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I feel like we forumites should all join the same team to guarantee success. I vote fire, because fires make BBabies cry.

...So you didn't know that making your bombers attack separately was more effective? o_o If there's one thing that proves we need a proper tutorial, this is it right here.

Oh, right, they got buffed. Totally forgot about that.

No, that's exactly what you're saying. The skill gap is huge, yes, that is indeed a problem, but removing any kind of skill entirely is not the solution. And don't kid yourself, rotating the drop only wastes more time. In high tiers almost any ship will wipe your squads in mere seconds solo and those that cannot are usually agile enough to dodge. Regardless, unless you're going to make automated drops basically aimbot-like they're always going to be worthless. If you honestly believe that rotating a small circle while keeping the position of the enemy in mind a little is challenging then perhaps CV play is not for you. Sure, it's partially WGs fault for not listening to the playerbase and implementing something incredibly stupid, but your unwillingness to learn and adapt certainly doesn't help, either. This is not supposed to be a "click-and-forget" class. Skill should always be a large factor in finding success and this is true with any class, not just CVs.

Make it 500000 and we have a deal.

Doesn't matter, auto drops take too long to setup, their drop distance is too high, they will always be too easy to avoid (having a more narrow spread will in fact make it EASIER to dodge auto drops) and they're buggy af. Not to mention you're removing any kind of player interaction, which will make CVs the most boring, ineffective and skill-less class to play by far. A more skilled player is supposed to hold the advantage in a fight. Catering to the lowest possible denominator will eventually kill a game. There are plenty of problems with CVs, but that a more skilled player will outplay a less skilled one is definitely not one of them. Also Strafe was introduced so that a fighter squad can eliminate multiple squadrons quickly. So from WGs perspective the situation you described is exactly what they wanted to achieve.

Does it help that auto drops are easily avoidable? No.

Huh, really? I always feel like I'm outspotting a KM DD by miles when playing Fletcher/Gearing. Never been caught off guard (at least as far as I remember) and am always capable of dictating the engagement.

Depending on the captain skills and upgrades anywhere from pretty good to downright monstrous.

How so? While Smoke + Hydro is indeed powerful in the new meta, USN DDs still have a pretty hefty concealment advantage.

Historic side note: Considering fighter planes have on more than one occasion sniped (or even kamikaze'd) torps out of the water, this is actually realistic.

Don't start giving them any ideas. (WG space battles back when?)

I think you rather meant that in beta the built in aimbot was still in the game.

I think you need to l2p.

Honestly, I think lowering the citadel on Monty at least is a good change, if only to make her competitive with other T10 BBs. And when Monty no longer has a ridiculously oversized citadel, there is little reason not to do it on the Iowa as well for consistency's sake - if WG decides to make BBs weaker sometime in the near future. A general nerf to BBs would've hurt these ships particularly hard because they already have a pretty big weakness, so addressing it in advance may be a good thing. Then again I somehow doubt WG is going to nerf BBs anytime soon. ¬_¬

While on paper inferior, the effective HE DPM of the 5" guns may be higher than that of their 100mm counterpart due to better HE penetration. Combined with the higher fire chance, it could make 5" Harekaze the superior HE spammer if given typical US DD RoF.

Naming and shaming is not allowed. Better remove those names before the mods come for you.

No, it's because CVs are basically extinct and most of the ones still around don't know how to do their job properly. I agree, but it solidifies my point about torps being unreliable weapons.

That "amount of damage" requires your target to literally sail in a straight line for a minute or two, with no stray planes, hydro, other DD etc. spotting it. Trying to hit a well played BB is futile for the most part.

70 plane kills but no CS. WG pls.

While the delay between input and recognition has gone down, they have managed to introduce a plethora of ludicrous bugs. The one I encountered most often was giving planes escort commands to objects half a map away while clicking on an empty patch of ocean. AND the game STILL cannot handle multiple commands at once. Honestly, what we've been handed as "improvement" is less than a joke when you consider how long this has (supposedly) been worked on.

And the number of people who have completely missed the point of this thread has just gone up by one.

Meh, I've seen worse. (which is a sad, sad statement in itself)

Wanna bet SEA gets them for free via campaign and only we have to pay for it because WGEU is once again spoiling us?