Deckeru_Maiku

The thing is, WG NEEDS subs being able to sink other subs, as without that the endgame of many battles - when only subs left on either side - would become even more than a boring mess as the battles that end with two - potato - CVs as the only survivors...

...unless for the 75% not so quite average 40% winrate potatoes that they meet in surface ships in their battles.

Naaah... you got that wrong... "...we know that you enjoy dropping depth charges" isn't/wasn't about about sinking anything. It was and is only about pressing that ASW button... doesn't mean you have to hit anything with that ASW... just press the button and happiness is assured. So WG did a great thing by making lots of people happy with adding just a mostly useless button to the setup...

Any names for the hints?

You used the wrong forum account again... none of your stats prove that you did anything...

(insert Roger Murtaugh quote HERE) and therefor I'm also too old to learn new tricks. Ain't a dog, y'know... as Mythbusters proved that an old dog CAN learn new tricks, but as an old human I have the (insert deity of choice) given right to not to learn new tricks if I don't want to. Or using other crosshairs, hitting targets or proper spelling.

Easy... choose it... use it... and then learn HOW to use it... ...like this. Couldn't even imagine playing with a different kind of crosshairs.

I would love to see those dolphins that stick blast charges unto ships bellies in the game... ...not much more fantasy than russian CVs, right.

Diverse BBs (Battleships...) also only have that 6 + those some extra km ASW plane range... which you seem to be very eager to ignore... like so many other facts of the game...

Feedback isn't considered important by WG and playing on the "Non Official Test Server aka normal game server" is testing my nerves enough already.

You missed at least half a dozen troll posts... and there are new ones...

Get your data... lots of BBs and Cruisers even at higher tiers get - wait for it... - 6 km (!!!) ASW plane range... against 14 km sub torps... So... well, check your data for once... so you might finally manage to not deliver an ignorable comment due to lacking knowledge.

I have to admit, that I did play some ranked battles in the past... got that Pirate Flag from the first ranked season, IIRC. But it soon lost all appeal to me, as it changed into "Random Battles with less Players but the same % of Potatoes" over the years...

Fixed it for you...

ah, sorry... only had read the stuff about "buy 10 containers and get a ship" gossip above your post... my fault..

Tells you a lot about the team I had on my side...

Couple weeks ago I had to get downstairs to the door to accept a parcel for my neighbours (!) when playing random... took 5 minutes at least... when I came back I was still alive and managed to end the four sinkers and on top of the losing team's point chart... in Krispy Kreme...

Only works when 100 forumites spend money for the chance of a black ship they might or not might have already...

The fun thing is, a solution would be utterly stupidly easy... give CVs a toggle key to switch from ship to planes and back and have the planes go just straight ahead as long as the player is in ship mode... sure, they might get rekt by AA then, but at least one could get that CV turn on the reverse gear (which most ships don't have/had then, but hey, f*ck realism...) and get on the planes again... Not having that option implemented makes me wonder about the quality of russian coders... or... nah, not really any more...

I'm way worse.. I don't even play ranked... so 0% winrate..

and Captain Skill reework... CV reework... russian "1st strike is free" CVs... One could get the impression that WG is kinda desperate and trying even the most outragous idea of some "game designers" to get fresh meat into the game...

Don't see any at T4 randoms and with only one random battle a day at T5 I encounter very few there, too... With all other time spend at CoOp I can say, there are about zero subs to be found... (not playing higher than T8 often there, than..) And of course this is german early afternoon hours...

The alpha is very depending of positioning and therefor also from the map. Domination mode on maps with a nice ring of islands around the B cap are those where russian CVs can molest enemy ships being dumb inexperienced enough trying to cap there. And with such short flight times, a second strike before the first strike has returned to the hull are easy... Depending on how one drops the torps, the second strike can start before they even have hit... and the third strike before the second payload arrived at the target... I'm speaking from experience here, as in a DD I was treated this "phun experience" on Trap map... So.. very situational. Less "lets get the enemy team down by dämmätsch" but more DD-like area control and molesting of ships that are otherwise engaged. For "classical" CV Unicums surely not efficient enough, but for more average players maybe a way to support their team better.

Did shake off lots of Snowflakes in CoOp today, so only one battle worth mentioning. That damage came from taking out both opposing Kosmosprolets. And some cruiser... partially... I also got the result screen screenshots, but the forum hasn't allowed me to load them up from my other (gaming) computer.. I'll try tomorrow to append them here.

I'm a CV potato... (just check my stats, they prove this claim...) I got the russian T4 from the missions and spent some frexp to get me the T6, just to try it out in CoOp and have it for missions later... They playstyle (at T6, as at T4 all CVs are kinda alike-ish from their influence) is very different from the other CVs, as one has to go forward to make the best out of their skill package. Find a nice island as forward as healthy and then start spamming ships. I usually like to use torpedoes with all CVs. And with the "lots torps, but you need to lead a lot..." mechanism of the russian CVs it feels a bit like "Flying DDs". While I often had problems hitting those CoOp bot ships with the other CVs torps, I managed often to hit all torps of a flight with the Serov. Still the damage is on the low side, but in CoOp that also depends on how fast the other human players finish the clueless bots. I guess (!) experienced CV Unicorns (!) will say, that other CVs are way better than the russian ones. I guess (!) they do way less damage than the US/IJN CVs. For other players they are imho much more of a nuisance, do to the endless stream of flights they can send out... bad luck when you're the target. And of course it's the same as with other CVs: it's not camping BBs they punish/harass most, but DDs first and Cruisers second... So.. GJ WG, you managed to the russian CVs a real PITA. Edit: I guess the two Kosmosprolet players I met with my Yubari today won't agree to this, but, hey, losing 35 planes against a Yubari and not scoring any vital hit... needs some bit portion of non-experience with those CVs.