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Yeah you do, but about just as much time for the BB dufus to wake up, aim and pull the trigger. Usually it is NOT the DD that kills you. A smart one detects you and leaves it upto his BB mates. The stupid ones come for you. Those you kill. Well, unless they are damn good or paid RNGEsus 100 hippo's. I mean they're not getting away with sheep on this one. Once they came for me with 2 DD and a cruiser. Killed all of them. The cruiser was a "fleshwound" but that was RNG, could have been him first too. Usually though, when you are detected, expect "heavy incoming". From all directions. Try a captain build with Priority Target"for the LULZZZ when respec is free... BTW on US CVs with HE DBs I wait until last second to drop. Might be confirmation bias, but seems the RNG is less. Then again more seconds for them to melt the squad, and I'm not that good. I just have many sheep.

Mate do you expect "expert"CV at T4... OK maybe now you have lots of sealclubbers in Hosho. But still (and I am by no means any good at all):

You might have taken enough HP off those planes for the BBS to finally kill them, if they passed over you. Same sort of thing happens when me and my divvy have Hood/Sims. The one that is "on exit side" gets the kills. Might be because WG decided AA "shoots last -plane first".

Crap happens, you are just pink for a few matches, no biggy... Know what's worse... last time I got pink, I saw a Bayern behind an island... Prepared my CV to launch torp planes, hopped over the island, torped... hit one torp... hurraayyyyy... ...the realised IT WAS A DIFFERENT ISLAND and the Bayern behind that was NOT THE RED ONE. OK we both LOLLED about it later... but... man that was stupid.

Still works with 19pt captain with AFT and BFT (last time I tried CV couldn't get a torp/bomb in). Of course that's probably not a "pro" CV, if he wants to get you, he will.

I don't think he is, I can imagine people doing completely crap in it. But I'll buy it myself when it goes on discount. I like such ships. Also have a premium camo for Queen Elizabeth.

It is definitely a funny ship with a fat captain that has CE and IFHE...

You probably didn't get a CV... else it would have shown 45 planes dead, too.

Improvd my best with Ark ROyal, still haven't broken the 100K barrier. But regular 70-80K now so must be learning something (mainly w how to hit all 3 torps). And yes that's a T8 game.

Keep at it, you will find what you like and what you are good at. To me there are only a few reasons to get a premium: 1. I must like the gameplay it gives (so I wil never buy a DD... because I suck at them and the give me a headache); 2. I must need it for some line that I am grinding, or want to grind, or want to grind a captain; 3. It must be useful after... so I get a T6/7 which is still usable in Operations (wel... used to be...). 4. I did get a T10... after I had Conqueror, and I discovered my clan needed cruisers more than BBs. ...and that is what it is for, I do use it to grind US captains on though, when clanmates want to div T10. But I hate T10 gameplay, everybody just sits behind a rock and the first one to make a wrong move (=usually me) gets blapped. It is static as hell. I'll play T5/6/7 anyday, forget T9 as well as usually you get uptiered to 9/10 which is even worse. So far I have this lot, next one is probably Flint (T7, sold for steel).:

I'm sure WoWS will be correcting that when they release submarines...

We were focused as hell, and we got "blessed" with the same kind of teams too... You three did good, but you always get focused when you are in a CV or Rn CRUISER.

I suppose we'll get a 4th squadron incorporation planes with depth-charges. Yay.

Haha I had to "convince" the other CV to stay the hell away from me and go cap A, and then I had to go cap B but I FF-ed it up (or rather, the WG-AI-steering did it for me). I knew you were coming though, no chance to prevent it your planes are so much faster. But I'd have torped/bombed you better if that #@%@WG-AI-steering had not put me JAMMED between those islands. ANd yes that game was nuts. I told my clanmates we REALLY had to try to win this one...

We met @Bear_Necessities and @Mr_Tayto and @makkeru today, and we sealclubbered them. (no we did not, we barely won.... good game guys). Also we were on a bit of a winning streak.... only one defeat after we divved up...

Damndamndamn you were quicker than me.

Should be in the thread where DDs complain about CVs and being dead too soon. Guess what masterrrr, turns out we are doing some of them a favour.

If you have discord I'll try explain how to do 40-50K with it, easy.

Well don't be sad. Just think, and wonder how I know... For instance, I found out that helping teammates in AR is detrimental for credit income. Yes you can get that nasty DD of their tail... will take a while to get there... Say they report it when it is full health, by the time you get there will be 1/4 gone, then you shoot (50% dead), you turn and they have killed it. Then you need to fly out again... So, for that fly-out you get 2.5-3.5 K damage. While at same distance a fat BB could have yielded 15K. If you go around slaughtering most opportunistic targets, you can get 90-100K. I do that when I have a good game. Still need to have "that lucky game" and I dunno what I'll get then. So far, I'm happy if the game doesn't end in ROFLSTOMP. Either win or lose, you are happy then if you score > 30K. Those 5 minute games happen a lot, but well, you'll still make plenty credits... The potential is there to get 150-200K. But: - it means you have to get fires on some BBs, and they have to KEEP burning, and he needs NOT to get shot by teammates right after; - same thing about floodings and such... also... you'd need to "drain" a few. SO... without luck, no great damage. - also you need to be lucky on what comes your way, as you cannot go "hunting"... also you cannot "park closeby" because the detection range of AR is huuuuughe. - did I mention ROFLSTOMPS, yes I did, LOL. Usually in the 'average meh result' game I do about 50K damage (10-min games), even in a loss and without premium account still nets ~50-100K credits. The difference is because of WHAT you hit/damage/kill/wreck, taking out a whole DD gives more than taking out 1/4 of a BB. This depends more on luck than anything else, as with Furious you can go hunt and AR is more dependent on "what is on the menu". You CAN actually go hunt... but imagine a snail hunting for centipedes. But for a potato? Yes sure. I'd advise Ark Royal. Not much can go wrong... To get high damage in it, it requires a certain amount of "GitGud" though, you need to be better than me... OK that's probably not too hard...

True. True as well. But only rarely do you see players that are actually able to keep the blob AND do something useful. Most blobs are just campers behind an island. Yeah they "defend the cap". Which they do not have... Those games usually end because the other team has two caps, the blob keeps being parked behind an island at third cap, and slowly gets eaten by the other team. The ones "trying anything" have to leave the blob, and then they are dead. In fact I call that "tier Xgameplay" and it is boring as hell.

That's a big "if"there. Because: 1. Can that Yammie actually hit, or is there an island blocking the shells; 2. WILL HE hit... there i such a thing as dispersion; 3. Did he have the AP loaded... 4. will it be enough to kill the CV. Usually it is not enough, and the DD dies. I'm not that good, but I have killed two DDs and a cruiser that were coming for me. Mind, it means they had somehow escaped the whole team. And none of my teammemn bers actually hit them enough - means I had the most useless team anyway. Usually when I get sniped, it is because I get detected for my own stupidity or something. And then it is by that nutcase BB that everybody hates, because he went to map border not contributing anything. Well at least he got to kill the enemy CV... LOL. Only rarely do I really get hunted, and then it is usually because my team has melted quickly.

I have attacked an Alaska with Furious... twice... No I don't mean two flights. I mean two smacks on same flight. First flight with torps, then another with rockets. He ran. Hit two torps, got a perma-fire. Too bad my team got ROFLSTOMPED again. I'm not even close to being good, though.

I have played Hood twice as much as Arizona... which is my second most played ship. I like Hood because it is like a mega-fat cruiser. Sort of. I like BBs and cruisers. This is the one in-between. Also, you can do operations with Hood. Plus it's a creditmaker and great captain trainer. AA still is decent. Using the sectors AND the DEFAA, there is not much that will get through if you do it right. And... usually it is on sale at some time. I got Hood at half price. It is (for me) very different, because I only play the slow fat US BBs and the RN BBs. Hood is over 30kts, upto T7 the US BBs are 21kts... The guns on Hood are similar to those on Queen Elizabeth (which I like) but more accurate. Hood also turns much better - sure it is a looooong ship, but the response is much better. So what you get is like a BB on coke. Might be IJN or German BBs offer a similar experience, but I don't know. IJN BBs are more squishy though and German BBs have bad accuracy. You can really snipe DDs with Hood. Or get that blated cruiser that tries to get away. He'll have a hard time, because Hood is fast. And you can shoot them very well. Very often ith Hood, I have the "gotcha beeeeacchhhh" moment. I always like that.

Well here's what I do in the T6 CVs. I can do 100k in both Ranger and Furious, not yet in AR but close. Usually I play in weekends... riiight that is what you get, no matter how hard you try: a loss is a loss. This week has been particularly bad... However this is also how the CVs compare, IMO. Furious best, can pull games (carry? well... a bit). Ranger meh not so much. Ark Royal is same influence as Ranger, but more damage guaranteed ON AVERAGE than the other two. (and don't worry... I also had weeks where I had "unicum" stats. Both are BS. I'm Joe Average).

Weird stuff then. Maybe somewhere in the sub-conscious I do not want to hit Hood. IMO best premium ship from WoWS.