifth member of the Kongou Kai Ni club. Pretty dreadful.

I wish I spoke Japanese so I could send this to the devs :/ If any Japanese speaker want to send this to the devs, please do so. Her current implementation is really pretty poor.