Panocek

Well, its just animation which may or may not be tied to reality.

That much I know. Yet I had instances of skimming by AA for two-three seconds with no damage taken with tracers clearly coming. If I bump into it again I'll post replay. But then I don't have incentive to play carriers anymore

As if only way of handling things for WG is gulag way...

Technically only 2-3 out of entire TB squadron go down, so rest of the planes might still be seen and shot at. But what I've noticed AA animations aren't exactly in sync with receiving damage - barely touching enemy AA for few seconds you can clearly see guns opening up, yet no damage, be it flak or dps taken. Other times planes suddenly start smoking with no tracers in the air

I don't have particular "need" for fox twins besides current goalpost being collecting them "coz rare", even more so as "main CV" is already covered by Enty+Yorktown. I guess the same story like with WoWs - you can have fun with lowtier boats or your first tier 10, but it gets dull quite fast.

I've nicked Sirius myself from 8 ship batch. Besides research purposes and maybe CV buffs I can't really find purpose for her, no voiceover either (yet) and totally not fanservice "quest" of her. And from running fox mine several shipgrills started developing stockholm syndrome

And only BBs and singled out DDs you can realistically keep spotted, as almost all cruisers have aerial detection equal or smaller than AA range. Then you have consumable fighters which are pretty much unavoidable unless you have full boost and LOOOONG straight line available. And even then they probably will catch up to you and delete your squadron. I'd advise avoiding CVs until WG rolls back nerfs. Which may or may not happen anytime soon, as if we go with recent WG emplyee words, T10 CV dealing about as much damage as T10 cruiser (circa 60-70k dmg/battle) seems to be their goalpost, which is why nerfed Midway TB to match gutted Haku.

For starter, you don't turn around within any AA, you zip past it then turn around, wait for engine boost to recover a bit and then give another go, provided planes aren't shrekt to start with. But no matter how git gud you get, you will get deplaned due to losses of returning planes anyway.

Midway Tiny Tims seems to be unaffected, combined with better accuracy they still remain viable. Still, you don't even need "AA build" on most cruisers as either they will be hilariously ineffective regardless how many skills you tack to them or they will mow down planes due to base dps/flak values, further buffing is bordering on overkill. Even with WSAD, simply flyover with single rocket run over Wooster WITHOUT DFAA ends with at least half the squadron gone.

But you can't avoid dps, which is extra useful now for making sure CV won't comeback for a while, as you farm his planes on RTB. Also fighter consumable, be it catapult of summon variety is ridiculously effective and basically unavoidable now.

That would be 4th rework for this rework

Boosting away isn't an issue (usually). But you can't keep them lit up for teammates to fire back without sacrificing planes.

Dunno if interested for regrinding Midway or splashing monies for some pay2noob experience. But who knows, if WG won't swing nerfhammer other way...

I see plenty of butthurt from BB players when I somehow land 6 Midway torps for total of... 10k dmg One explanation would be planes being picked up by radar. On other hand, one would expect some sort of binoculars on board for squadron leader to improve standard issue eyeball mk.1 But hey, don't apply logic to wargaming actions at times, it might end badly for the logic

Its not like baBBies aren't main WG customer and playerbase...

pay2noob and unfair plane

There is no stealth AA as of firing at planes without being detected - you need smoke for that. BUT, with 1km margin between AA range and aerial detection Mino/Wooster can make quite an ambush, also you can't spot them without receiving considerable long range dps + flak. In clan battle condition, or at least in 3man platoon you can hope for team/division mates to shoot at lighted up AA cruiser when you're basically feeding your planes to the AA. And RPF is already scheduled to be disabled from planes

TL;DR WG cannot into balans

Then there is question what damage brackets wants for CV - if we go with player available maplesyrup website, Hakuryu post nerf went down to 65k avg damage, while T10 BB in comparison deal between 78k to 99k, and they aren't MM limited to two per team "CV can spot" now applies to BB mostly, as you can't spot cruiser without entering its AA. DD concealment actually makes them surprisingly sneaky, which I guess is a good thing.

So I've managed to actually play few battles. Bumping into Minotaur/Wooster is lethal as expected, but summonable fighters seems to be real killer now - they obliterate entire squadron even faster than before and tactic it seems to be to plant them simply onto attacking enemy squadron for free 5+ plane kills. You can't outrun them either.

You never were from Freedom Bombers

Server stuck in 7.3 version due to disagreement with company "operating" game in China. And before you go all the hype - pay2win is REAL there AFAIK. Camouflages increasing reload?

You can always try 360noscope when going head on Or use (US) dive bombers and blap poor surface DD peasant for half the hp. Quarter if RNGesus says "nyet"

He means actual Chinese server, not SEA. Server stuck in 7.3 version due to disagreement with company publishing WoWs in China IIRC.

Then there is difference between DD spotting cruiser (or cruiser spotting BB) early and playing around that and planes going fireball just as Minotaur/Wooster pops up spotted.