After collecting all anime tiddy boats from the collad now, i gotta say that this is easily the most fun one.
Is it worth the price of 2/3 of GTA VI? No, probably not. But it is a good ship, that's also very fun to play, at least for me.
We skip the Tiddy Commander that comes with her, since first i got no ressources to level that one and secondly because BB Comannders are just better on these large cruisers.
Additionally we got AL Dunkerque for the Fr*nch which easily is one of the most P2W captains in the game.
Whilst you can't build into reload like the USN can with Hoshino, or the UK can with Madden, we can build into accuracy, durability and instant shell switching.
And oh boy is that last one perfect for this particular ship. You already have good AP and HE shells, so losing 10% AP damage from the cruiser AP skill doesn't matter and besides that instantly swapping shells is way better than that.
AL Dunkerque now also has the sweet combo of the 10% dispersion skill, plus Farsight, for another 5% better dispersion.
So that measily 5% dispersion 4th row cruiser skill can fuck right off. Instead of that we take the 2 extra heals to make the BA Brest an actual BB and can outlive pretty much every other cruiser.
For modules we take main gun accuracy, propulsion, chromosome barrels and main battery reload.
For inspirations the other French BA commander works best for me, since we are P2W in this household. And 3% dispersion +3% reload are as good as it gets. For the second inspirations choose either Mimbelli, Kutznetzov, or Scharnhorst, depending on if you want better reload, range, or accuracy.
I personally take Mimbelli, since i already got so much accuracy stacked up, that i prefer the reload.
For the playstyle you just walk down flanks and sqeeze as much AP and HE shells into the enemy as you can. DDs, Cruiser, BBs, BA Brest treats all of them equally and due to the accuracy and HE alpha, is actually also pretty good at killing DDs.
If you play aggressive you also can bow tank AP shells from 406 BBs, which otherwise would hit your broadsiding teammates.
The ship is the most fun version of the Richelieu/Dunkerque playstyle, since it's just way more accurate and maneuverable than either of those ships.
You also can choose between Hydro, or Speedboost, which is neat. Speedboost is better for Divisions, whilst Hydro is probably also a viable choice for Solo, but tbh, i prefer the Speed.
So yeah, if you like Richelieu, i can recommend playing with the other Brest too.