Nations & first Ships for a Newbie

[Verblonde]

25 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

I'd say, I'm average and haven't experienced much of an issue with killing USN DDs in my T8 CVs. You basically would have to invest fully into AA to actually make a difference and even then, your hp might take a good few hits that can hardly be recovered.

You may well have met people who haven't yet fully adjusted; whilst a T8 CV is worthy of respect in any of the US DDs I commonly play, I would expect to give the majority at least a run for their money - then again, I have at least 13 point captains in all of them (with BFT), and have at least one AA module mounted i.e. I haven't gone all-in for AA, but am at least partially tooled up.

 

I also know to try and avoid fire from enemy ships when spotted by planes, so dealing with a single-axis threat presents less trouble (and allows more scope to manoeuvre such that a reinforced AA field is facing the planes more often/for longer).

With (at time of writing) north of 5.7K battles, I suspect you're being rather modest apropos your own abilities too...

[HaachamaShipping]

1 minute ago, Verblonde said:

You may well have met people who haven't yet fully adjusted; whilst a T8 CV is worthy of respect in any of the US DDs I commonly play, I would expect to give the majority at least a run for their money - then again, I have at least 13 point captains in all of them (with BFT), and have at least one AA module mounted i.e. I haven't gone all-in for AA, but am at least partially tooled up.

 

I also know to try and avoid fire from enemy ships when spotted by planes, so dealing with a single-axis threat presents less trouble (and allows more scope to manoeuvre such that a reinforced AA field is facing the planes more often/for longer).

With (at time of writing) north of 5.7K battles, I suspect you're being rather modest apropos your own abilities too...

To get anywhere, you need BFT, Manual AA, defAA and good base dps. Like, if I play Sims, I can get some kills with my 17 pt AA spec captain that can just throw like 400+ dps at the the enemy, but needless to say, that hurts T6s, it annoys T8s, but neither will be discouraged from killing me if they really want me dead and dodge flak. defAA there only helps because any flak burst is an insta kill. But if you don't fly into the flak bursts... I did get pretty nice drops on Gearings in my Kaga, so, lol.

 

And there are people with 13k battles and 45% WR or so. Number of battles says little about skill.