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That damage you see is not "Money-time" damage that wins games, it came too late to matter. Although in both of those games my team was quiet bad, I immediately felt that my impact was not good enough. Both of those games had 4 DDs, both of them had enemy skanes pushing the caps in "Lands of fire" and "North". I couldn't do anything to push them out with TiTs, when you score 3k damage at best with this horrible spread and small rocket size. Making repeated runs with Saipan is also very difficult due to the plane squadron size. In Lexington you approach them from broadside, nuke them for 6k-9k damage and send them back to port within 5 min, because the punishment for rushing a DD with no smoke to cap without any backup should be a quick trip back to port. This wins games, this is why my W/R with lexi jumped from 62% to 69% in a matter of two days, quick, decisive damage that wins flanks, objectives and then the game. THIS is how you win games, dealing 90k damage after the flank is already lost means nothing, its farm damage and nothing more. On that same game, I had enemy tirpitz, that I was struggling to land all 4 torps on him, I only managed to get 3 consistently, which is equal to Lexington. Only with Lexington its a piece of cake to land 3 torps on a battleships of this size that goes in a straight line. If they dodge you usually end up hitting only 2 torps with Saipan and cross dropping is way harder due to the insane aiming time. Whats the point of having slightly more durable planes if you get fewer of them in a flight? This extra bit of HP makes no difference if instead of 3 planes per flight you get 2 and your total squad side went down from 9 to 6, total HP of the squadron is way lower despite having T-X planes. The 2nd game was on "North', again 4 destroyers, Enemy Assasshio and Lightning terrorized my team to the point of wining the game with me unable to punish them properly with TiT's that can barely hit 2-3 rockets in a good RNG roll. Sure, I managed to do 100k+ damage and sink several BBs, but I couldn't eliminate the biggest threats in the game in time to make a difference. I play to win, not to farm damage and boost my stats. I Rather do 50k damage that includes the destruction of all enemy DDs rather than 150k damage on enemy BBs that had minimal effect on the game.

Sigh, I just made the biggest mistake and bought Saipan. After 2 games I didn't want to play this ship anymore. What nightmare this thing is to play. The plane performance is worse than Lexington in every way and so is her killing power and speed. Personally i hate TiTs in tier 8 with Lexi i get FAR FAR better results using HVAR and fishing for broadsides, TiTs are only reliable vs BBs and some cruisers, worthless against DDs. Dive bombers are worse than Lexi, only 4 bombs per drop compared to 6, less chance to get fires and damage was meh, I was hoping that the 67mm penetration will make a difference but bombs were shattering just as the Lexi bombs on some BBs. Finally the Torps.....you get 1 extra torp per drop compared to Lexi.....at the cost of ATROCIOUS aiming time and a god awful diverging "V" drop pattern, making it very difficult to hit medium-sized BBs that aren't tier IX-X with all 4 torps. You can't delete DDs and cruisers in this CV like you do with HVAR Lexi and bombs are less effective at sniping DDs due to their number. Can't believe I went against my intuition and judgement and bought this pile of rubbish. In both games that I played I didn't notice any plane reserve problems and I had no problems minimizing losses so that wasn't an issue for me, the damage potential on this ship just sucks compared to Lexi, this is what is bothering me. I wish I could get a doubloon refund on this ship, man I felt like I dumped 11.9k doubloons down the drain.

Anyone noticed how common are 4 destroyers per team after the patch?

Isn't Atlanta the only radar ship at tier 7?

Snow storms are even more fun, they reduce vision to 5km but only occur on snow/ice maps, but its extremely rare. In all my 1.5k games I only had it once and it was super fun game since it was epicenter and there were some insane clashes, I wish they would occur more often.

Fiji for me.

I just managed to get my 2nd Solo warrior in a tier X game with Lexington. The 4th ship missing is a Henri I managed to kill before the game ended:

i Participated in the event and played some games with Mrconway and Robin, It was a blast and I had a lot of fun. Its a shame though that we could only make 1 game before the staff member had to rotate since I think there were only few of WG Staff members available, would be nice to hang for some more games. I hope you folks at WG can bring some more staff members to play, even those that aren't community managers. I'm looking forward to more events like those in Discord! Cheers.

I just checked the NA forums and some dude posted a battle result with a rented GZ from the new rent bundles. However when I checked the armory I didn't see any premium CV in the available ships for rent in both premium and credit bundles. Did I miss something? can you rent premium CVs somewhere?

Look, I understand that you like playing RN CVs and your doing well with them and that's all nice and well. If you like playing them, then by all means, we play to have fun. The dude above me already posted all the facts you need to know, so Il just add. Understand that Fires and DOTs by themselves don't win and carry games in world of warships, this applies to RN CV in particular. Considering nearly every ship in this game has repair party, more so BBs, fire damage is easily negated, by the time you burn that GK the game will already be over. Alpha damage, and the ability to wipe targets off the face of the map ASAP is what wins games. When you have a Moskva camping an Island and preventing your DDs from capping a point which has critical value to the outcome of the game, you take AP dive bombers and delete said Moskva, you don't go and toy with pea-nut bombs that deal sub 5k damage on a lucky drop. RN CV's, whether you like or not, are good at farming damage and "winning harder", if you think that you contributed to the game by farming 200k damage when your team already secured a win while you were busy doting a single BB the entire game, then I'm sorry but you didn't. "Money-time" damage is where it is, killing destroyers on caps, nuking BBs and securing flanks. RN CV fail at all of that and that's how it is from tier 4 to tier 10, its all the same thing. RN carpet bombers are bad, unreliable, deal little damage and if they don't start fires (because RNG is involved) than you wasted precious time flying those already slow planes and doing 0 damage. Torpedoes are bad, 2 per drop at tier 8, the lowest damage of all carriers, converging pattern that never happens anyway and low killing power. Planes are loaded with rockets that 70% of them miss on a perfect drop on a DD and deal pathetic damage. The entire RN CV line are built on "easy to hit but crap damage", they take minimum skill but the skill ceiling is extremely low and the damage potential is in the mud. Also, US DB are great fire starters just as the Brits, but they also deliver good and reliable damage. This is the current reality, RN CV are far at the bottom of the CV chain,way, WAY below IJN and US, whether you accept it or not.

And non-BB players renting BBs and then proceeding to hug the edge of the map for the entire game /charging head on into the enemy team and suiciding is better?

That's as disrespectful as it gets.

Not even close. US dive bombers deal a lot more direct damage than RN and the damage is more reliable as well. On a perfect drop you can easily get a 10k drop with Lexi, with Implacable your lucky to get 6-7 bomb hits ,at best you will get 6-7k damage if your very very lucky. Tiny Tims and HVAR spam also deal a lot more damage than the RN "Shotgun" rockets. The US torpedoes are WAY ahead of RN in all regards there is no comparison even, better damage and more torps per drop. IJNs is at the top of the chain, they have the best Alpha out of all CVs.

It is true. RN CVs rely on fires to build their damage, they have weak direct damage and therefore can't eliminate priority targets fast enough and put enough pressure to win games.

They will be deleted during the bomb-dive. DBs need the extra hit points to survive and drop the bombs, they spend more time in AA than rocket and torpedo planes, the extra speed doesn't matter if your planes are getting deleted the moment they are within 5.8km of the target. With those pathetic HP numbers, the reserve on the carrier should be equal to Kaga or they should be given the squad heal like TBs.

Ah you're correct, I missed that somehow. Feels like there is an attempt to prevent making german CVs too similar to IJNs, but right now it looks fairly poor.

Don't know honestly , I uninstalled it long ago because I didn't enjoy it.

The game was unsuccessful, especially compared to endless space 2 and Stellaris which are superior. I guess that's WG attempt at boosting its player base, nothing special.

Do you get anything if you already have Master of Orion on Steam?

25 knots torpedoes with 500-700 arming distance. I don't understand how this is going to work. Also, are the AP bombs going to be the "Classic" version, or the GZ version with the round reticle?

Good points. Neptune, ofc, is anything but weak, that's for sure. I just need more time with it and adjust my mind set accordingly.

Well, I think that the 10 crates I got from twitch missions got me enough tokens, I would probably be few tokens short of Skane if I didn't complete them. Except Neptune I tend to play my RN CLs with radar anyway .

I'm not a DD player but I decided to start playing them since I got the EU one for free up to Skane, so Figured il just slap my RN CL mindset on them and try them out in randoms. Visby and Vasteras were OK, but I really enjoyed playing Skane, those rapid fire 120mm are really nice. I think i did over-all fine with them, considering I didn't have a 10pt commander and never played DDs before outside of co-op... At the end i actually went out of my way and got the perma-camo for all 3 of them, I enjoyed playing them.

12 rockets for only 7k damage...RNG was actually in this guys favor....

I don't mind really, I did all directive and the 4 twitch missions and got up to Skane with 190 tokens left. Considering I got all of that for free while playing the game, I don't mind the event at all. I even went out of my way and got the perma-camo for all 3 of them since even though i'm not a DD player, I enjoyed playing them.