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Depends how badly sigma will be affected. Knowing WG, they will set it negative, so it will be guaranteed to land on the edge

Not exactly new thing, as Freedom DB on anything except Midway/Haku deck I'm almost amazed WG didn't took Midway's 2000lb bombs and replaced them with Lexi 1000lbers. I mean, how come USN carrier can just ship on glorious Russian Engineering with 60mm deck

I'm not so sure, dispersion seems simply elongated, just as described. And upon rereading announcement, this time without Cpt. Morgan influence, DBs get basically sigma nerf current (0.8.3 live) in comparison

Which due to CV rework turned from meme to meta

And Salem fits the bill just fine, in not beating "super cruisers" in survivability due to lol heal.

Have you ever got an idea AA on some ships is weak because it fits for their balancing and/or was historically lacking? Musashi is overpowered on all stats compared to other tier 9 BBs with AA being one clear weakness.

https://www.twitch.tv/flamuu/clip/ModernCheerfulCheetahRiPepperonis That might be it

Both AP and HE deal "penetration damage", recoverable with standard heal by 50%, 100% for overpens, fires and floods. Tea heal on Odinburger and above recovers 60% AP/HE pens and 50% citadel IIRC.

Technically, planes who dropped their payload could join main wing and then manually return as unit to carrier. How exactly you could land multiple planes I don't know besides "get within 1km and press F". But then some considerable alpha buff is in order as most of the time you will spend buzzing around and dying from boredom. I think old RTS damage values could be decent start

This is part where you experience Capitalism: Russian Edition

Which is the point. Potato willing to pay, not necessarily able to play is best customer to keep money flowing

Well, WG assumed player is potato enough to lose most if not all planes in squadron but can at least land SOME ordnance in water and hopefully on target. And sure, you can launch another flight of the same plane type instantly... but at roughly half strength. And due to how AA dps work, unless you have a plan how to carry out attack, they are going to get brutalized even faster.

Damage saturation, yes, it can and WILL happen even with single torp hits. DD bow/aft have very small hp pool per segment and its not uncommon to land hits like you've did.

IJN rockets are of lower quantity, not quality. Hakuryu drops 6 per plane, but each rocket deals more than Zao shell and they are more accurate than HVARs on Midway... which actually have THE lowest dmg potential, coupled with largest dispersion. Saved by 32mm HE pen, rendered obsolete by TiTs.

IJN rockets are reasonably accurate to compensate for lack of fireworks. USN HVARs are ones who got repeatedly brutalized and they are THE shower. No idea about Audacious. And considering recently announced changes to carriers... their damage output is "ok" for WG, don't expect any changes in terms of rockets.

http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/ShipAvgList/ShipAvgList.html Thats recent Fuso stats on EU. She is perfectly fine stat wise, even leading in most stats, so should difference between her and other silver BBs increase, she would be first for axing. Giving her camo buff just because would turn her overpowered.

And boost speed goes away (a bit). Considering thats the only nerf, with DB seemingly getting mechanic change than nerf (allows for more precise drops but also enables evasion for DD), CV averages are basically a-ok for WG. Extra losses coming from slower boost might be later compensated by hp/alpha, especially if WG figures out how Sector is supposed to work this time around.

To actually hope for "dev interaction" you're on wrong forum to start with, they reside on RU. Occasionally Sub_Octavian pokes around reddit, on EU he comes usually with fire extinguisher to handle brewing dramas. And Fuso gets top kek concealment because concealment is first assumed based on how tall ship is, then adjusted if needed. Considering Fuso still remain golden standard of T6 BB with reload, armor, firepower and serviceable speed... I don't see camo change happening anytime soon. The same reason Pensacola had larger surface detection than her gun range for years.

If you buff their HP and alpha in return

Which is exactly their purpose. Easy to aim and do *something*, but to actually wreck DD you need RNGesus blessing. About as often as devstrike in a BB. Can happen, but for that you need approval from RNGesus himself in three copies, signed by uncle Stalin himself.

They never were the problem since last nerf in 0.8.0.whateverhotfixitwas

So are Yolorados rushing each other at almost 180km/h speeds. If you apply "real life" speed scaling to planes and everything else at 5x, you might find your bombers outrun by a Kebab... Then ask WG what's wrong was with <2% CV playerbase then

Lemming trains and "cap is lava" always were in fashion. This year, last year, three years ago. You could pull off some solo yolo shenanigans, but if RTS carrier found you, you were equally deep in ship as you're now.