Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170808031203/@comment-30534142-20170810122530

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.