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Something weird is going on guys. Today I have been complimented not once, not twice, but thrice on my CV play by both teammates and enemies. A nice change from the usual oceans of salt I tend to earn. Then again it's not the weekend.

Anything from T5-10 is fine by me, really. T4 only in my Clemson.

Yeah, that's not how math works. Sure, you may achieve the same flight times with a high tier CV further away compared to a lower tier CV, but that doesn't mean it's not ineffective. A good CV player will always attempt to keep as close to the front lines as possible. It's always more effective, there is nothing that diminishes it's value (well, unless your allies get utterly rekt, but then you've lost the game anyway). Yep - through your belt. Your deck armor is impenetrable to all AP shells as the combat distances found in the game are too close for plunging fire of any kind. That means if you angle bow/aft in you maintain very good survivability.

US cruisers get rather unforgiving starting at T7. I'd recommend RU cruisers over US ones, since their playstyle (aka long range HE spam) should be fairly comfortable for new players. That said, mastering US cruisers WILL make you a better cruiser player overall.

Not sure what more rewards you want. Faster planes simply mean even faster return times, enabling you to fly even more strikes per game. And your armored flight deck laughs in the face of all BB shells on the off chance you get spotted in higher tiers. It's imo well worth the risk.

1. DescriptionUnable to use cursor to designate priority targets for secondary batteries and AA guns. 2. Reproduction steps1. Select a ship with secondary and/or AA guns. 2. Enter a battle. 3. Attempt to designate a target for the secondary batteries and/or AA guns with the cursor. 3. ResultThe target will neither light up nor will it be possible to select it. 4. Expected resultThe target gets selected as a priority target for the secondary batteries. 5. Technical detailsPossibly related: Playing in Full-screen windowed mode. Bug comes and goes, no idea what causes it. Alt-tabbing does not resolve the problem. Other elements of the UI (such as consumables and shell types) are selectable. I have found that it is possible to workaround the problem by changing minimap options. After changing an option the UI will work as intended.

"On the other hand, if I had turned towards them I would have isolated myself even further from my fleet and eaten even more damage when his next TB squad and 2x DB squads showed up." Moving closer to the friendly Montana is somehow isolating himself lol. So, terrible misplay is still terrible misplay. Even Flamu was a noob once. I bet if I had Flamu comment on this video again he'd also see what a terrible misplay that was.

Guess what, by being closer to the action your plane cycle time drops drastically, enabling you to fly more strikes per game. So WoWs does indeed reward CVs playing closer to the front lines.

You need it to hunt DDs. Therefore, it's a must have.

Bringing up this video just shows how utterly clueless you are.

Just looking at statistics without interpreting them is about as stupid as you make it out to be. So this goes straight back at you.

So being a better cruiser player than you means nothing? A better DD player? Better at playing BBs, too?

Have a look here: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/updates/patch-notes-061/ Hydroacoustic Search Mod 1 can only be mounted on Cruisers or DDs.

Ah, yes, another clueless scrub. Please line up behind stevlin, Spartan, avenger and Svartmetall.

Doesn't she rely on AP to deal damage? Will she even be capable of penetrating the superstructure of a BB at such ranges?

The first thing I'd do to "buff" the Shima would be to remove the stock torpedoes. Seriously, why are these still in the game. They're utterly worthless, yet noobs look at them and see "Oh, more torp rating! Must be better!" Next I'd probably reduce her torp reload time by ~10 seconds. Shima is supposed to be a torp boat and has comparatively bad gun characteristics as a result, yet her long reload prevents her from effectively utilizing her torpedo power. With everything that can spot torps from miles away nowadays, I don't think a buff to her torp reload is unreasonable (obviously overbuffing it is undesirable as well). That or remove Hydro from KM BBs as a passive buff. No idea why WG thought this'd be a good idea, especially since KM BBs are supposed to be weak to torps.

IJN CVs become vastly superior to US CVs starting at T7. Even with AS they won't be able to shut you down if you play it intelligently. On the contrary, you should be happy if they play AS since it'll make your life much easier. If you really don't want to deal with AS at T6 you can also play 3/1/1 Ryujo and still get some decent results.

You forgot CVs. I'd also disagree on DDs since US DDs at high tiers do everything IJN DDs can do and more. Is it really worth it tho to reduce your detectability from "seen from the moon" to "seen from high orbit"? Doesn't seem like much of an improvement to me. I mean, I haven't played Fuso in quite a while, but if I had to I'd spec more into survivability than potentially wasting 4 points on CE. My current build looks like this: I'll probably pick BoS, AR then HA next. If I could be bothered to respec I'd get FP instead of AFT, too.

Why did the CV capsize? Because it is imbalanced.

It is okay to farm scrubs in BBs, cruisers or DDs. But when a CV does it it is unbalanced and must be nerfed.

Assuming the own team consists mostly out of potatoes and the enemy team has some semblance of skill, no, he will not. A CV is far easier to shut down than a well played Zao. All you need is either a single AA cruiser (DM, Hindenburg, Mino) or sticking together. Meanwhile you have to rely on the blessings of RNGesus to kill a well played Zao (or try some elaborate team maneuver that is far harder to pull off than simply sticking together).

I for one welcome the change actually. It affects very little aside from BB to BB balance. Sure, cruisers now have a harder time landing citadels on Iowa/Monty at close range, but considering they're already the most vulnerable BBs to HE fire at their tier it kinda evens out. At least Monty needed the change. Iowa (and especially Mo) less so, but it's still reasonable imo.

You wouldn't nerf Zao either, no? You just shot yourself in the foot, mate.

Again, CVs are capable of doing so because the average player sucks. That is not a problem with CVs.