Elenortirion

it's kinda funny how they posted numbers of replacement captains [the ones being put into lower tier of moved ships] in commander xp now can someone remind me how much exacly captain skills point it is? 3-4 skill points on t8 kagero ain't much ya know >.> [as I recall next skillpoint getting to 50k of exp to get happening quite early]

being able to penetrate 19mm armor of course what else it could be? [i suppose WG believes akizuki would be OP if she could pen 19mm armor and be able to set fires at the same time xD] btw patch notes are up, interesting read

the direct damage of those HE shell hits are awesome! oh wait they aren;t really.... but then surprisingly there are any HE pens in the first place xD

patch notes are out http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/updates/patch-notes-0515/ I don't think there are any questions left in regards to compensations although I started to wonder about those captain for moved variants I mean 35k commander experience on t8 ship? how much captain skill points would it be? 3? 4? on a very good note though it's officially said there that T9 and T10 ships on split line WILL be added later on

actually you can like.. being close to dem montana or other extremely AA heavy ships I have once nearly dodged tripple crossdrop of hakuryu in fubuki, with only single torpedo from third squadron hitting me, unfortunatelly at that point I was low enought on health to sink from it..... but the damage potential on the result screen was just ridiculous xD [full hakuryuu strike force effectively wasted for sinking single lowhealth fubuki] and I would not say they need straight out nerf all they need is major system revamp [with a touch to how AA batteries works to allow more skill being used in this matter] as current system is highly flawed and will pretty much always feel unfair to both sides [apart from that promised UI revamp, personally I'd like to see CVs being a lil bit more versatile, so maybe something like flight decks affecting only how much planes of each type are carried in the reserve with CV having a choice which planes are being launched? <for example let's say such shokaku can controll up to 6 squadrons being in air, and decides that in current moment scouting/negating enemy strike force is more important task so he launches pretty much all reserve of fighters he has -due to having ballanced flight deck equipped - in order to have 6 fighter squadrons in the air> such a feature along with some balancing being involved of course would allow CV flexibility they need to operate in efficient but still fun manner, while stil preserving prebattle choices of a player having impact on the game]

I didn't, now I do still makes me wonderign how the system works as people over there seems being flagged pink for much smaller offences than 3 oxygen torpedoes in the broadside of allied battleship, whil I was not

oh and ofc one of my first battles in błyskawica like you knwo whe nshe was released there was still bandwagon for the ship, and before kiev was nerfed so according to every analysis out here kiev was outgunning błyski map: north, mission type: standard battle [was back then still called domination though xD] me and friendly BB were perorming flanking attack behind those islands on the far right ya know the place where in usuall domination point D sits suddenly, thorught that narrow strait between the islands [C-B shortcut in usuall domination] a wild kiev appears I know he outguns me, so I f3 him for my BB to help me and fire opening salvo kiev detonated ^-^

may actually be in a sort of sense to be precise - I can't enjoy really bad ships anymore [back at the starting days I loved kawachi for example - literally can't play it now]

for having higher tiers available postsplit of course [in the main line though]

well haven't got saipan myself but one advice I can get to you is that those fighters are opeish in this tiers thats coming from receiving end of hiryu with all the upgrades, but the AS perk to her fighter performance so even hope for dealing with one wing of saipan fighters I had to use two squads or catch those fighters in dogfight above really AA-heavy ship [like for example iowa] and then I had oly 2 fighter squads against saipans 2 [or even 3 if he was using trolling deck] ontop of that while sure hiryu has more wings up in the air, saipan planes are much faster - which means good luck with trying to intercept saipan strike force with fighters, and good luck trying to not get intercepted by his I even had a game when I have sneaked planes to exacly other end of the map in comparision to his fighter locations, an he still managed to intercept - it took his fighters like 40 secodns to burn throught the whole lengths of the map? also get AS perk - with it you'll have just as many planes in squad [for fighters] as hiryuu [stock] meaning even easier win of of dogfights and once he's out of fighters, he's out of way to stop you... unless you will not pay attention and allow him to sneak by and snipe you, but thats other story

well you always know that moment when you are single fubuki goign down narrow strait between two caps and suddenly wild gearings x2 appears? in every case you'd think you are dead so did I when it happened to me thinking to at least score as much damage as I can before goign down I opened up salvo against one of those gearings ... detonation second gearing apparently didn;t want to go down this strait with his friend and sailed around that island allowing me to live on and cap the cap reactions on the chap - priceless [and the "what the.." moment mostly positive - both teams - alongside with the detonated gearing were laughting their backs out from this]

meanwhile recently, false assumption that no one sane will be going down narrow strait camped by smoked DDs, firing torps on smoke of said DDs, allied tirpitz rushed the strait kills those DDs, and then proceed to eat 3 torps of mine..... still not pink even once

ah my bad, considering where the air strik occured I thought strikeforce had to be send from aircraft carrier [seems like they had airfield in range...] Air raid on tirpitz was to sink the ship [with aircraft] so it was battleship targeted by the aircraft last time I read on operation hunt for yamato they were telling a slightly different story than what you are saing here point being here - historically aircraft were being send against most strategical targets at the time [be it CV or airfield based] the fact that alot of these strikes were send against CVs was because CVs was higher threat and most strategical target so your reasoning "unless they were doing something crazy" is untrue and thats what I'm trying here to say [when musashi sunk sh was targeted as a part of battleship task force that at a time posed serious threat to major operation of USN, tirpitz was last raider vessel operating somewhat barely restricted and with rest of german fleet being blokaded it was of strategical value to take it off, yamato.... well at that point of war probably not much more than just breakign the spirit - while being formidable vessel, she was not able to influence the war at that point due to fuel supply being basically on the end] now considering that in WoWs strategical layer is removed all around, CVs should be striking against biggest tactical targets as WG didn't liked CVs wasting first half of a match trying to sneak throught strikes against other CVs this means that depending on how the enemy team is spreaded it will be either attemtps to chew off AA buble with minimall losses aka closest ships first, or targeting battleships first [then destroyers lastly cruisers]

hardcap? I haven't heard of any and I've seen already matches like 8BBs per team so judging by OPs screenshot, his issue is not any sort of hardcap on battleships, it was forced mirroring on Aircraft Carriers, making him to wait those minutes for oposing carrier to show up so maybe your efforts could be used better while trying to convince WG that aircraft carriers no longer needs forced mirroring

it's equal or greater 19mm penetration will suffice to penetrate 19mm plate [afaik] acually I would not be surprised if he pen of akizuki was nerfed from those first datamined stats to take into account HEAP skill from the reworked captain skills [and I have checked it again fubuki does have 19mm hull plating [with 13mm superstructure] problem here with support ships is that they rarely should be expected to early rush caps, even if it's support DD when you are supporting cruiser/battleship you stick with that cruiser/battleship - and in this case you'll land on cap only when this cruiser/battleship will. PS. early loose of caps does not mean loosingthe game - it's a step to it, but I have seen way too many matches when one team secured all the caps only to get anihilated in counterstrike later

I've met dasCKD today I was in my takao, he was in Zao, I embarassingly died at cap zone by forgetting the rule of do not rush, he died shortly afterwards by getting stuck on the island which broadside pointed toward all the enemies at said flank.......

because this battleship/cruiser/destoreyr were rarely posing an actuall threat to a strike force as opposed to aircraft launched from other CVs as I have already told you in previous post and no it was not "unless they were trying something insane" it was unless there was no other strategical targets musashi, tirpitz, yamato - probably if I cared I could get you much longer list of battleships sunk by CV based aircraft also as for CV fighting exclusively each other - WG have already made it clear on multiple ocasions that they do not want CVs to go for those CV snipes strategies, but instead they prefer each CV actively supporting their frontline ships, be it by fending off enemy strike force or by damaging tactical targets

this pic cannot be true! THIS IS NOT HOW HARU-HARU BEHAVES WHILE NOT WEARING HER COAT! >.< [for some reason I cannot make it smaller >.<] [but yeah that's pretty much what I meant - assuming you are thinking about thing I am thinking you are thinking about ] neither did I xD

pretty much every match of mine in takao, in which I forget that I am not supposed to charge the enemies on the very beginning of the game..... [which usually ends up with very small amounts of damage dealt, really short lifespan in battle, and then things like being citadeled by german BBs from like 12km straightly throught the bow ^-^] oh and there was that battle today, which was standard battle surprisingly I was not charging much, but in very early game I opened fire on enemy błyskawica, while the BBs right behind me where still not spotted whatsoever, got 4 hits and this with few plane kilsl was pretty much everything I accomplished, because next thing that happened was enemy CV throwing everything at me, me eating full citadel salvo while trying to dodge torpedo bombers and being finished of by that single torp fusing off the tip of the bow ^-^ I think actually that was my shortest lifespan in that ship ever.... [4 main battery hits 2 planes shot down 5k damge or so] [sorry was so embarrased that I didn;t got the screenshot]

the best [imo] part of the scene with drills was takao reaction to it, and extremely contrasting reaction of that other cruiser, the name of which I forgot.....

I know, right? especially twice in a row the last ship before that I managed to get dreadnought on was... kongo? I think?

and here goes my hope that this time he actually tried.....

it is not like historically those other ships Anti-Air batteries were any serious threat to CV strike force.... [as oposed to CV launched fighters] as for suggested solution, while PvE convoy missions [with objectives] for moar credit incomes would be nice, locking out CVs to play only with bots is bullcrap idea [to avoid harsher words] ok ok I got it, you don;t like CVs, but that is not a reason to effectively remove fro mthe game not only CVs but quite a few ships that can most prominently shine in an escorting duties, and then get people whining that atlanta underperforms.....

I'm quite sure there would be "healthy" base of people hating those cat-ears xD as for takao attention - be like me, talk alot here dropping pics as much as you can heu heu [i'm running out of nice looking pics on google >.>]

it was Carnival dajo >.> [or dayo or however it is spelled romanised] for sure not "doja"