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Actually WG confirmed recently that CVs can't be detonated.

Was wondering about that too. According to this she does have significantly better pen with the 406's at close/mid range than with the 420's.

If you are incapable of recognizing and/or defending yourself against a snipe then it is in fact more than fair that the opposing CV gets the kill on you and makes the battle better for his team. After all you must have either zero awareness or be incredibly trash with your fighters to even get sniped. If you get sniped too often, go quit your whining and learn to play. You have the match time in the upper right corner of the screen. You have the minimap on the bottom right. You have fighters to defend your teammates and yourself with (and no, using your fighters to escort your strikes in is stupid as all out as long as enemy aircraft exist). If you use all the tools at your disposal in a correct manner it is impossible, literally 100% impossible to get sniped. Git gud.

- most accurate BB in the game - "wildly spray around" - lolwut

Uh, isn't there already a client for Mac? I thought they released that like 2 years ago or so.

Voice lines are tied to their position in the unit selection bar and not to keys. This is true for any game, really. E.g. if you assign the key "0" to a unit called Squad 2, it will still say "Squad 2" in voice lines and not miraculously turn into "Squad 0" because voice lines are pre-recorded and tied to the unit, not your hotkeys.

Nothing is wrong with torpedoes, they've already been nerfed into oblivion for some. Nothing is wrong with HE spam, it has already been nerfed hard. Lack of AA at T4/5 is a bit of a problem, but it no longer matters as T4/5 CVs nowadays can only auto drop. If you can't dodge an auto drop, l2p. BBs can no longer be reliably citadel'd across all tiers (with very few exceptions) because BBs have been buffed hilariously. All of this was caused by people who "love playing BBs". So yeah, go deal with your legacy.

Nope. As a workaround just use manual drop. Unless ofc you are still at T4/5. Nothing you can do about it then.

Guns.

Deck penetrations do not exist unless overmatched thanks to the auto bounce mechanic. This is no bug, Republique's armor is in fact working as designed. If you do the quick maths (*insert meme here*), 72-82mm armor is less than 200mm penetration.

Half a year or so.

Just keep your expectations low. That way you won't be disappointed when you get worthless stuff, but you'll be pleasantly surprised if you do get something good.

That wasn't an option because the former Kongo stock hull was the original BC configuration.

So, I unlocked the Hindenburg recently. Oh my. OH MY.

Typical BB behavior. Nothing we can do about it.

If your goal is to earn as much exp and credits as possible you can disregard potential damage entirely as it is proven that it barely earns you anything. If you want to be useful for your team, there's no easy answer, really. Tanking places more emphasis on when rather than how much. Distracting your enemy by making him fire a few salvos in your direction can be far more crucial than standing in the middle of a firestorm all day depending on the situation.

Well, finally got a piece of Russian bias. Btw, Gangut is a FAST BB? In what weird world does that even make sense?

Republique has a shallow turtleback, which means shells hitting below the waterline only need to defeat 32mm side plating + 40 to 50mm citadel bulkhead to score a citadel hit. I'd assume that's simply how she was designed. I wouldn't be surprised if WG extends her belt further down to prevent this from occurring however.

Comrade... On a more serious note, how come Enterprise is considered too strong nowadays? She has good stats but that's to be expected considering everything I stated above, really. Assuming an equally high skill level Shokaku is more than a match imo. (Also E was buffed with the 6th slot during testing because she was too weak.)

You're seriously complaining about CV sniping? What year is it, 2015? Really, if you are incapable of defending yourself from a snipe you're doing something horribly, horribly wrong.

Well, yeah, in terms of statistics Kaga is overperforming, but that should hardly be surprising. Experienced CV captains are in short supply as it is and very few vessels at her tier are specialized in AA defense. This means that in the vast majority of games Kaga is capable of leveraging her ludicrous advantage in strike potential, but becomes completely useless the moment things don't swing her way. This is why I stated that Kaga is both weak and strong. Against a good enemy CV playing Hiryu/Saipan she stands no chance, but she will dominate in almost any other scenario.

Indy is serviceable at her tier. She can hold her own against even AS Ryujo if needed. Both Ranger and Lexington are vastly outperformed by their IJN counterparts. Essex enjoys a slight edge in air control over Taiho but has vastly inferior striking capability. Midway is pretty much on par with Haku, having slightly better air control but slightly inferior firepower. Honestly I'd recommend switching to IJN CVs. The lessons learned with IJN CVs are transferable, the ones with USN on the other hand not for the most part. If you have any further questions, feel free to stop by in the CV section of the forums.

Not really. Langley and Bogue used to be superior to their IJN counterparts until alt attacks were removed. Their stats however were held back by countless morons playing AS Bogue and the vast majority of players in general not using manual drops. Without manual attacks IJN CVs reign supreme due to their ability to cross drop, thus guarantee fair damage even when only using auto drop. Indy stacks up fairly okay against Ryujo. She suffers from a severe lack of reserves which makes playing her effectively rather tough, but 1/1/1 is a perfectly serviceable loadout for T6. Ranger and Lexington are in further need of loadout adjustment, that's true. Having only a single fighter squadron is too severe of a handicap. Kaga is the 2nd weakest T7 CV by far. She's at the same time extremely overpowered. How? Well, she trades all air control for ridiculous strike potential, so if the enemy CV is decent and playing Saipan/Hiryu a Kaga will get shut down no matter what she does. On the other hand if the enemy CV is a potato Kaga can strike most targets at her leisure. Enterprise is not overpowered. She simply benefits a lot from her circumstances (something that can be said about all CVs, really). She's a premium that stacks up well against the most powerful tech tree ships, such premiums in general tend to overperform in statistics. Not to mention she benefits hugely from BBs vulnerable to AP bombs flooding MM. She also has a ridiculous skill floor, far higher than any ordinary CV, translating into only experienced CV players being capable of succeeding with her, which narrows down her playerbase even further and allows those that excel have much bigger influence on her stats. E.g. the top players listed on her page in warships.today alone represent almost 10% of her total games played. I don't think anyone cares about the GZ anymore at this point. She was bound to end up as a disaster. The only problems with Essex are her ludicrous service times (that plague USN CVs in general) and the fragility of her TBs. Her fighters and DBs are perfectly fine. I'd call Midway vs Haku pretty even right now. Haku maintains higher strike potential, Midway has the edge in air control. Both have ample room to outplay each other. Midway could use a slight cut in her service times but again that's something affecting all USN CVs. On a sidenote, average EXP is a fairly meaningless stat as each ship has its own individual exp modifier, with premium ships usually having higher ones than normal ships even without camo. So one ship may earn more exp than another even if they both did the exact same things. Likewise K/D ratio is meaningless as it rarely ever matters if the hull of a CV survives. A CV may get deplaned within 10 minutes in a match, thus having no more impact whatsoever, but can simply survive until the end by sailing along the map border or using island cover. And on the off chance that it does matter then the opposing team has severely misplayed anyway and doesn't deserve to win.

You can't select two squads with shift + left click box anymore either. You either have to box them both or you need to use shift + number keys. Also aircraft no longer have voiceover. Genius WG. Absolutely genius.

Apparently yes.