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32mm HE pen on bombs. At tier 6 all-or-nothing armor scheme isn't that popular (yet). Even IJN cruisers have reinforced deck which can be cringeworthy when you need to kill one ASAP. Tier 8 keeps the same HE pen, so same issue when facing ze Germans and anything with reinforced deck. Not sure if tier 10 gets any improvement

TB are sort of strong point of the UK, "dive", or rather horizontal bombers are more of an anti capital ship/large cruiser tool due their dispersion. Which would be fine if not for their low HE pen, often defeating the point. They are surprisingly decent at decapping smoked DDs, as you don't need direct hit to decap. Rockets are rockets, they are very fast though so next to no lead is needed. I don't see why I'd want them over US or even IJN carriers to be honest.

Haku since recent buff is more than fine IMO, just entire IJN line is shoehorned into "anti capital ship" role, leaving them wanting against destroyers, something Midway excel at with dive bombers while being no slouch at attacking bigger ships. Haku and even Shokek TB with some practice and use of their heals can withstand quite a lot of abuse and then you have two full squadrons ready

Now you mention it, I've noticed some "working as intended" behavior with fighters either following returning wing or straight up disappearing without obvious cause

Which is less than current Haku + modules, as ship itself costs now 28mil, 2.5mil for each upgraded aircraft, so 38mil in all inclusive option.

50k dmg can be a lot or can be entirely inconsequential. 50k dmg done by blasting two destroyers and then touching cruiser in inappropriate places have way bigger effect on battle than molesting backline Conqueror with fire/flood damage, which is fully recoverable.

To quote @MrConway (?) from one of early streams about new CVs - if you hear crying coming from both sides, you can assume you're in somewhat balanced position

TiTs were designed with idea of bigass rocket with enough range to launch them outside effective AA range, which would be gimmick in and of itself. Though their payload isn't that impressive, around 67kg explosive compared to 1000lb (270kg explosive), which you would consider "lethal" for a smaller ship

I'm quite sure no one would bat an eye if "historically fitting" Stuka would fly faster than usual or withstand "balanced" amount of punishment. Whole drama would be fixed by simple name and model swap

Which would hold water except old T8 Gimmick Zeppelin had Stukas and they were fine

Issues like these I've reported back in 0.8.0 PTS I think, guess their priority Also IJN plane selection and naming convention is all over the place, surprising as pre rework it was fine. B7A used on Shokek (not fitting into elevator well, thats why Taiho had larger elevators to accomodate new gen aircraft) and mentioned J5N. C6N at least had "proposed" TB variant, so Also why Haku was kept instead Taiho is beyond me

By extension of that, Fletcher with catapult dive bombers when? I mean, Tone is still somewhere out there, so why not Aviation Derpstroyers?

[insert Fletcher class ship name] uses new player aimed AA guns as gimmick! why test new mechanics with free supertesters if players can pay you for it

This is why you must change tactics. Do you yolo in HARD in battle chock full of radar cruisers too?

Don't go solo yolo adventuring? Little has changed compared to battles pre rework with CV present, if anything DDs got lol aerial detection, so CV needs to literally stumble over you unless you pinpoint your location by, I dunno, capping base? Especially without AA cover

Welcome to tier 10 in tier 8 boat

Damned if you do, damned if you don't Random idea - special MM, to be matched against other "OP" ships, if not available, to be considered as tier higher ship of the same class, but without exceeding normal MM spread. So in Kamikaze example: -Kamikaze is matched against other Kamikazes/Fujins -if no second Kamikaze/Fujin/other "OP" tier 5 DD is available in the queue, match Kamikaze against [tier 6 DD] in tier 5-6-7 battle.

When disengaging you still need to WSAD your way through, "F" key within any AA range is almost guaranteed death sentence as planes fly predictably for about 10s, enough to spawn and get shredded by AA flak. Dive bombers are still subject to RNGesus whims, so nothing hitting target despite you doing everything (presumably) right is working as intended. Though late bomb drops, from (very) low altitude seems to somewhat fix dispersion, or at least I get such impression.

Just unlocked Furious, first test drive in Aegis and... I'm thoroughly not convinced about UK CVs. Low HE pen bombs and rockets, leaving gimmicky TB against capital ships while whole "horizontal bomber" is daft as fluke.

One does not simply Fletcher when playing Fletcher. 24 Essex class would fit in as well, after all CV firepower depends on the planes, so tier 6 Essex in 1941 config, with Dauntlesses and Devastators, tier 8 1943 "long hull" with Avengers and Helldivers with different payload options. Tier 10 post war refit with Banshees and Panthers as rocket/DB only Sky is the limit Tier 6 Saratoga with 203mm secondaries when

Instead "only" I'd permit all ship of the tier AND toss repeating challenge for exp/credits/flag/whatever for "fitting" ships, so you can have dilemma of grinding Hipper in Cherry or Cleveland for extra capt.exp @MrConway food for thought and weekly feedback report

I have kinda hard time placing in game Renown/Repulse and in which year config, as IIRC they got quite a lot of upgrades over time. Also 6x381 guns are not really helping placing her in game *Gneisenau intensifies* Early config Repulse as tier 6, post refit Renown tier 8? Repulse as tier 7 might be better, her "refit" AA is comparable to QE at tier 6, 229mm belt is again in the middle, not helping placing her as cruiser or BB matchmaking wise.

Wait till WG starts adding rest of the Fletcher classThen 27 Clevelands, 14 Baltimores and 24 Essex

More disturbing https://wows-numbers.com/ship/4181702352,Shokaku/ in THAT Shokaku. Which means I'm uberpotato in field of potatoes simply by casually floating through space and time, clicking on red ones?

Considering I can't get deplaned nowadays I guess they did that already