OVanBruce

Mate, you can perfectly take on a Bogue in your Langley unless he's using the air superiority setup. Just defend your torp bombers all the time with you fighters. If he attacks your torp bombers, attack his fighters with yours. If he wants to attack your fighters, run from then and try to get then over an allied ship with decent AA like a Myogi or an Omaha.

Until Minekaze, you play to connect all your torps or at least halve of then. From Minekaze onwards, you play to connect 1 or at best 2 of your torps from a full salvo. It's boring, Its unrewarding. You just sail around, look for the best position and pray for your torps to not be detected by the gazillion planes on the sky and that the players you are aiming your torps at are dumb. Then, your torps get detected by proximity, lots of enemy captains would have the increased torp range and since detection range of your torps are based in their maximum range sometimes the enemy would have 10 or even 12 seconds to manouver after seeing the torps. Rinse and repeat. In the end, you spend a whole match running around and considering yourself lucky if you manage to connect 6 or 7 torps. pretty silly numbers compared to the 10 or 12 you get from a regular Minekaze match. They should increase the damage of each torp dramatically imho to make hitting with one torp out of 9, in the Fubuki, actually rewarding.

Mogami and Aoba were as fun to play for me as Zao, with the advantage of actually not having to sell an eye if you messed up.

You are a very very bad person and I hate you. I bet you also sold the Aoba, which would make you a monster.

Well, tough luck. As long as it didn't repeat all the time I'd laugh it off and even ask the Taihou to have mercy on my planes.

Well, then the problem lies on the team. But if you manage your ship properly and have good aim you should be able to deal with any cruiser 1V1

Genai, as a fellow cruiser captain, you dissapoint me. Do you even citadel? 203 mm Mogami is best Mogami simply because well aimed salvoes dish out 15k or more damage.

I'v gone through the lower tiers BB path to get both CV lines. I've use AP almost allways on my BBs. I played all my battles there outside division. Then why do I have a positive winrate in most of then? I think you guys ought to try different tactics on your BBs, because they aren't certainly working. You are made to resist damage but not to be tanks (in an RPG sense). No ship here is a tank.

Well, if you've got allied cruisers and destroyers in front of you you can actually get close. Use then as meatshields. In any case, not all BBs are slow. Myogi, Kongo and Amagi are great for controlling the situation thanks to their good manouverability and speed. It's US BBs that suffer more but then again, they usually have more guns and a better armor.

The mark of a good BB player is knowing how to void situations in which he's gonna get too many HE shells in his hull. Once again your range lets you fire outside of a cruiser's range. Furthermore, by being away you can dodge most shells incoming your way. You recharge every 30 secs so use those to make your ship harder to hit. Once again, avoid 2 Vs 1 or bigger in your BB allways try to look for the 1 vs 1.

An small tip. If you ever find yourself on scope view and want too focus your antiaerial in an squadron without getting out of scope, just go to the map (M key) and select with left mouse button the squad you want to focus your AA, once you do it, click M again to get out of the map and continue shooting if you want.

Implying you cannot like a great girl like Ryoujou. Implying Independence cannot cover for your FREEDOM needs.

I also don't remember any skill or module that increased the range of torps. For the sake of variety, it would be good an skill that made torps invisible for all planes but spotting planes.

Not everyone has rushed through a single line of ships in order to sealclub and farm everyone that's climbing the ladder wether it's doing it in a single line or various. I've played 320 battles and only used the +50% experience in 26 of then. My reward in doing so is that now have 3 tier VI and 1 tier V in which right now I allways get ballanced and challenging matches, which I win, at least most of then. And yeah, I do play all classes, CVs being (temporarily) first.

From my limited experience I can say that on IJN balanced loadout you can survive an strike IJN strike loadout but it's key that you intercept the enemy ASAP. If you manage to find their planes even in a map as small as that first one in which BBs can almost attack from spaw point the other ships your fighters can destroy one enemy squad, run out of ammo, return to your ship, get refitted and send then out again before the enemy bomber reach you.

Allow me to differ, it's absolutely true that missiles has rendered CVs obsolete nowadays. It's much more cheaper and effective to build and mantain 20 land to air and land to land missiles than a single fighter. The problem lies in that if any of the naval powers nowadays decided to fully change its navy to this model it would trigger an armed race like we haven't had since pre WWI. Fortunately, diplomacy is much more effective today than then and the possibly ruinous effects and diplomatic tension that an armed race like that may trigger for each world power can be avoided. In fact, we have never been this close to the return of the battleship, this time as a massive heavily protected missile platform, as the supreme ship of naval engagements since the end of WWII

Guys you've got to take into account that this is the only effective AA of lower tiers. Furthermore, a ship or a group of clever ships can try intercepting an incoming or returning attack planes wave and make then stay in one place while the ships' AA destroy the planes. Obviously, taking into account it is a single plane, if it has the same health as the normal CV fighters it won't last long thanks the the rear gunners of the attack planes. The important thing in the case of this little planes isn't realism or even logic, it is that it enables a new set of strategies for AA defence and preventive offence that for me is very much welcome. In any case, apart from cases when the plane gets bugged, it cannot resist a fighter squadron attack long.

Well, the the engagement and the outcome was justified. a cruiser can be deadly for a BB on close quarters unless the BB has some way to deal with it quick. It's just one of the weapons a cruiser can use to get rid of one of the disadvantages of fighting a BB: citadels.

Nobody wants to have to rely on some random that is in your team just because a (flawed) MM put then there.

Use your range, don't get you into close fights and pratice well your aim. Allways try to know which enemies you may be facing in your way and force then into situations where your range and superior alpha per shell count, try to use the cover of your friendly DDs and CAs to mantain your distance. Playing a BB is all about being patient and taking every step as if you were going to step a mine, there are a lot of hazards out there that can take you out, that's why you've got a big health pool and the health potion.

I didn't go to such lenghts as Cronos (Sasuga germans) but you can certainly go on a Ryuujou with strike setup and if the enemy Independence doesn't have asistance you've got a very good chance at rushing him and sinking him. This only happens in tier VI afaik.

they want you to make then the improved damage repair crew that costs wither 22k credits or 25 doublons.

MM, working as intended

It's a niche game, and I hope it continue to be. Doesn't appeal to every cowaduddy joe out there,