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Yes really... this is AR in T9MM (shouldn't fail-division... well... why not).

I'd say Ark Royal looks kinda TERRIBLY OP compared to that...

I doubt if you are gonna find it a challenge... I think the challenge will be on the reds, they'll be praying for rain... lotsa fires. However I'd rather use €25,-- and get dubloons and the coupon, get Kaga instead of paying €40 for this. If they had made it available for dubloons might have been troll to get it, just for LULZ. But not this.

I said I'd get Ark Royal and Git Gud if it was needed (well it sort of was, with the T4 planes). I'm loving it. All (premium) CVs should be like this one. However I fail to see the fun in this T8... So I guess it will be Kaga for me then, too bad no more T6 CVs are coming. I'd rather have one of those than a T8. Just gets me T10 games which I'm not happy about at all.

Well Ark Royal is kinda "special" in that you can make it work if you Git Gud. And I love weird stuff... it doesn't get much weirder... I do not need this one to Git Gud, also I do not like high tier gameplay (gimme T6/7 all day). Plus I do not need two premiums to grind one line... well that is actually a crappy motivation as I do have lots of RN/US BBs and cruisers. This one isn't weird, it's just sort of handicapped.

I'll call it the Procrastinator and just buy Kaga. Was waiting for WG to see what happened to the T8 RN CV, well, easy choice now. I grinded out the US line, have the T8 RN, so now just the IJN line to go.

Well I suppose it is a compliment for WG, they are making money AND providing cannonfodder at the same time.

If I meet a Z (or any DD) I usually fly over/past as I'm too far to hit him. Then I'll drop fighters and turn - drop the fighters straight over him and yeah sure they'll be gone quick enough. Also, if I see fat FLAK I know he used sector and I'll just smack him from the other side. I can get 3-4-5K in one go from rockets. Could kill him in 3 strikes/one attack. If I have to come back for killing him either I FF-ed up or he was lucky. And he needs to be a real pest if I do want to come back for him, taking half his health usually makes him useless. Since I usually div up with a DD... he'd hate me for doing any more damage... nothing left for him. In fact I regard killing DDs as useless time waste, unless they are especially irritating.

IMO the real problem is CV players not having to "work for it". In Ark Royal I have to avoid 3-4-5 FLAK explosions. In Furious, maybe 2. I'd say that raises the skill level, and also improves "just dodge". In CV with faster planes, I never miss a torp. Or a bomb. Or a rocket. The only thing that happens is in Implacable, the planes just melt really fast, and it doesn't put out much damage.

I still think the only thing that should happen is FLAK. Make some AA_skills, improving FLAK. - Get more flak-shots per second, or "irregular" FLAK; - Make an AA-skill to get more FLAK-patterns, currently it is predictable as hell. Maybe even give players an option to aim FLAK for themselves. Also, DDs had generally as much FLAK as cruisers. Poor things. Anyway I do not feel much sorry for them as they often try to sneak up to me.

He probably means "exploit" as in: BB players that see a cruiser turning and wait to hit the broadside exactly. Or HE-cruisers waiting in concealment for a BB to use DCP... 90% of the playerbase is not using these "exploits". Beastofwar is right in pointing these things out. If we do not remember this, what happens is unicums can still do it, but "flat earthers" cannot. Which is why the FLAK works on potatoes but any CV-player that is any good is not affected. So if you do not remember the "exploits" you can never balance anything at all.

That might all be true, however even for a flat-earther his theories work, as long as you stay on the flat earth. So - as long as he stays around the average-to-good, works as intended. Once past that - nope. But remember the average potato player, is a flat-earther.

I've seen his stats, also what he says DOES work for the average player. Like speccing the Zeppy for secundaries. LOL. Just that the unicum player would use things otherwise.

Tachibana, Kuma and Smith. ROFL. I should get that British floating citadel back though.

Retraining 19pt captain on Tachibanana Lima is just hilarious. Just remember to shower afterwards. And clean carpet...

Well, that's the problem with Ark Royal, you do not get any kills because THEN the team is happy to help a bit... I'd like that the F3 key would tell "FINISH HIM FFS"...

Mind he's plenty savvy enough, I'd say he is at least as good as me. And yes his opinion counts as well, as we also need the opinion of the average CV player here. I might be a bit more savvy (I am like a knowledge sponge) but if you met him in game, he'll beat the crap out of any average CV player for sure - there's no doubt who is better, but he's good enough.

That is my problem as well, sometimes. Yes CV are OP, but sure cannot carry for any crap. I just cannot put out the damage that I can with a BB, or a cruiser. My divmate in the DD pushes out 150k no problem. The problem is, because of this, WG thinks CVs are fine.

It works, if the planes are slow. I had DDs dodge almost all rockets, only 2-3 hits. Well then they get blapped by teammates anyway, but just dodge. I also had BBs take just 1 torp instead of 3. Cruisers CAN avoid all, but usually they don't. Oh but that's with T4 speed planes in T6-7-8 games... well... just dodge. @Bear_Necessities nice job... yes Fat Freddies taste nice, eh? I guess that Graf Zeppelin was spaded.... oh well... he also tastes good... ...and with T6CV, less damage, right? Wel... actually for the mission I need kills... so... (tomorrow I'll do some Furious... see how that goes). You should be ashamed, only 50% in Enterprise!!! What did those suckers do, just dodge?

I've blapped many of them even in T6 CV. You either drop torps or use rockets. They are quite bomb-proof (against CVs with HE). I once went in with AR, somebody commented "but that's AA cruiser", I told them "was". Cost me ~12 planes to waste him. Would not have done it though if he hadn't held a "most wanted" position. I was coming through the channel between the islands... and he was at the end... Would have been faster with Furious or Ranger, but still...

Dude... I even attacked the MASTERRRS Enty in my Lexi, and after that he shot me, as well. We sure had lots of fun, it is entirely possible to attack the other CV. Works perfectly. Just that the CV has auto-mega-fast-repair and is usually at the other end of the map. Aaaaand CVs have the option to spawn lots of fighter squads... BBs haven't...and can be tricked to use it unwisely. Oh yeah and then there's GZ and dudes like you that spec secondaries (and AA, as a "freebie").

I've actually found that by cheesing T9 "O-sector" AND def-aa, it is very well possible torping T9BBs with Ark Royal... and not losing more than 3 planes. The biggest challenge is really how hard teams throw a game. yes I know... my own fault... shouldn't play holidays...

There would be an ewasy solution - you cannot div 2xCV, well maybe you also cannot div CV and 2x cruiser. Or maybe CV divs would be just the CV and BB/DD allowed. My guess is the last one is correct, but wouldn;t we all want that? And for the first part, have a look at his other stats and realise he doesn't really have a waifu. He has a whole harem of waifus. I'm not quite understanding that. I think it just means CV has to wait less, as "the same tier" is found more often. If there were also uneven tier CVs, they'd have to wait longer for the same tier CV to be found for the reds. Now there's just half the number of tiers. Does though. If there is no T7 CV, the T6 CV has to be balanced/do-able against T8. And since we all know what THAT means, it makes sense I still wreck stuff when fail-divisoning a T6CV and ending up in T9. Have mercy on the poor B@st@rds that get my T6 CV while being in a T5 ship... or my T8 CV (which still is OK in T10) in a T6 ship... Depends which you think is the lesser evil: have even and uneven tiers (wait a bit longer when playing CV), or the stuff we have now. Even so, WG could decide to give CV +/-1 MM. So a T6CV could meet T5CV or T7CV. Which would also shorten the wait. IMO that wouldn't matter much as the differences between CVs vary a lot anyway, depending if you take IJN or RN or US. Also, as long as they do not fix AA... the smarter CV player will outplay the potato by a mile anyway.

Yes you can. Make 1st AA-spec (AFT) increase the amount of flak closer to the ship. More FLAK, and faster appearing. Make the second-AA-spec (BFT) produce random flak, as well, and produce FLAK further from the ship. It will require A LOT of sh... ehh... kill to avoid that. Might make the ship pretty unattractive to CV. Then, make DEF AA actually follow the planes better. In AND outgoing. Sector+AFT+BFT+Def-AA would mean a whole sqaud shot down if CV presses the attack. Would mean "no fly" for 30 secs or so. The solution is not in the DPS AA, as then what happens: indeed what you say. And what happens now, last plane gets killed first... is simply... well...

I've got Salem... because I went for Worcester. Des Moines is a few thousand citadels away for me. Usually I take Salem to CB, and yes it is less versatile than DM. But due to the heal it can laugh at HE all day long. Not a bad ship really. Many times I just went "well FF this I'll do it anyway"and then the heal saved me, where a DM would have been sunk already. And yes guilty to the nutjob part, I'm just not THAT stupid (and I have Minotaur...).