Alsace is awful

Honestly just a small rant post, but Alsace is complete dog water. I grinded all the way to her without free xo because Richelieu is genuinely a good ship. She has good range, good damage, and is quite fast, heck, I didn’t even put the improved range mod on her. When I got the Alsace I genuinely expected her to be Richelieu, but with another turret, oh how I was wrong. Her armor is not an improvement, her range is significantly worse, meaning in today’s matches where everyone is sitting at range sniping, Alsace cant do anything, and when I push up a bit to get in range, I get focused down by an entire flank, and half the time I don’t even get to use the back turret. And thanks to the horrible tier 9 matchmaking Alsace is constantly double up tiered and has to fight supershits, which she does not have the armor or HP to do. Alsace is terrible, I will be using free xp to get to Republique ASAP. That is all.