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You probably don;t know that planes, once the "attack run" has begun, are a lot less agile. Granted, not on Ark Royal. Then again you have a hard time if French DD runs away...

Won't help, CV gets Phalanx autocannons. No action from player required....

Yes, guided ones that hit citadel... how did you know?

I'm quite sure the reactions/advice/whatever you are gonna get on this one will be somewhere between NOOOOOO and REEEEEE. yes, quite unexpected, of course... Did you get the shirt yet?

Stick with a a smoke-DD, (or a light RN cruiser) & division up with him. I get 70% winrate in Exeter doing that, and I'm not that good. Note the DD will like it too... a big friend that can give a hard BLAP to red cruisers and DDs.

Adding more output-potential will only lead to more ROFLSTOMPS.

Heh, if a Cleveland makes top 3 AND he lives, then two things are sure: 1. He fired his guns (a lot); 2. Nobody was able to delete one of the most flimsy cruisers... Usually when I see a Cleveland (in T6 AR) I keep him spotted for a bit... problem (soon...) solved. If not, he'll prevent me from farming. So I have to solve it myself (I can and I will, even in a T6 CV). Now THAT might be a mistake by the red CV, but cannot be sure. Maybe Cleve was other side of the map.

it is quite feasible, when you are in "storm" you also spot stuff but anyone 0,1 km too far away doesn't see anything.

As in, when the CV would normally spot the DD -same as ships? LOL. I'd make sure every spotted (by somebody else) DD dies. Remote Atlanta. That would be better. Also, bring it on for ALL ships, so they cannot "killsteal" my carefully bled-dry BBs anymore. Yes they are. I know of games that are revered by plebs. Those games make lots of money. The result would be some players would leave, because they do not like it anymore. The MAIN population however would just stay. And new ones, that do like it, will come. The last thing is what I'd do. Stand back, and no longer try spot DD. Kill him if he dares to get near enough. ...but CV players told them what would happen before, and they didn't listen.

Well same goes about any ship, basically . If i want a BB dead, T6Cv vs T6BB, then he is dead. It is just a matter of the time it takes. BB takes longer to bleed to death, but on the other hand, it is harder to miss. Sometimes it takes me longer to kill a DD than to kill a BB. But neither of them is capable of hurting my CV, usually. It is even so that the DD has the best chances for that! So, nerf DD? Looks to me like he focussed Currywurst and Hipper. But the Shima got 8 plane kills. He must have focused him as well. You might have been lucky, or no direct threat to him. I bet your team was stronger from the start - can;t see how much he hit that Shima though. Looking at te results I doubt if it would have mattered. Remember stats is mostly about damage and kills. He sure didn't do bad there. But he might have decided to farm the Currywurst, because a CV needs credits as well. if it is clear the team is losing teh best thing you can do in a CV is damage-farm, like WG intended... BTW who sdo I see there doing 1200+ in a Cleveland... Don't matter to me. I only (sometimes...) run out of planes if I fail-div and get T9 in Ark Royal. Like torps, you do not spot them until the actual ship spots them? The game will not die. It will just attract a different audience. Pay-To-Rico showed it.

I see two positive reactions.... Think about it though. I would not suffer, neither would the unicums. But it's rare you get a decent CV-player on your team. Somehwo though it seems to be kinda common to have a savvy ones on the red team. Would you be happy... as Master @El2aZeR says: they got what they wished...

Which is what @El2aZeR stated as well. I agree. So do many more savvy CV players. Point is, do we need the "spotting for the whole team"to kill all the DDs? I don't think we do. We'll kill them anyway: if we want him dead, he's dead. A potato CV player will probably not - as most of the damage on a DD is done by the rest of the he team. Problem: usually I do not go for the DDs as being the main object. They CAN become the main object... However I found that if I kill the DDs right away it usually ends in a win for my team - but a ROFLSTOMP. Means I get crappy damage, so I'll focus the DDs when needed, rather have a somewhat longer game...

@ForlornSailor he is right on that one. How well you do is mainly measured by how many ships you kill and such. If you are good at that (and yes you are), it doesn't automatically mean you are good at avoiding CV. For example, I have swatted many good DD players who simply carried on in a straight line, in ther superfassssstt french DD...

I'm 100% in favor of this. Make spotting by CV only Minimap and for the CV self. Never had a kraken, after this I'm sure I will get lots...

I'd say I can get even an UNICUM DD player, no problem. And I'm only sort of half-smart. Granted, if I get a REALREALLY unicum DD I'll have some (or more) trouble. But 90% chance I'll kill him anyway. BEST he can hope for is that he makes it so hard/boring that I think F-this and go hunt something else. One mistake though and he is toast. The main problem is, get a half-smart like me on the enemy team, and your own team has the potato. I will just farm your BBs, delete a few cruisers and kill the DDs. I'll do whatever I like, sort of. Meanwhile your potato-CV will do nothing at all, so our DDs will still live, and our BBs and cruisers don't worry. Our cruisers sit behind their island waifu and spam HE, our BBs spam HE from the border, but yours get blapped.

Depends. I consider myself "reasonably skilled". yet: - I cannot save/carry a potato-team; - in a ROFLSTOMP match I will not be able to do great damage; - some MM renders my CV a bit... well... limp? --> Only certain unicums in certain CVs can actually make a BIG difference. The problem is mainly, that a TOTAL POTATO on one side makes MORE difference than a UNICUM at the other. And I know it too...

Finally somebody who paid attention in calculus-class... I'd not be too sure about that. See those flags on the red background? I get similar stuff in a BB (except in Conqkek, but I play that like a nutter anyway). Potential, yes. However the potential to FF-it-up seems to be even more enormous... Correct. I think 80% of the annoyance is generated when (high chance) players own CV ends up being a potato, and the other one is not. Ahem... only 100K in Midway...? You slacker!

That's easy mate. The problem is there when YOUR pilot is a potato, and the other one is somewhat decent. It's all up to expectations. And then what happens, he sort of killsteals YOUR kil.... REEEEEE!

yes really. 1 vs 3, well we have SEEN what happened. He could not escape, nor win - so chose to scuttle.

Yup. Love my Conqkek. Same as against DDs, it is lethal. Blap 'em in one shot. The thing is, with Conqkek you can get really really close, which leaves no escape. Basically shoot it with the fattest BB HE you've got.

That is why Conqkek in CB works. You take it hunting DDs. You do not hunt the other BB.

Meh. I ripped 2 Klebers a new one in Conqkek and the other one got shot by my teammates, else he'd have been #3. in randoms there are a LOT of other ships, like BBs that shoot across the map once the DD spots you. Which is why I usually do not run, teammates spot them coming and the go "CV run" but well... no. I stay behind my Waifu and just try kill them (and then MY teammates then help ME, not their teammates help THEM (cause they cannot hit me).

Anything "by WG" needs speziulll treatment. Like booze. Steering mechanics are no exception.

Indeed you need to watch the drunjk/stoned autopilot carefully. My main problem is that, for some or other reason, he sometimes decides to do "different than planned". Like, you plan for him to hide behind an island - check the line on the tactic map. Decide the route is OK, doesn;t have kinks or "reverse manouvres". So you expect the CV to arrive there without problem. Then you notice on the minimap, he has planned for some "FWD-RWD" manoeuvres anyway. Sometimes he decides it is a good idea to make a circle... around the FRONT of the island... or crashes into the edge of it anyway and starts reversing... overshoots... somehow... or you want to get away from the island, you notice no movement.... he is doing the FWD/RWD thing again... KEEP A SHARP EYE ON THE MINIMAP!!!