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Ok so I finally got Ranger CV and it looks good as far as bombing and torping I am OK. But the problem I have is the fighter department. Mostly those IJN CVs tier 7 running 2 fighters squads or even more against my 1 squad. How to approach that kind of configuration? I have seen mostly that at T7 US CVs are using 2Fighters and 1DB. I know I could change my configuration and go 2 fighters and one DB but we all know haw DBs are joke they do not get close to damage of TBs not to mention that they can miss completely that is why stick to the stock configuration which is balanced and works fine unless enemy has more fighter SQ. I do not mind having sometimes a challenge to fight more fighters but this now has become a trend. So to my US CV captains there how you deal with this trend of going against 2 or 3 fighters with just one fighter squadron. I was thinking to try 2F and 1DB but this setup sucks only because DBs sucks since I will not deal enough damage to enemy ships...

I have to agree. IJN squad combinations are much more batter. I just do not understand why WG had to make US carriers sacrifice TB squad to get one extra fighter squad leaving us only with DB while IJN if it goes to fighter configuration still has TB and does satisfactory damage. I wouldn't mind having only DBs and fighters but I think in current state DBs are not near damage that TB can do plus the accuracy is like rolling dice. Sometimes they will miss all we simply do not have much of control how will bombs will hit unlike torpedoes.. So either make DBs dangerous or give us TB squad instead. I have noticed that BB captains even do not care about DB that are coming at them because they know that the damage will be minimal so they sail in a straight line (unless they are on low health) but when they spot TBs incoming they immediately start turning and changing speed so that is the main proof on how much DBs are silly now compared to TBs.

Got my Colorado and did few battles in it. Not bad ship at all. The speed is standard for US BB line. Guns are not that bad I mean when they hit they create big mess especially those IJN ships they are like made out of paper. I score citadels and high damage on them without problems with Mexico and Colorado. Mostly I hate for now that AA (going directly for C hull), rudder shift and speed(which is not the problem for some maps). The only thing I am not sure about is should I get range upgrade mode in a slot? Does it ruin too much the spread? Right now the spread is similar to Mexico spread being that Mexico had more guns to make up for that.

Well thnx guys on response. I will see how things develop and maybe still remain on 1-1-1 set up or if I really get frustrated go to 2-1-0

As I have already said this leaves me with only DBs which deal really small damage leading to small XP. unless you get a lot of XP and credits too by destroying planes?

Well attacking over friendly ships works rarely unless enemy doesn't know what he is doing. So only left to do is to feed him with my fighters while I bomb. This works until you run out of fighters and bombers. I mean they already get peppered by AA and on way home by enemy fighters leading to total loss of squadron usually TBs since good enemy will first attack TBs because they deal most of damage.