I have had a very long discussion with SDE about what is possible and what is not possible
with the Richelieu.

First of all I had a few options:

1. leave it as it is
2. Change the back 3 R slots into T slots, remove the back R sailor totally and give it an
extra support sailor to compensate.
3. A sort of mix of 1 and 2

After discussing it with SDE, option 2 is NOT possible. It appears a normal ship must have
2 R and 2 T sailor positions. SDE won't allow anything else, as the player might be in
trouble with the next ship if there is only 1 R position and the next ship needs 2. This
kind of makes sense to me. This same request was also refused for NFEU.

Now that got me thinking.

People that have read my previous comments about the Richelieu know that I am quite
annoyed with the 3 rear R positions. Especially now that we have those new 5.1A dual and
quad guns for AA. The Richelieu is the ideal ship for that.

The discussion earlier this morning gave me the following idea:

I included an image for clarity. Red circles would be R positions and blue circles T
positions.

The front R positions would stay unchanged, same for the 4 front T positions.
The 4 mid T positions would also stay the same.
The 3 rear R postions would become T positions (quad AA guns possible)
The 4 rear T postitions would become R (for hedgehogs for instance)



personally I like this way better than it is now with the 3 R positions being used for HH
or even unused at all.

According to the devs this is possible, but they have a concern about it being to powerful
on AA now.

Please give me your opinions about this.