Panocek

You haven't expected actual counter to glorious BB master race from EXTRA glorious nation? Ricochet buff is token one, as I had to try VERY hard to actually score ricochets with Trento SAP. Same with trying to richochet incoming SAP rounds.

Taiho pls

B7A, dedicated dive/torpedo bomber, built and actually saw some service. And probably caused some butthurt among IJN navymen as it was too big to operate from existing Akagi/Kaga/Hiryu/Soryu/Shokaku/Zuikaku and was intended to operate from "next generation of carriers" like Taiho. But that one went down before B7A were even combat ready so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The plane is already in game and WG in their wisdom put them as Shokaku top strike aircraft Also one of the fastest torpedo bombers in the world, capable of 300kts

This is part where you have to choose: way of the baBBy or way of the daDDy

Except P1Y would be too big for CV. It was about as big as B-25. And while US did one off stunt with those, it was far too unpractical, as deck parking for them would at very best complicate other aircraft operations. Assuming you would even land on carrier in first place. Also B-29 with nukes as carrier borne aircraft when?

This might be the part where theory meets practice, as last WG game I've goofed with swapping modules and whatnot was World of Tanks, like six years ago (short barreled StuG ftw) we will see how it goes.

Wooden trainer based on D3A, which would be VERY obsolete as "late war" strike aircraft. I still need to delve into plane swap tutorial properly but I'm thinking of swapping: Shokaku -stock planes replaced with Ryujo top ones (A6M2, B5N, D4Y2) -top planes being current stock ones (A6M5, B6N, D4Y3) fitting as mid-to-late aircraft loadout for Shokek Hakuryu stock and top planes uses A7M, B7A, B7A models, but rename them A7M1/B7A2 for stock and A7M2/B7A3 for top, as those had improved engine (or were planned to have) to justify improved speed

One of somewhat key ingredients for successful carrier borne aircraft is ability to land on one. Which may or may not prove difficult without landing hook and reinforced landing gear. And then there is issue if you can fit plane onto elevator, thus folding wings or overall smaller dimensions may come in handy. Interceptor kinda focuses on firepower, speed, climb rate and presumably high altitude performance to, well, intercept enemy aircraft, usually of bomber variety as soon as alarm is raised. From these traits what you need on carrier borne strike aircraft is climb rate, usually implying good power-to-weight ratio, so you can take of from rather short runway. Rest would be good on a fighter. Not dive or torpedo bomber Also Tenrai, if going by wikipedia had hardpoint for up to 250kg, and I'm somewhat convinced aerial torps or anti ship bombs tend to be heavier. Patch day is tomorrow

GZ in general could be balanced around slow-ish Stukas but with above average plane replacement times. Or four squadrons - rockets, AP bombs, HE bombs, torps, should downtiering her to tier 6, where her early war aircraft complement would be in line with other nations prove too difficult, while improved secondaries would give her legitimate purpose in PvE Operations

Another land based aircraft. And a BIG one at that, closer to medium bomber actually One does not simply check in game? I know its almost 11am, but wake the fluff up and get morning coffee

Twin engine land based interceptor. On a carrier. Carrying torps and bombs. Its rivaled only by Grafs TA-152 in terms of stupid

It applies only to cruisers as tier 8 battleships are more than able to hold their ground, while tier8 DD is sometimes even preferable due to concealment advantage. Byproduct of a game with binary (work-doesn't work) game mechanics, so "jack of all trades master of none" ship class like cruiser usually means you get jack ship from both ends

Or every gun with caliber higher than 420mm can cit Smolensk with HE

That could be the reason I guess I might try to tinker to get AD Skyraiders as top planes for Midway instead Destroyers, or remove that abomination Tenrai is from Haku.

If that rule would stay, then MM would quickly turn towards secondary rule of "jettison whatever I have at hand because time run out" due to having too many T10 ships in queue, which may or may not result in two tier 8 and ten tier 10.

You mean three tier 8, five (premium) tier 9 and seven tier 10?

Flood chance is already next to zero, if was nerfhammered with first hotfix of the REEEwork back in February (?)

7 ships that would be focused by top three as ez dmg.

Because WG wants to deal with one shipstorm at a time?

You mean there are people who don't use premium consumables? And what is this, I wonder?

T10 fighting T10 would happen when T8 is literally desolate spot. It would also means tier 7 again gets preferable MM, as there would be next to no tier 8. Which again ships on new players, who barely got out of tier 4 CV hell, only to enter another one 3/5/7 is literal pattern for teams, no variety like 2/4/9 or somesuch, using WoT 15 players team composition. So for WoWs we could expect 2/4/6 to fit into 12man teams?

Keep in mind tier 8 is full of historical ships which are very fun on their own right, when not subjected to thorough anal inspection by MM. I wouldn't be surprised if many players would have preferred to stop at tier 8 but are kinda forced into tier 9 and 10 if they intend on "having fun"

Which I guess will happen... only when MM fails to assemble 3/5/7 game due to not enough fillers in queue before timer runs out.

If amount of tier 10 in queue will not change, instead having few T10 heavy games and then being top tier yourself, either due to current "relief" MM rule or simply not enough T10s in the queue, you will be bottom tier against few tier 10 constantly.

"Spreadshiet says there is a correlation between amount of active tier 10 players and income generated"