Karasu_Browarszky

@FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor

Use a full AA build. Problem solved!

WG wants you to join the Dark Side. Pro tip: they got cookies!

So... active non-campy blob might be the answer? Maintain formation and screen for maximum AA bubble effect. Shatter opposition, re-deploy, rinse and repeat. Requires team play capable teams.

Yeah, 3 DD's with a balanced torp/gun build selection could devastate the enemy flank by flank. IMO, you wouldn't want to split it up too early but use the division initially for maximum impact.

This map size is an overall problem in WoWS when it comes to the higher tiers. Almost as if they had optimized the game for tiers 1 to 4, and added all the later tiers into the same matrix. The technology of the eras the game covers are so vastly different from each other, that they should have basically designed the game anew to match tier progression. They didn't, though, and we get to enjoy the mess.

So why does that happen to me all the time..

It's one of those vexed issues, IMO. They break the lower tiers, but.. historically speaking, the carriers need to be present in WW2 tiers, and they would need to be present in some scenario battles as well. Ideally, the question is how to manage that without breaking game balance in the process.

Curious, what led you to that assumption?

This is their combat role... and for this reason you would either have carrier battles or engagements where the carriers are either absent or capable of only fulfilling a support role. For reasons of variety, we need both IMO, but perhaps the carrier battles should be a separate mode like I posted above, because the meta is so completely different from cruiser/DD engagements, or engagements where the BB's are the most lethal capital ships around.

Watching out for radar and planes you can try to actively spot the enemy screen in the hopes that your team is actually one of those rare teams good enough to actually shoot at them.

There's an added problem with DD's between you and your target. They will give early warning to any BB's behind them so they will have plenty of time to evade your torps.

Will depend on CV, radar, and enemy DD's. If you manage it, you will probably hit better, though. Mind you, German BB's are especially bad cause they can detect your torps early enough to completely avoid them even at short ranges.

I may have some Goth ancestors!

Wut?

Massive fraud...

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Seems they will dodge them anyway... except for the unlucky few who have yet to discover the Secrets of the WASD.

Well, we get a lot of Tier X only battles now, do there must be less of those 8-10 battles (presumably). All of this could have been easily avoided if WeeGee had opted for era based balancing instead.

Yeah, it ain't just the CV's that are a problem, though I think the distribution could be different and maybe we should have a separate 'Carrier Battles' mode not just randoms, in which case there shouldn't be any CV's in the randoms but this might just be a 'dream' knowing WeeGee. There's a ton of other things that needs to be fixed, not just the CV's. I've seen the game go from very promising to very frustrating during the past 5 years. Not happy about it.

Sorry to break this to you, but this is a 'known issue'. As you said, it's not really misleading but, as always, with WeeGee you have to read the fine print. Anyway, enjoy your new ship!

Premium advice, cheers!

Thankfully a sale I don't have the slightest interest in.

Ee...uhm... We had a fantastic battle. I'll leave it to @Khaba_Gandalf to fill in the particulars.. as they were, while I make myself scarce.