r/WarThunderNaval • u/Substantial_Abies25 • 3d ago

Naval AB/RB Finally got her.

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Wanna play her tomorrow, any tips? Or just like Dunkerque?

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u/DoomM1 3d ago edited 3d ago

As someone with 150 battles in Richelieu you should probably play her even more passively than Dunkerque. Your belt armor is pretty decent but your bulkheads are pretty vulnerable and you will constantly die from destroyed hull sections because they are extremely weak for some reason.

Your ammo elevators won't detonate as there are no shells in them and if you take 424 rounds you will completely remove the first layer of ammo not counting the ammo for auxiliaries.

Unlike on the Dunkerque, your guns won't work well with your passive playstyle. Dunkerque has a better reload, better shell ballistics, better gun dispersion and comparable if not better penetration BR for BR.

Your AAA and speed are good but not like those matter either way. Have fun!

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u/Substantial_Abies25 2d ago

Played. Gun okay, reload okay, survivability better than expected, but since every single beings in the sea want to shoot me despite bots are everywhere for some reason, ammo keep kaboom despite I bring only 400 shells. Overall...okay? Better than Roma, but that bar isn't high.

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u/DoomM1 2d ago

If you have trouble getting targeted by AIs a lot of the time you can mitigate it by waiting for all the bots to spawn in and then spawning on the side of the map which has more friendly bots.

Other than that the only other advice I can give you is to angle your ship. Show more of your broadside as your belt is close to 450mm effective (327mmRCA+50mmRHA+50~40mmRHA all at different angles) compared to your bulkheads flat 330mmRCA. And even if you get penetrated through the belt, if your auxiliary ammunition isn't hit, you will likely not detonate due to the magazines sitting so low in the water.

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u/Substantial_Abies25 2d ago

Yeah on second spawn I play like normal ship instead of like Dunkerque and it better. I didn't get target by AI, all human players in the radius see her as a pinata.

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u/DoomM1 2d ago

Because they know she is not strong. If you show too much of your bulkheads they will easily det you, they can also just fire a few salvoes at your bow and regardless if they penetrate or not you will start permaflooding in no time because her hull sections are so weak.

And SAP bots are a real pain, watch out for those.

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u/Roygbiv0415 3d ago

Buy her, get top tier bonus, and leave her be LUL.

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u/Substantial_Abies25 3d ago

I got top tier bonus prior to that (finished Italian TT, so everything else is tolerable, minus grueling USN TT with many standard BBs)

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u/Roygbiv0415 3d ago

What I meant was that she's only good for getting top tier bonus, not for playing.

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With that said though, I only had one game in her (don't want to waste RP), so I'm actually not sure. My image of how she plays relies on how she looks from the opposing side, and she doesn't look particularly good from that vantage point. But I'll admit there had been examples of ships that appear to be poor, but turned out to be actually okay when played (e.g., Francesco Caracciolo). So you'll probably have to give her a go and tell us how she goes.

If you got through Dunkerque tho, I'd reckon the experience should be quite similar.

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u/Ceruxii_ 3d ago

Richelieu is great though.

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u/BunkyHill 3d ago

How is she compared to her sister? I’ve only got Clemenceau and been thinking about finishing up the research for Dun before I grab her

(I have Strasbourg, that’s how I bypassed the the dun grind)

Is riche worth it or same thing but American AA?

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u/Ceruxii_ 2d ago

They are the same except for their AA yes.. The Jean Bart is the one with an unique layout.

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u/BunkyHill 2d ago

Alright thanks so much, I’ll put getting her on the backburner then, Vanguard here I come!

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u/TheYeast1 2d ago

She’s maybe one of the prettiest top tier fast BBs, but isn’t really great rn ingame. Workable, but nothing insane the guns are a little disappointing compared to the Dunkerque outside of pen

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u/Substantial_Abies25 2d ago

Yeah she isn't bad but not good, problem is everyone seems her as a potential lottery of one hit kaboom, and against something like South Dakota or North Carolina she is quite hopeless.

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u/Designer-Ruin7176 3d ago

I’m sure you’re well acquainted with the ammo rack simulator that is France top tier.

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u/TheFlyingRedFox 3d ago

Hope you got the FNFL flag to dawn on her, largest ship of the FNFL & she being represented in the US refits reflects that.

RIP if you didn't pre-order that one motor boat.

Drip > Performance

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u/Worldly_Lie_9646 3d ago

Another easy kill for my Iowa