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I think it is the most likely scenario afer the hit, FWIW. 99% they have that right. As for torpedo targets, if I'm in a CV I'd rather take on a T7/8/9 German Bb than T7 Hood. Might be doing it wrong, but ship-agility and AA combined, I still get more dmg per dead plane on the Germans.

Even worse. Ark Royal can see T5 battles. Still it's not super-OP because of the slow planes. Like, yes you can just harvest anything at will but you will never get them all because you're not quick enough. It may still end in meh-result at T5 if teammates are any good. But even at T8 you'll never lose credits. You'd have to be unlucky PLUS stupid AF PLUS whatever to do worse than 20K in any match... which still makes credits... even if it's loss. (and do not ask me how I know that )

I'll just throw them further away in the water... oh wait...

That's the spirit. When past T6 you'll not have double CV often. BTW: I like T5/6/7 better than the higher ones...

Sovjet CVs will throw 4 submarines, with tanks on the top.

Could be. The only thing that is sure is that the magazine blew up. COULD have been a lucky shot, or two, or three. But it would also mean that the "lucky shell" pierced those layers, not exploding until in the magazine. AND it would have been plunging fire, well, the distance wasn't that great. But we'll never know.

True, but suspicious. There is no real reason why Hood would have gone boom for one shell.

Bought for 20. Son didn't want one, said it would be toooooooooo salty... But when they allow 2CV div, we'll get one anyway.

How about TWO "Fleshwounds"....

I'd mount Juliet but probably not Charlie, unless that's short for Charlotte.

I have Texas as well... love it... also guess what ship I play second-most-often... Yes first is Hood, then Arizona. More accurate New Mexico, really!

Seeing you like BBs/cruisers, you are sort of like me... (also your stats suck, like mine).... I have HOOD, and I really really like it. It is a battlecruiser of sorts. Very fast BB. Now I think you'd like something like Hood, so: - Hood; - Scharnhorst; - Dunkerque; - (maybe) Roma.... but that's T8. Those are fast BBs. Or get yourself a FAT cruiser. Plenty of those nowadays, and they said RN heavy cruisers are coming. I'd suggest PEF but it is kinda hard to play. I'd not get a high tier. I got Salem for coal and even though I can do 150k, don't like it very much. They say "high tier gameplay is difficult"but really it is not. It is predictable as hell and very very static. They all sit bow-on and spam HE, the main thing is 'positioning'. First one to make a mistake gets pummeled to death by HE-spam. Most maps I have found a spot where I can spam HE and do lots of damage... that's about it. But... maybe you are like me in another way as well... I like CVs. Try if you like it and get one... T6 Ark Royal is really troll. https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/124023-ark-royal-opinion-early/

You need to be careful at the start, but the guns are VERY accurate and can blap cruisers at 18km. Even if they are NOT broadsiding... also the guns have been buffed, to get the same pen as Warspite. Before, Hood was good to blap cruisers too - but lacked pen at distance. Not anymore.... Mind you need to KEEP MOVING. Never stand still, never reverse, never go less than half speed. Best is if you see a cruiser/BB, move in, take a few well-aimed potshots, then turn (...after they just fired...) and kite them. I've killed a Bismarck and a Gneisenau that way. They were chasing me, but I kept swerving... they did not hit, but I did. Hood doesn't have a good turning circle, but it can REALLY swing the asssss.... while keeping the guns aimed. Also, try the HE - it is plenty good, and you can just SWAT DDs with it ~12 km, due to great accuracy. The guns CAN troll you... I had games where I couldn't hit a thing. But i have also had STELLAR games where I blapped everything. The last ones are far more common. BTW 400 games in Hood.., next one Arizona at 187, then Lexington at 184...

SHould be, as Hood was better armoured than the Queen Elizabeth class. ALso, has the same guns but more accurate. Hood is a beast... in T7. The only thing is the T8/T9 you get. Then, not so much.

I bet some players would have huge fun controlling the ship-launched fighter planes.

Yes they did. By stuffing the turrets full of ready-to-load ammo... and cordite... ...and leaving fire-hatches open so they could transport the whammo-bammo quicker. Hood should not have exploded from 1 hit... but reminds me of others that did.

Yes and no. True we do not get "aim assist" on torpedoes and as such we have no RNG. However, even if you think they are "shooting straight" they still are not. Like DD torpedoes. If you look at long distance the variation is there. However... we can drop 'em real close... Definately, rockets and bombs have RNG though. Yes it's not bad, I'd still like the T4 Swordfish mechanism better.

Well, IMO that captain needs luck as much as wel do. The AR isn't really fast enough to prevent team potatoeing to death. Yes you can punish hard enough, but if you have a REALLY BAD team your score will still be ~40k. And if you happen to have a REALLY GOOD team it might be even less (you have half a ship done, and they have killed everything else already). It really has, everything considered and my opinion, only 3 disadvantages: - huge detection-range of CV meaning you need to be careful or they'll find and kill you; - slow slow planes... means you see crap happen but you cannot do anything about it; - bad turning radius on the Swordfish... you cannot REALLY troll ships like with T4.

I still think WG owes him new underwear...

Well, it still is crap, but less crap than before. You park behind an island, bet it stops short or overshoots. So always check and make sure... I sort of am like that too. Can't do much battles per week either, only in weekends. Well you probably know how weekends go...

I do want to play with my clan, which is why I go to T10. If it were just me, well the T8/9/10 gameplay gets more boring every tier you go up... My usual div-mate is my son, he plays DDs. More often we play "fun" matches, and we do not grind. I try to research a few lines, but not too many at once. I keep the ships that I like, also trying to upgrade the captains for them to acceptable level. Hahaha but you are actually GOOD, makes it a bit quicker. I need quite a few more games to get to the same result...

That must be it then, I keep a lot of them...

Well, since you have hidden stats can't see how many other ships you have. You might be a CV-main. However... I'm not there by a long shot. Almost have Audacious. But only just started on the IJN. How did you get them all?