lankylad11

i don't agree. you often get tier 10 games in a tier 9 CV anyway at the moment. On the US side, you have 46 more planes and you have more survivabe planes to boot. plus the jump from BB AA from tier 9 to tier 10 isn't that big. the pain barrier is jumping from tier 7 AA to tier 8 AA. so that is where the tier IX CV gets its damage by farming tier 7's

well, what i am saying is that the US need some form of huge alpha damage at high tier in carriers and they simply don't have that any more. now. you can go back to 1/2/2 that would work but i suggest would cause derision and howls of rage everywhere. then Midway would be strike, and Hakuryu AS. fine. but if you aren't going to do that, you need to make dive bombers either a lot more accurate for the US or give them AP bombs or something. i have manual dropped on a Yamato perfectly and missed with all 7 before or come away with 4k dmg from a maximum of 72/73k then he puts the fire out. you cannot reliably punish lone unescorted battleships with a Midway these days, i mean drop 60% of their health in one visit, but a strike tier 10 CV must be able to do that if they wanted to make dive bombers much more accurate for the USN that would suit me down to the ground. so you can do say 15k a squad RELIABLY to a Yamato from 5 or 6 hits then TB thats fine. I don't care what they do to US CV's or even to IJN ones but they have to close the performance gap. in the last three months, Langley is the only US CV that out damages its IJN rival the rest fall way behind.

ah, but you wouldn't get fires from AP DBs, what you would get instead is REASONABLE damage up front all in one go, thats the difference, up to 20k RELIABLE damage from a Midway squad on a yamato say, rather than anywhere random between 3k and 11k often even missing despite a perfect manual drop. they have pushed US CVs in the direction of DBs to deal damage, but they are far too RNG at the moment for that. Something has to give, at every tier from 5 to 8 the IJN CV out damages the US CV by at least 15%, and the average damages of Essex and Midway have dropped like a stone since 0.5.3. WG claim to balance off server stats, surely something has to give. AP DBs is an excellent start, or at least DBs being less RNG, being more accurate would help. but thats not all they need. and all this lets push lexington into a strike config, oh look Shokaku STILL outdamages it comfortably and it has at least two fighters in an upgraded lineup despite the lex having all these huge bombs. what does that tell you?. EVERY confirmed sinking at the battle of midway was done by dive bombers. not TBs, yet it is TBs which are still the main damage dealer for CVs, and no attempt to push 1/2/2 to 1/1/3 will change that. something needs doing further to dive bombers. I would take american ones just being more accurate though than at present. I am more than half way through Shokaku being well above average for damage in Zuiho, Ryujo, Hiryu and Shokaku having stormed up the IJN line after 0.5.3 so i have experienced both sides of the fence

A Cruiser or DD should have no excuse about being able to dodje cos of the sheer agility of them, but keep turning cos then its hard to put the spread down. If you are a BB and you fear the high tier carriers, 1) change your spotter plane to a fighter so you can worry the incoming aircraft and 2) stay with your cruisers instead of going banzai