Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20130919054827/@comment-14850713-20130923033459

As I was never really a super/futuristic warship builder, I decided to build my first historical ship instead. And since there are so many good Yamato and Iowa builders out there, I decided to build the French battleship Richelieu.

As many of its weapons are not available in BSC, I replaced them: 3 x 30.5 cm Gun+ dual(instead of the real-life 3 x 152mm triple) for the secondary battery; 6 x Mk45 5 in. guns (instead of 12 x 100mm heavy AA in 6 dual turrets) and 21 25mm triple AA (to simulate the AA coverage of the 16 37mm and 28 13.2mm AA guns).

I speed tweaked it to 160 knots to make it fast and maneuverable against Yamato in Duel Lv10. Also, the positioning of the Mk45s allow all 6 to fire forward. With the right burst placement and some maneuvering, it can beat Yamato in less that 5 game minutes (with some damage), mainly by capsizing it (as outright pounding is not possible with the weak 38cm guns). I'm fine with this, since the Richelieu would not have been able to stand up to the Yamato or Iowa (or even the Bismarck) in real life.

Still, I haven't let go of my super warship (day)dream. Cheers!