Aerroon

Oh look, it happened again.

I took out my Lexington and did a torpedo bomber attack on two Amagis. It was just two Amagis that were close together. It was almost a full clean drop (in and out after angling just a bit - no planes lost during angling or anything like it and it only lasted for a few seconds). None of the torpedo bombers survived. Both groups all died to just two Amagis. I did a drop on a lone Amagi - I lost 3 torpedo bombers (that's half of a group).

Yeah, but you can also get games where matchmaking does the following: Ranger + Saipan vs Lexington + Ranger. How does this make sense?

Hmm, could this be how I my fighter squadron on my Ranger lost to a Saipan's lone fighter squadron?

It depends on how they implement monetization. If I find it too problematic then no. The game itself is great but badly implemented monetization could take the fun out of it. That's the sad truth of the matter.

I think I hit magazines or something along those lines. This was not caused by fire. The destroyer player immediately went "are you carrying nukes on those or something?"

I think that the problem with mismatched carrier tiers is that the weaker carrier side is going to have a horrible game, because they can't do much. Then again, it's kind of similar to fighting a same tier carrier that's full air superiority: you just can't do much if he plays well. However, neither of those actually mean that your team is going to win or lose. You still have to play well on the stronger carrier team to win - I've taken out half of the enemy's battleships alone as the superior carrier and we still lost because my team was being a bunch of idiots. Really though, I whine a lot more about the issue in game than it actually is an issue in my opinion. But it does suck when you're up against a Lexington in a Saipan and you just know that you're going to be absolutely crushed and gain almost no xp for it.

Doesn't this cause a balance issue with matchmaking putting more ships of lower tiers on one side? In that case it would be easier for the side that has higher tier ships (especially if they are something like battleships that are more of).

Didn't find this on the list, but I played the map mode that has you capture points A, B, C. It's the middle one of them in terms of levels (before the stormy map). The game ended when the enemy team's score went negative. We didn't reach 1000 points as far as I know (we were at 780 a moment before) and the enemy team had at least 3-4 ships left so even if 1-2 died they shouldn't have all died at once. Especially because some weren't even visible for our team (I was in a carrier).

Yes you can click on plane groups which you wish to focus.

I just use dive bombers to bait enemy anti air fire or enemy fighters. I do drop bombs but they really make no difference. They're the fire and forget planes. If I lost my dive bombers with nothing in return I wouldn't care at all. I even prioritize a torpedo bomber taking off being delayed by 1 second over dive bombers landing 10 seconds earlier. It's very rare for them to really be useful - mainly just reducing cap time and once in a blue moon they might finish a low hp target off. But they are so rare. On the other hand, if they did more damage and still required no skill to use like right now I think they might get too powerful. On the other hand, I *LOVE* being hit by dive bombers. The effects look so cool. I would just like to equip them with torpedos and have them drop those on the enemy.

I had a pretty good game with my BURNING LOVE. It even got the 1.5x daily xp bonus too! I don't play battleships that often so I'm still in my Kongou, but I enjoy it from time to time.

I thought CVs sucked too. Then I tried them and found that my average xp is way higher in them (before we could still see stats). And winrate too, but I'm guessing it has to do with pubstomping. Never really felt this way when I played against CVs.

Maybe because when people made threads about torpedos being OP they got ridiculed for never having played destroyer/carrier games? Or perhaps it's just coincidence.

Same. Luckily I sold it because I got to Hatsuharu! The trouble is still that she only has 2 guns.

Speaking of which, why can't I just equip my dive bombers with torpedos and they drop those on the target instead?

I have noticed this against me as well. Torpedos appeared through the island! However, when I tried doing it myself the torpedos just disappeared.

It's not working for me currently. Did something happen to it? I liked checking my winrate with specific ships etc.

Sounds to me like the OP just sucks. Why don't you try destroyers. If they are so OP you should be racking up kills left and right and get high tiers unlocked in no time, right?

Try playing destroyers/carriers to like tier 6-7 and you'll see how amazing they are. Most people agree that it takes a lot of effort to "just hit and kill" a battleship. You can take something like 5-6 tier-equivalent torpedos from an IJN destroyer. Against carriers a Kongo even took all 12 of my Independence's two torpedo squadrons and didn't die! The trick is to think ahead. Do you see the destroyer and think he could be launching torpedos? Start doing evasive maneuvers. Also your answer to "why can't I see the torpedos but the destroyer" would be a counterquestion of: why can you see torpedos that are supposed to be very difficult to see? Because balance reasons. Torpedo reload rate at tier 6 is 97 seconds. How is that "too many torpedos"? Considering one torpedo has a maximum damage value of 16300 on the Mutsuki and you can fire a maximum of 6 at once. The likelihood of even a few of those hitting is usually pretty low unless you put yourself in extreme danger because of enemy ships and aircraft.

You know, I'm starting to see a pattern. Tier 6 has the super strong battleship - Fuso. Tier 6 has the super strong cruiser - Cleveland. Tier 6 has the super strong carrier - Saipan. Tier 6 has the super strong destroyer - Mutsuki. (Okay, I'm kidding with this one. Mutsuki is terrible. Strongest IJN DD is Minekaze.)

Another issue with the high tier ships is that you run out of credits if you don't do well. I'm not exactly at the point of it bankrupting me but I am breaking even-ish in my tier 8. Can't imagine what it would be like in a destroyer where some random volley can just kill you and you have to pay high repair costs.

I played the Minekaze and liked it a lot. So I figured that I'd go for playing destroyers since that was a lot of fun to fight cruisers and battleships in it. Then I unlocked the Mutsuki and, well, I don't quite understand it. It's not that the Mutsuki doesn't live up to tier 6 status, it is rather that the Mutsuki is worse or the same in essentially every category that matters for a destroyer. The improvements it has are so minor they make barely any difference, while the downsides are so huge. 97 second reload time on torpedos on the Mutsuki vs Minekaze's 47 seconds? Is this a joke? The fact that you can fire 2 salvos of 3 instead of 3 salvos of 2 is already a downgrade and then the reload time is more than double as well?

I didn't get any piasters either. Is this an april fools' joke?