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You forget that a CV usually survives the whole game. Meanwhile, I can do 4 games in a CL/DD where I get blapped within first 5 minutes. So basically, you'll need a LOT more CV players... Well, as math goes: rubbish in = rubbish out. As for English, it isn't everyones first language here, mate. True. Those CVs could face T5 though, LOL. OK they also could get T3. Even worse. At T6 it starts to get a bit harder. At T8 if all you can do is kill DDs you'll bleed credits. At T10... you need ~100k damage to break even. At T6 it is not that hard, though a potato will fail. You have to be good or lucky to get >50%WR. Because at that tier CV doesn't have the power to carry. Unless you are very good. It is in some CVs. Must say they did make them different enough, each one requires something different. There's even CVs that you can't kill DDs very much, in mid-tiers. Yeah even though I do play CV and am quite savvy, I stil think it is sick. I haven;t been playing much these CB and that is the reason for it.

Well that is easy to see, just count the numbers. At T6 you see a lot less CVs, at T8 they get a bit rare.

My DD-divvy indeed uses a LOT of AP. Daring is damn good... I have seen him take on a full-HP Hindenburg in CB. That Hindy didn't stand a chance. We asked if he needs help, he goes "naaahhh just gimme a minute".

Agreed, usually I do not even use the rockets as you can farm much better with bombs and torps... Then again, I see a lto of CVs "deplaned" (well, they still have 2 or 3 planes left) and that is why most use rockets late game. Because that is all they have left... I'd not be against removing rockets. But I want ASW planes back else I'm gonna get bored. I'd have bought the Inbominable if I had wanted that.

Check here. https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/213359-ifhe-all-night-long/ I do not have Daring, but my regular divmate has. We use it in CB regularly. He says it is not needed anymore, and he took Radio Location instead.

I haven't played it ever and almost never see it in CB. The only way I know how to get a Venezia down is make it crispy. Even in Conqueror I have trouble against that thing.

Nope not needed anymore since they changed it, so get Radio Location instead.

1. Yes sometimes, in a straight line... 2. teammates... yeah right they'll save you. I'd gamble the DD-teammates are more inclined to shoot the CV. 3. Sometimes I manage to topr one. They are the dumb ones though, not the ones likely to kill a CV. And good luck bombing them with AP-bombs. HE-bombs and RN clusterFF-ers yes. Yep they always get +1 if they manage to sink my CV. Not often, but they do, sometimes. Mostly because team potated and overdid the lemmingtrain. Change them for ASW planes with depthcharges, I'd take them.

They could, but then the CV wouldn't have any defence at all if a DD comes for him. Except if they give the CV meme-worthy secondaries. Same as auto-repair of flood and fires. Give the CV mega-AA. That way it would become different, CV would protect own ships from other planes due to AA. Also for other ships it would be sort of worth it to protect the CV.

Maybe fat AP coming in from above.

I can confirm that upto T7 they are mega-crap...

Yesterday, finally got FOUR citadels on a Venezia with Moskva, of course I died immediately after it but anyway we got the bastard down. yeah if you actually can play them bow-in then it's surprisingly good. Kiting when running is not advised though. The rear is kinda vulnerable. I've gotten as far as Zara, estimated 50 games to go before the next... I can do well in it but usually... well no.

You all took a CV, that probably made the difference.

Holy macceroni! I was just baiting them! It's not even funny actually, I think of something really troll, and then it is actually true...

100% correct. I think I know what he means. The higher tier you go, the more campy stuff becomes. Indeed then you go play mid-tier. Tier 6, 7. Maybe 8. Maybe even take T5. So I do that. Uhhh... and then you get uptiered to T9... Shiiiiiitttttt... SOMETIMES might as well set it full forward and go away have coffee. I never do. So far. But tempted.

Battle ended, zero points in 7 minutes. RFOLSTOMP. Nothing to be done about it in a T7CLA with 11km range. Other team got all the caps, my team dit FF-all.

I was thinking of getting Thunderer but looks not THAT interesting to me. Perhaps I'll wait what gets confirmed. Or save up for a SUBMARINE...

Well, I had a game at Okinawa where I lasted (almost) the whole match. I sat in my Smolly, smoking up regularly, and my main dakka target was a Yamato. I managed to burn/melt him really good. I just kept on going dakkadakka 15 minutes no stop at all. Meanwhile his teammates were absolutely stupid and just left me there... Yes I farmed ~120K damage that game (not just from the Yammie) but it was mostly because nobody stopped me. Finally the Yammie had enough, he went rearward so he had a good angle, I could not go anywhere else his teammates would have got me... BLAPPPPP. The Yammie remained with around 50%HP but that wasn't just me doing that. Oh and yes we won but that was because my divvy in the DD got 5 kills. I also got one kill, because I torped the DD that was capping before I took that position. Bottom line: to get those 200K games you have to set multiple perma-fires to multiple ships. A potato like me will not make it past 150k I think. And even then you need stupid reds to do it.

Best weapon against Smol is Conqueror. Shoot HE at smoke cloud if you suspect Smolly in it.. Conqueror dispersion will take care of a nice spread. Distance doesn't matter. Each fat HE shell hit takes about 30%HP off. Overpen doesn't happen, fire may result. Usually two salvos will do the job. Another method is throwing torps in smoke with Kaga or Midway. Success guaranteed. He must be very lucky if all the torps miss him. An d if they do, well, try again.

Hahaha well of course I had to get it, I had the coal for it, and it was a choice between Thunderer and The Thing. Since I have Conqkek I picked The Thing. But it is less than stellar. However the "rain of fire" is meme-worthy. That 19km is overrated. Granted you do NOT want the short distance, at T10 that is bloody awful. You can't pen anything so it is just something like "farting all over the place". A well-played Daring or something else is much more dangerous. I know how to play cruisers (sort of..) but this thing... well: - It is fast, but very slow to accelerate/brake/steer. - has smoke, but only small puff. Good luck maneuvering in that... - yeah it has some "magic overpen". But so far that has only bitten me in the @$$, when I try using it RNGesus just says "nope". Usually I go BOOM due to large HE, when sat undetected in smoke. Because even when not spotted, people hate Smolly and they'll just shoot the smoke. So yes I can do those large damage numbers too, but I guess you have to be lucky. Usually my ship lasts about 5-10 minutes... BLAPPP!! I don't think it's all that powerful. But it sure as hell can be annoying.

You have Smolenskofobia. But when you see ME playing it, have no fear. I am rather harmless with the thing. Check my stats if you do not believe me. Mostly because I forgot to install the damage-sponge skill, probably. I usually get blapped...

Both confirmed... you seem to be a good player in most ships, nice DD numbers, and you also did RTS carriers. But the only Reework CVs that are any "good" are the T4 (others have too little games played). There's no AA down there mate. And somehow WG has seen fit to buff them, too. So... two times right. BTW I dunno how they calculate PR. Probably some (damage * ship-HP) formula. IMO it means zip as I usually end (wayyy) above my "red counterpart" and my PR is still crud. I guess some ships we like and some ships we hate, and they hate us back too.

Ahem... well OK T8 Audacious is crap indeed. However the rest is fine. Still sorry I didn't get Enterprise... well there's always X-mas loot gamble boxes...

Well, if it is like that (the only thing that can save your team is you capping) then your team has FF-ed it up long time ago. I'm quite savvy with CVs, and my team also FFs it up, usually. So, as it happens, that situation sounds familiar. But - if I have been pulling that team like an ant must pull a dead horse, I will have no planes left. If I can still blap the red DD late game, I have had it EASY. Because I had time to manage the plane-supply. If it makes you feel better, there were times when I had to cap WITH THE CV. Because, you know, teams. And then I had to spend the last few planes keeping off the enemy DD. Sometimes I managed. Sometimes... well nope.

It is relevant though, because that is how people are expected to be rated nowadays. I dunno about you, but I am an old fart, I grew up in times that things counted. It mattered if you scored 100% for a test or just 55% and barely passed. There was some kind of honor in it, too. Somehow though the feeling is creeping up on me like "a little more than half the job done is just fine" and seems I am just old and going insane thinking that is not the way it should be.