Richelieu - An Example Of Agile BB Positioning

The Richelieu is far from my favorite ship. The guns are terrible and the armor is sketchy, but it does have one strength, speed. Utilizing that advantage is much more difficult in a BB than utilizing armor or guns, which is why the ship can be quite challenging to play. You can find my build at the end.
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[@Flamuu]

I often say this game is maybe 10% Aim, 10% Mechanics and 80% Positioning. This game is a great example of that. Unnecessarily ate two torps instead of one, expecting Bourgogne speeds out of my Richelieu, since I haven't played the Rich enough. Continunously trolled by the guns all game. Yet still able to have significant game impact because of the most important reason, good positioning. Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/ Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu

[@NoahHofer]

And 50% concentrated power of will

[@solaman095]

Hey, I am the guy who asked you to put links in the description. I am an extremely bad german BB player. A very shallow video on how you get to the brawl or how you make your inital decisions. Like in the loading screen you have your decisions made before you load in

[@simplygiga6877]

High velocity guns are a curse and a blessing. This post sponsored by the French BB Gang. Its the same with Republique, as i can sometimes whack someone for 60k and sometimes have the exact same distance and all, but get all overpens. Its cool, though, its a nice secondary ship that i abuse too much.

[@Ace42x]

I've got my worst winrate in the game in the Gascogne; is it just a case that the turret placement makes it worse because of the bad rear-turret angles?

[@jack-qg9ub]

At least you weren't the token t8 cruiser in an almost entirely t10 game

[@declanadair734]

"Close enough so it is impossible to miss" Turret 1: challenge accepted. Turret 2: hold my wine. Gun fire controller: on strike...

[@thomas.02]

18:19 the moment Flamu killed the gearing, he had 27 health left and was flooding. Damn top tier gameplay haven't felt that edge-of-my-seat for a while

[@teh_copbine5081]

*Shoots at broadside battleship* guns: "ooh look dolphins" *shoots tiny moving and maneuvering target* guns: "you have made your last surrender joke!"

[@JockTalk7]

soooo good. i've never played wows i just watch your streams. I'm a chessplayer and the strategy you drop in these games is so satisfying 🙏

[@TheGrandexeno]

Flamu's are not videos, they are classes. Mad respect.

[@peter_patson5497]

Left on 27hp at the end tfw

[@KnodsilMemeMaker]

26 more then you need ;)

[@owo5869]

With flood and more torps coming.

[@peter_patson5497]

Another heart! More happy potatoes!

[@basileus9343]

"Look at this, its the french camo" Oh wow i thought it was dutch for a sec thanks man

[@Gunni1972]

I can almost hear the French cook say: Non, these shells are not ready yet.

[@neilious01]

Those French gunners were pinging off adrenaline rush

[@basedfrog644]

Chat called it last night. This game definitely deserves to be on the KZbin. Should educate plenty of potatoes. GJ Flamu!

[@wombat4191]

Wow. I've been struggling with my Richelieu which I unlocked recently, so I earlier came to see if Flamu has any good tips on the ship. Couldn't find any videos, but now only couple of days later I got one. Thanks, nice timing.

[@schattenviruswot6706]

I played with If HE full secs Kaptain + Build. When you kyte away with your massive secs on the back i got my 110k average At 50 Battles +-. Start of Battle you go in full nose and when the Time says yes you turn behind a Island and do that kyte sec stuff. Works nice on the alsasce too. Its my style so just a idea for you

[@flyingphoenix113]

@@schattenviruswot6706, have been heavily contemplating building a secondary Richie Lulu after seeing how well secondary Jean Bart has performed this season. Is IFHE a must?

[@sirdancealot2645]

This gameplay exactly shows never to give up. Most of the time my team just abandons any hope when in this kind of situation but there are always experienced players in the surviving ships and if you give a little support to them, you might still win the game. (With the help of our lord and saviour rngesus.)

[@FeathorFerengi]

Can confirm the squishy turrets. I have destroyed all turrets on an Alsace before. Her captain was less than impressed.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

I mean, it's turrets are thicker armored than Bisnarcks turrets.

[@Kingpin6100]

Such a hilarious difference between this game and Notser yesterday running to join the rest of his team in a single grid square rather than trying to create a crossfire in a damn Kremlin.

[@jacobcreech4382]

Loving all the uploads. So damn helpful. Subbed here and following on twitch. Keep up the great work.

[@fockewulf9518]

Very nice Flamu. Reminds me of the old umalF days.

[@darthcorbi]

love the hammer/anvil saying, it is the prime example one lears in military tactics training to understand the importance of counter attacks/flanking maneuvers.

[@Taliyon]

God... This felt soooooooo good to watch...

[@humanbeing2009]

After being chased down bow-on by a Riche and eliminated, playing her in a public test too, I was impressed, but...after now learning more details about her from you and others I think I'll wait to acquire her. About the only thing I liked was her speed and firepower when bow-on presenting a small area for enemies to shoot at. That's about it. Think I'll stick with the Lyon a bit longer. Thanks for another great vid and superb play!

[@skeetskeet7041]

Ah yes, the duality of man. Heads, realistic historical ship play. Tails, *French baguette waifu goes brrrrrrre*

[@petiertje]

This vid has some great advise in it. I'm mainly a cruiser and DD player, so the way you positioned yourself etc. to turn a game around seems to be also quite useful in cruisers. Thanks :)

[@nathanellis7819]

Thank you for all the excellent vidoes! Good to have you back on yt!

[@kaalen24]

"My team is the anvil and I will become the hammer". This is top tier gameplay and somehow even better commentary. Entertainment value off the charts. Do the French need buffs?

[@MarcoGn97]

I remember from the stream "I thought I had 20% best spood not this 8%" yes clearly outpotatoed

[@Zelectrocutica]

That Atago have really big balls.

[@radenanggamaulanasoeradira90]

This man is a master of tactic

[@CasualCaptain]

Thx Flamu❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🤘🤘 u did a how to Richelieu as I asked! Thx u so much!

[@AweShiyte]

What a comeback!

[@Dysphoricsmile]

*I Followed and SUBBED to your Twitch! I have been subscribed to this channel for almost 4 years now, you literally had like 1k subs when I subbed!*

[@danforz]

I think you make the best videos by far, but one major request: Can you please stop zooming OUT right before your shells land? We need to see where they hit on the ship.

[@Talguy21]

Fun fact- Before the KMS BB Dispersion buffs, Bismarck/Tirpitz and Richelieu had identical accuracy characteristics. Same dispersion (horizontal AND vertical) and the same Sigma. The only reason Richelieu seems more accurate than Bismarck/Tirpitz is because the guns are much closer together, and because there's two turrets and not four, they all land within two dispersion ellipses instead of four.

[@Dysphoricsmile]

Richelu: "Who are you?" Jean Bart: "You only far better in every way! Except for that 32mm plating..."

[@maximinomorgado2150]

You can never be first if Flamuu is. I love you man. Thanks for your hard work.

[@mickaeldelatre3320]

Done my part by subbing (finally !) Thanks for the VERY useful commentary !

[@killawhale8726]

"Worcester is infamously hard to citadel" As someone who plays Wooster: what the actual fuck? in what world?

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

The Richy Lulu can be a blessing with the speed, and the bane of your existence when facing tier 10's exclusively.

[@Terrathrax]

Helluva comeback damn.

[@haysnairte4]

Doing exactly this, straight push from the start, proceed if enemy team bulk is on the other side, retreat when enemy gang up on my side, will mostly able to get away with superior speed + long range Gun, very agile BB

[@muhammadmaulana7874]

This is high level strats. Lets see how it works with carrier

[@Flamuu]

No fun tactics work with a carrier. It's blob up or be farmed, hence why most experienced players heavily dislike them.

[@muhammadmaulana7874]

So you mean carrier gameplay is pretty RNGish at the moment? If so, well i do agree tho. Sometimes i decide to support my team blob only to have them blown up or overextended for whatever reason. Sometimes i chose to support small flotilla of ships, but turns out they are blokes and pretty much ruined that flank. Decide immediatly to support other flank, but it is too late.

[@jonathanwennstromm1578]

@@muhammadmaulana7874 that's not what he is saying. Rng means random, nothing random about cvs. You get farmed if your on your own hence you blob up against aa.

[@muhammadmaulana7874]

Well thats true until you get teammates who decide that the best tactics is to ram their ship to enemies while shouting "tennohika banzai!!"

[@pegzounet]

Very informative, thanks

[@jarrusjenkins]

Flamu, how come you're skirting around all the RN BBs? A commentary on them would be really helpful, Thanks keep up the good work

[@IsKor06]

She may not be the best T8 BB, but I had a blast with her :)

[@clikzip]

Great video as always my dude, already subbed and following.

[@PiratariP]

Man you are too good for this game

[@thomas.02]

had to come back to make this comment: right after watching this video and returning to youtube's homepage, the algorithm recommended Rogue One's Darth Vader scene

[@tonyennis3008]

I don't seem to have the option for the speed boost modifier (second mod from left).

[@samuelwong4152]

well played

[@fawwazmori8111]

do you play jean bart like the richelieu?

[@oddmanout4256]

They're practically the same thing so yes.

[@VuHien2011]

@@oddmanout4256 yes, a Jean Bart is a Richelieu with better accuracy, better reload time and with a reload booster. It also has better AA.

[@jamespfp]

15:23 -- *LULZ* so I intentionally didn't give this video a Thumbs Up until the Mogami died. :D

[@samuelwong4152]

To make use of Rich's secondaries, u should show some broadside, it wont be effective if you nose in. Overally I think Rich's fast gun turning speed and 25km firing range are the reason you should use it. It just not a brawler with thick armor. Imagine its a super cruiser, and play it like a cruiser.

[@paccin339]

This ship is good fun

[@Patrick-cc3ub]

Bb positioning I wish I had that

[@quoniam426]

You would have been better going o the left f the sland at the end instead of going to the right. And contrary to popular belief it is quite consistant at longer ranges. Hitting CVs for a living t max range with this thing. Quite convenient sometimes to have Yamato like range in tier 8. I've hit a a GK and citadelled him at 23 kms yesterday.

[@cwjian90]

Would you trade Expert Loader for Preventive Maintenance? Since the turrets are an issue

[@trlacr1781]

Worcester doesn't have a 30mm upper belt I think, only the deck

[@xmlthegreat]

Flamu pls do a Lyon video, I can't seem to get those guns to work

[@btheb4272]

GODDAMMIT... you are scary, man!!!

[@arifilmiawan9111]

great sample ... most of my mistake turn away from the torp... not new advice but good to remember it always... and FYI .. SILIWANGI is a name of one of Indonesia, WEST JAVA King .. just like the other ship... Henry the IV, King George .. name after their king

[@Rotschwinge]

Yeah, but sometimes you want to eat them, especially in a "slow" BB or when a cv drops you, cuz it will force you otherwise in huge trouble due to the fucked up positioning.

[@watchthe1369]

I have yet to find out exactly how twitch works, I guess I am dumb. I stick over here.

[@dancasey9660]

Love the camo!

[@miked815]

omg.... dd yolo rushers make my anxiety flare, especially since the yolo rusher is always on my team. love losing most forms of spotting on the side im on within the first 3 minutes....

[@elin0s]

Could you Cover Monarch after als it’s changes? :)

[@ion282]

this ship is dam too easy to play. Even vs T10, u can do very easely 100k dmg each battle! Last time I used it, 220k dmg vs t10 .... u can surprise ennemies with your concealment and punish them

[@randyscraft]

Great tactics, however in the Asia server this would never work. Last night 3 games in a row we had 4 carrier s how you played that would have been failer. They would farm you to death as you had no other ships with you. Still impressive to watch.

[@BizonthePhoenix86]

How did you get the “Maid of Orleans” camo?

[@justalog7475]

"An Example Of Agile BB Positioning" *Stares at my 40% WR on this ship conspired to the 60% on any other class* I guess I suck at this

[@tonyennis3008]

Gotta have concealment expert and the concealment mod. Else you're always spotted and you get chased to death.

[@TK-fk4po]

Wow. Fantastic game.

[@estoyaqui5386]

Can this build be applied 1:1 to Jean Bart?

[@MrKamil942]

I love DD apes

[@caboosehelpsu2840]

On paper, I didn't like the looks of Richelieau or Al's-sauce, but they were just hella fun to play, despite the IJN "AA" destroyers.

[@rowinglove4ever]

If you kill the hole fleet yes! It will be a winn lol

[@jameskerr3258]

Win Harder

[@Dulee100]

U r nuts dude.

[@praoscrihdoe5463]

Not from the front... but from the side, from the flamu u didnt even know was there

[@DarthMcLeod]

Why go after the Gearing? Sure get better score, but you were going to win on points anyway...

[@ikerlugo7644]

"With the speed boost" all day long at 3/4 lol

[@terulien7015]

What's wrong with MM here?

[@SerialSniper14]

If you can git gud with Richelicious, JB is a blast

[@samuelwong4152]

Just use HE, it will do damage. Just picture Rich as a German BB, you will have no problem playing it

[@solaman095]

Commenting so youtube algorhythm recognizes this as interaction etc.

[@D3monL3A1]

do mainz video pliz

[@avgjoegaming8271]

Richelue is why I stopped grinding this line. Guns consistently suck. Has what I call 4 corners dispersion. Aim at a ship and miss entirely where each shell goes on each side of the target. 1 top left/right 1 low left/right Thing still dips .5 km at point blank

[@khalidgagnon8753]

Ricleleau: The worst tier 8-battleship The best tier 8 heavy cruiser though.

[@lievenpetersen]

18:17 that's 27 HP xD

[@montagistkacke7431]

and flooding. Half a second later, and he would not have survived the battle.

[@mrbruhman8842]

Feel bad for his original squadron like their entire purpose for the sake of the game was getting fucking murdered first thing

[@belsteed6050]

Richelieu is the noob friendly push and play BB, if you respect her only weakness you’ll have the best time in a BB

[@Skiesaremine]

Could someone explain why cv rework is bad? I am not a wows player

[@VuHien2011]

CV is bad to the game because usually, CVs are targeting the opponent players that are helping their team. The players that are actively trying to win are usually the one in the front and shooting. They are very visible to the CVs and they are targeted. In the meantime, the passive players sitting in the back of the map are not harassed by the CV. Another interesting aspect of the game is about concealment. Usually, weakly armored ships have a good concealment to compensate for their weakness. But CV ruins that balance factor because it can spot the ships with the best concealment making the game unbalanced. And then, it is very frustrating that CVs can punish any opponent while sitting in the back of the map in all safety. The game is designed in the way that a CV is even safe to its counterpart. A CV will not attack the enemy CV until it is the last enemy ship on the map.

[@Skiesaremine]

VuHien2011 I see, then if carrier is so good, why everybody ain’t playing them?

[@VuHien2011]

It is not so much that they are good (although if you are in a tier 10 CV, you can can do 10000 damage a salvo shooting rockets and that does not require any skill whatsoever while you are so happy hitting a citadel in a BB which does around 10000 per shell). It is the fact that it disrupts the game so active players are punished, passive players are rewarded, DDs cannot do their job. Players tends to regroup together in the spawn hoping to add up AA, waiting for something to happen.

[@Skiesaremine]

@@VuHien2011 However, isn't the flying shimakaze strategy a deadly counter for battleship camping at the spawn? because the more they cluster up, the more torpedoes they are gonna hit?

[@VuHien2011]

@@Skiesaremine CV players tend to avoid flying over enemy ships to reach a ship at the back of the map. This only happens in the middle of the game when the enemy team started to disperse and you can see a path to your target without suffering losses from AA on your way to your target. Another annoying thing about CVs is the fact that if you have a good CV on one side and a bad one on the other side, the good CV player tends to have a free meal on the enemy team as the bad CV player does not even try to send fighters to protect his team.

[@spaceman2115]

People see me repositioning in my Alsace so that i don't get spammed down by IFHE spammers and somehow i'm a coward that doesn't want to engage the enemy lol. Meanwhile the rest of my team suicide into the enemy team.

[@rpra6435]

When i played WOWS - Richelieu was terrible for me. No resiliency (easly to he spam to death).

[@MrRay168]

Not parking nose in besides an island for eleven minutes and then head out going ham? Oh wrong flam...

[@lidlpotato2047]

ZAO VIDEO COMMENT ANNIVERSARY this is Attempt #10 Please make it happen flolo

[@incainca9440]

For the love of god make a yorck commentary

[@jacqueswan2867]

The turret weakness is too obvious to be exploit.

[@Geg9449]

I player this bb for the First time today. I f*cking killed a Yamato with One salvo

[@MohdArif-pl3sy]

Flamu Richelieu gameplay: Zipping around battlefield and active maneuver with speed advantage. Actual Richelieu and Jean Bart gameplay: Move forward, then reverse in the open while shooting HE and hoping to bow tank HE cruiser.

[@horror11]

how can a gearing get spotted by a musashi omg , a good dd player would have still won this game

[@montagistkacke7431]

27 HP and flooding at the end... if you would have fired half a second later, you would not have survived

[@jonathanwennstromm1578]

The one thing I honestly dislike is people like flamu, notser and so on doing things like aiming to low and then complaining about it 🤦‍♂️

[@gregkramer5588]

I noticed that many times in this video.

[@MushroomGirlDethcapp]

Obligatory comment for interaction

[@wedmunds]

French BB positioning? You mean, running away when your DD dies?