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Very true. Had a (standard) battle last night where we had a 25% Hakuryu, while the enemy had a 60% Hakuryu. We mentioned this right from the start; that we had to stop the enemy CV as a team, as ours would probably be useless. And so we did. We sailed in an elongated blob, with a Des Moines and a Minotaur in the front and middle. I provided smoke with my Fletcher to conceal the cruisers, and used Def AA to panick bombers if needed. We focussed and sank their DDs rather quickly (combination of me spotting + DM radar). In the end we just stomped their team. Nothing their CV could've done.

Wonky mechanics everywhere .. last night I did 11k damage with 2 (460mm) overpens on a North Carolina ..

@Aotearas, sometimes I really wonder how you get this stuff

I'm probably wrong, but I thought the Graf Spee was a BC as well?

My maximum is 8 kills, but with low tier ships only - the Hosho, Danae (), and Smith. If I look at some higher tier ships, my maximum is 7.

Our Scrub division ran into @BeauNidl3 on our team - too bad we couldn't secure a victory

@T0byJug, @Skyllon, and @havaduck - in the shadows of the Huang-meh (at least the TRB proved its usefulness once ) Also got a casual 44k commander XP with the Yamato - but forgot to take a screen shot of it

Decent battle with Budyonny, and a Tactical Expertise with randoms as well!

So why don't you play Cruisers?

@havaduck

Incredible comeback - at a moment we were 3 ships behind and had none of the capture points. Yet somehow we managed to turn the battle around and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat! New personal "tanking" record - too bad the battle ended in a defeat (RNG wasn't helping much either .. half of my hits were overpens ). Second battle with Zao - I think I like this ship Would've gotten Witherer if the battle lasted 2s longer ... 59.7k fire damage Next battle with Des Moines - same story - very close to a Witherer (but it eluded me all night). I had some fun with a Moskva who decided it was a good idea to pop out behind an island at ~4km in front of me, full broadside And last but not least, T8 CV in a very AA heavy battle (enemy had 2x Minotaur, Des Moines, and Moskva). Both teams were splits in 2 large groups, so there was little the enemy CV and I could do ... but spotting ships and torpedoes Not my most spotting damage, but I'll take it

Very soothing voice indeed. I want ARP Musashi

I understand your point. Regarding AA, I slot Def AA (and Man AA) on my Farragut when I play Ops with CVs

"Stopped working" was probably poorly worded - "unresponsive" might be better, as it were just the planes that didn't respond to commands (I could move my ship just fine). It also worked fine the other time of those battles and in other battles where I played CV. It's like that (rare) bug where you can't shoot your main guns, but still turn your turrets / move your ship.

Sometimes I play the Farragut in the Ops - most of those times I don't do much damage, but I can easily wreck bot DDs and I have a great smoke screen to cover my allies (e.g. for the Raptor between islands).

Yes, please fix CVs - twice last night in the heat of battle (engaging fighters and striking ships at the same time), my controls stopped working for ~1 minute.

I don't get it... the service cost is fixed regardless of damage taken

3 & 4 are really wtf. I really don't know how a CV can get sunk in this Op (it's by far the easiest one in a CV). And how the transport ships can escape .. just wow

^ @OP, basically this. Jingles is mainly an entertainer :) for tutorials / "how to's" you're better off watching other youtubers

Had it happen once in Leningrad while dodging torps on full speed .. slided / drifted in a harbour and parked myself like in that Austin Powers' GIF ... True SCRUB I am

True, but what if the expected value of fires started is not an integer? E.g. 6x 25% = 1.5 --- but what does this mean "1.5 fires"? You can't start half a fire Hence why I said that (imo) it's better to work with chances rather than expected values :)

As I mentioned once in another thread, you have to calculate the inverse chance to get an idea of the chance of an amount of fires. E.g. chance of setting any amount of fires = 1 - chance of setting no fires e.g. chance of 8 HE shells with 25% fire chance each (with 50% hit rate on a ship with -20% fire chance reduction) would be 0.8^4 (= chance of each shell setting no fire) = 0.4096. So you have a chance of ~59% to set any amount of fires. For multiple fires you also need to assume an even distribution of shells.

I understand :) though it's one of the reasons I have a Premium Ship of most nations, to retrain captains (in a Premium Ship they're not orange anyway) :)

@havaduck Some people say the Hipper is a bad ship ... I love it Enemy Hindenburg and Atago got #rekt. And 1.6M potential damage too! Just noticed that I spotted 32 torpedoes .. without HAS nor Vigilance .. I remember some torpedobeats

Blyska in heavy T9 battle ... couldn't carry this potato team