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Fighter aircraft should be able to launch more often - I think the CV can attack me with rockets, torps AND the bombers before my aircraft is ready to fly again. But probably the fighter should not be THAT successful. More like he throws off the aim, and shoots down a few. Now he DOES shoot down a lot, but they just get replaced, and you get hit full-on accuracy anyway.

Usually with Queen E I just turn the whole ship... seriously, I do.

Had a bit of fun with a clanmate who wanted to do a T9, my clan is doubting the viability of the RN BB in Clan Battle a little... So I had to show off a bit. Started by going quite near the cap and blasting a great big hole in a Neptune with HE. Then next cap, same thing done to a Hindy. After that pulled a Notser in ront of yamato but had to do that to avoid Grozovoi torps. Yamato didn't spot me, and showed broadside so I loaded the AP and gave Yammie some citadels... Then proceeded to circle the island and take 90% of Grozovoi, who got killed by my clanmate, and went full-frontal upto the Currywurst... clanmate finished him. Zombie-heal kept me alive until Currywurst was finished, too. No kills but I think not bad for a potato. i think we see Conqueror in CB pretty soon.... BTW... still love Hood

This is certainly true. I'm doing Ok in the T6, but well, that is mostly if I am lucky with the MM. In a T7 game it is very hard, in a T8 game... your T6 CV is just a joke.

I think it will not, it is a silly idea that it will inevitably be so. Even if: Just make torps do more alpha damage - then CV will still see same damage, but ships have counterplay due to holes. But why you will not get less damage: The plane that gets put in as a 'spare' will be missing in the last round anyway. So, if it does not get inserted now, it will do damage later. No damage loss to CV. Same as when you fly it back to the CV by pressing F. Also consider: Suppose you have 12 planes (3 strikes x 4 planes) If you attack with 4 planes, two get shot, then two new ones come in. Now two more might get shot. You get 2 more. meaning your planes deplete quickly. Basically that WAS your second strike. If you get 2 planes shot, then you might consider to send the second (and third) strike somewhere else. As is now, you cannot. Planes get 'consumed' anyway. So it might even SAVE PLANES. Leading to MORE damage. Besides, the topic is about 'more interaction'. So it is about counterplay. Currently it is NO USE shooting planes, as they get replaced so the first strike always hits full. Also, if the damage for CV lowers, then the 'reserve planes' should not be hit by flak (or less). You could ALSO think of something similar for rocket planes. DDs will profit from 'holes', larger ships not so much.

Mate I've seen it we killed the single DD then killed 3 more and the 8-ship team still roflstomped the 12. Unfortunately I'm usually in the 12...

With a 'similar' setup and two division (if you have similar setup, you always end up facing the other division). You can slaughter your mates and have a laugh (or they kill you). I dunno why you'd get 3 divisions though.

IMO the main BS is that, after carefully lining up your planes for a torp strike, the ones that get shot down get REPLACED IMMEDIATELY by one of the above flying. IMO the one shot down should just leave an OPENING in the torp strike. So there the ship has an opening to escape. If it gets filled in, no fair. And I even say that as a CV player. It's just weird. The one that dived in for 'reserve' doesn't need to aim?

EXETER being wort the grind... I like it. 3 kills in T7 game. Whackadakka! Getting used to not having smoke, too. That Fiji was damn good, gave him +1.

If he was skilled enough, there is the same thing now as before - except NOW I may even survive... well, for a bit. I'd consider any ship with YOU in it kinda OP. Maybe if I get Hood and you get Yubari, eh... Players only complain if they get hurt. Nobody complains about potato food. Unless that potato food is too much represented on your side. Even then, it may mean: more food for you. Lately there have been lots of ROFLSTOMPS. At least if you had a potato CV before, he did not kill all the food. There was plenty left and if the red CV wasn't too savvy, you even might get some before he finished you. Note: If you had a really great RTS one before, you won the game but lost credits anyway because there was nothing left to kill... Getting a player like you in a CV on the team leaves two options: 1. You are on my team: oh man, go have a beer, he can (and will) do it all alone. Will probably end quickly... 2. You are on the red team: hope this ends quickly. Yeah probably it will. Go have a beer. And in the new CVs it is probably similar. But it is the same if you have a really good player in any good ship. Except surface ships are a bit slower, so you might actually get some score yourself (if you are on the same team) or live a bit longer. The consolance, there is always more beer in my fridge, for those occasions. Just drink faster if he's in a CV

The dropping to keep DDs spotted is because some #$^#$& nerfed the spotting for rocket planes. You actually can only spot DDs so close, that you cannot engage them with rockets. So you miss them... Then, returning, you are too far away so you have to start the attack even before you SEE that DD. So, the option is to drop fighters over the enemy DD, else you cannot even use the rocket planes. Guess what... that is what I do. I do NOT USE the rocket planes anymore unless I'm all out of everything else. Well not like using rockets on DDs in T6 games gives good XP. First you cannot see the DD, then after 3 attempts you finally hit it, meagre XP. I'd rather dive-bomb or torp an AA cruiser, really.

In Hood it was sort of OK, but if you were in any other BB you were toast when the CV wanted your butt. He'd just cross-drop you if he wasn't a total potato. Even if he wasn't: torp spam everywhere. And he had enough torps to make your life miserable as a cruiser in smoke, too. Now if you eat an airplane-torp, mostly you survive. Even two. But not then.

Mostly in KGV I got sick of the T9 games where everyone hides behind a rock, and bowcamps. The guns are not the main point except everyone else can shoot you, even cruisers, and you do meagre damage. IF you do not get blasted being 'first blood'. Man I had that lots of times. I'm not the most careful player though. Maybe THAT is why I like Queen E much better than KGV. But I don't know if Warspite is any better or worse. Different, probably - like Monarch and KGV. I did sort of like Monarch. THIS. In fact I'd rather take Queen E to a T9 game than KGV. Which is what we actually did, doing fail-divisions...

There is a counter thopugh - use a divid sion with Hood+ Sims and enjoy. We usually wreck any CV, or two if needed. Halfway the game we kill them if we see fit. Even sooner if they are stupid. Smart T8 CV can escape, but he has to try hard and will have not much time for anything else. Doesn't mean we win though, we had games wheer we killed 6 ships and our team still managed t throw it.

I the games I got, was mostly uptiered.... indeed it doesn't uptier well. OMG.... I know I will. Probably wait untill X-mas sale though... IMO the Monarch is what KGV should have been... they just switched the names. I have Hood too, haven;t noticed much differentce except it is better vs other BBs. Same thing, IMO this is the KGV and what they calla a KGV in WOWS is a fantasy. They taught me a lot about 'pre-thinking', really helped my game. And then came KGV... I put IFHE on the captain....

Yes it is up to the OP to decide, lucky we do not all like the same ships. I sold all after T7, and when I have Conqkek it will see use only in CB, I'm afraid. Man I hated the guns on KGV, gld to get the QE guns back on Monarch.

The short fuse AP means you citadel cruisers instead of overpen... And just pull the handbrake for turns... or plan not to turn at all. Turns on a dime when you pull the brake, avoids torps even better than the US ships (and I like those too).

Not as slow as the US gun-platform-barges... and solid as a rock. The guns just require planning... in case of emergency, turn the whole ship! Really the King George V after Queen E was a big disappointment for me. I re-bought Queen E and she will sail regularly in operations and such. Haven't got Warspite but will wait for a sale... she'll be mine...

Somehow, even though we old geezers like playing CV, any waifu-treatment seems kinda off-limits...

I'll hint you to 'breathplay', that should do it...

You wanna know how bad? THIS is how bad... the whole oot hides behind an island or in corner of the map. And then I have to get into cap... in a LION... obviously game ends before I get any good score... Oh man this is gonna be a long long grind to the Conqueror... and thereafter, back to T7 and never use it except in CB.

Meanwhile I di get the "special consumable"in slot 1 for the Lion. I wonder how that will work, clanmate said it was hilariously good. 40% longer DCP, on that zombie-boat, we'll see.

Since last update, the stutter got worse - was not even there f before, on my PC. On my sons PC there was SOMETIMES stutter, like in the port on Narai operation. The FIX indeed fixed most of it, though I did have to set shadows a bit lower. IMO that means the new update has some FPS issues in it.

I found that it sort of a Furataka with bigger guns. Not really suitable for island hugging, better keep moving... But I actually only have it as a rental, will be some time before I really get it. Yeah my clanmate says it is, too. Now on Grozovoi we'd like to know if the Legendary is any good.

Good examples. I think I won't bother getting the one for Conqueror. It takes the place of the concelment-module so I'll lose out on that. But these are the kind of things I want to know. Which is fine if you already own the ship, but i don't. So it is 'beforehand planning'. A lot of those things (I looked) might be worthless in the current CV-meta though. And they might be wortless becausse there are currently no CVs in CB. No doubt they'll be worthless again when WG decides to add CVs to CB... and so on. Since some here have LOTS more experience... bring it on.