IJN Kaga

[CptMinia]

So um... first game in Kaga. Yeah, good ship girl and definetly a good carrier. Shame wows replays suck for carriers.

 

    

[Redcap375]

Against a Ranger...I would expect that 

 

[Corvi]

Complete crap ship, gets wasted by pretty much everything. Hiryu completely owns it in every way, not even speaking about anything that remotely has US fighters .. 

 

Waste of money, im very disappointed by it.

[SBS]

From me experience it is a really good ship if you just focus on locking down enemy fighters and just suicide you own strike craft against enemy targets. You will tickle down enemy HP faster than the other tier 7 carreirs due to the amount of strike craft you got.

 

Seriously, it is a stupid ship, just like Saipan, and completely ruins CV match making, not to say you can't balance CV with ships AA and now AA has to be balanced against both tier 9, 7 and 6 planes, how the hell did WG think this was a great idea?

 

They need to stop this whole "every ship needs to be special" as all it just is make balance even more impossible.

[xXx_Blogis_xXx]

160k u call this much ? wow even with hiryu did more

[CptMinia]

160k u call this much ? wow even with hiryu did more

 

Never called it "much". Just thought I'd share my first game results in her... 

[xXx_Blogis_xXx]

 

Never called it "much". Just thought I'd share my first game results in her... 

 

aha understand well enjoy games until face  good cv player

[CptMinia]

 

aha understand well enjoy games until face  good cv player

 

You're a cocky one aint ya?

[kfa]

 

aha understand well enjoy games until face  good cv player

 

how about showing up your Kaga bashing and "my Sapian is overpowered feed me" posts to where the sun never shines?

Boring troll is boring.

[kfa]

Complete crap ship, gets wasted by pretty much everything. Hiryu completely owns it in every way, not even speaking about anything that remotely has US fighters .. 

 

Waste of money, im very disappointed by it.

 

Well i know that the small sample size can be deceiving but the chances of being lucky 4 times is low, right?

my initial stats after 4 games, all solo, 1 T8 game, 1 T9 game:

 

Average Score per Battle

Experience 2,349.00
Damage caused 115,217.25
Warships destroyed 2.50
Aircraft destroyed 32.00

 

I wouldn't call it a waste of money, i find it even stronger than the Belfast.

[159Hunter]

160k u call this much ? wow even with hiryu did more

 

so you do 160k every Hiryu game? If yes, then you are right, this isn't 160k.

However I sincerely doubt it, so it is a lot.

[xXx_Blogis_xXx]

how about showing up your Kaga bashing and "my Sapian is overpowered feed me" posts to where the sun never shines?

 

Boring troll is boring.

 

i think you should hide with your cv stats no 1 talked you

 

 

so you do 160k every Hiryu game? If yes, then you are right, this isn't 160k.

However I sincerely doubt it, so it is a lot.

 

i finished haku 1.7 year ago , but sure my max dmg at hiryu more then some at you post here

[Redcap375]

In the hands of a good player its very good,against a bad CV player it's deadly. The problem is when it faces a good CV player in a Sapain then it gets owned. Plus people are still getting used to it. A very good Clan m8 CV captain has it and says it awesome, but even he says he is getting uses to the drop pattern.

 

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​It all depends on the skill of the CV captain. Experience effects CV captains more than any other ship. A Kaga in the hands of a experienced captain and you will farm damage, simple.

 

 

 

​The Ranger is completely dead and the Hiryu is inferior. You wanna look at PTW, then look no further than tier 7, especially CVs. It's happened so come to peace with it chaps

 

 

 

[Yohane1]

 

i think you should hide with your cv stats no 1 talked you

 

 

i finished haku 1.7 year ago , but sure my max dmg at hiryu more then some at you post here

 

i was gunna check your stats. but it seems you hid them because you're not proud of them. That's atleast what wows-numbers said. Apperently you are either braggin for something you don't have. Or you are scared of people fact-checking what you are saying.

[Ragweek]

160k u call this much ? wow even with hiryu did more

 

 

Close to twice your average in the saipan.

 

Even with you playing divisioned up with aaa cls 

 

[Elenortirion]

there is only one thing I can say on the matter of this specific ship:

 

[Ragweek]

there is only one thing I can say on the matter of this specific ship:

 

 

Agreed the people who have played this and say it's crap, clearly cannot play strike cv's . 

 

As mentioned in that video "it has the same torpedo hitting power as the teir 10 IJN cv"!

 

It's as clear as day it's a awesome strike cv. Every half decent cv captain knows a ijn strike cv is better than a as one. The same is even true on us cv's IMO . 

 

This uses all the strengths of the as vs strike argument.  Yes you're damage output will be reduced when facing a pro cv or descent "AS" one but you should still be able to out damage them as you have fighters too. These may not win vs saipan's fighters  but they can escort your payload with them until you run out of fighters. By this point the game should have been decided.  

[Elenortirion]

It's as clear as day it's a awesome strike cv.

 

maybe even to the point when I'd risk saying overpowered on - the weird drop pattern, while showign that WG did try to do something to make it different han old removed t6 saipan, instead of lowering effectiveness of those torp bombers, have as far as I can tell only increased it for anyone who knows how to use it :|

 

Every half decent cv captain knows a ijn strike cv is better than a as one.

 

this one could be debatable though based on few factors.

firstly of all there isn't alot of decks in IJN tree that could be fairly called "strike decks" mostly it's a choice between balanced and more AS-ish but still retaining strike power.

 

for randoms on average probably balanced-balanced would yield better results although for rankeds/team battles the more AS-ish ones may be preferable.

but then when you look at it - the Taihou or Hakuryuu AS deck retains full strikepower of hiryuu/shoukaku balanced decks and ryujous strike deck - and thats without taking into consideration planes in those squads [their speed, survivability etc.]

The same is even true on us cv's IMO . 

 

as far as I know [can;t be 100% sure as I never played USN CVs] their issue is that they severly lack the flexibility of IJN CVs - they can only chose extreme where AS deck have no strike pwoer worthy of mention, while strike decks have barely enougth fighters to try to bait out unskillfull enemy out of their strike force.... assuming they have any - unlike IJN CVs that even on their more AS oriented loadouts have more than enought of striking power to help the team in taking out enemies, and in their strike oriented decks they still have enought fighters to at least protect their strike force if anything else fails - and high tier AS decks loosing nothing of striking power when compared to previous tiers strike-oriented decks? sounds like pure profit

 

the only real exception in this case for USN is t7 premium saipan, which have a choice of decks between good AS and good strike, vs godly AS and still okaish strike

 

This uses all the strengths of the as vs strike argument.  Yes you're damage output will be reduced when facing a pro cv or descent "AS" one

 

to quote the iChase here: "when you meet good saipan player he will be irritating". last time I checked things that are "irritating" are still in a rather on lower magnitude of painfullness, which makes the choice of words kinda interesting

 

one think I am sure after watching this review though is that if I ever meet kaga in my hiryuu I'll keep fighters close in early stage of the game expecting him to try his luck on sniping me - and then hope on him being foolish enought to try this trick more than once so I can strafe his bombers more without him taking out our BBs instead....

[Viktor_Lima]

I've played a nice sample of games in Kaga now and I've yet to meet a competent Saipan. Yes, they're out there, but the truth of it is that in most games you can use your pearl harbour level strike power to destroy the enemy team before the enemy CV can stop you. If you haven't played her, you have no idea how the torpedo speed feels compared to the USN snails dropped by Saipan. You can drop far out and have the power to one shot a Bismarck to boot.

I have a Saipan and Kaga is so much more fun to play, because in Saipan time can be very pressing in a bad team. You trade power for consistency. Kaga can just load the team onto her timber deck and carry it home. And to quote a Mahan I encountered in my 6th or 7th match: "Wow, that torpedo spread is scary!"

[SexyCroat]

I've played a nice sample of games in Kaga now and I've yet to meet a competent Saipan. Yes, they're out there, but the truth of it is that in most games you can use your pearl harbour level strike power to destroy the enemy team before the enemy CV can stop you. If you haven't played her, you have no idea how the torpedo speed feels compared to the USN snails dropped by Saipan. You can drop far out and have the power to one shot a Bismarck to boot.

I have a Saipan and Kaga is so much more fun to play, because in Saipan time can be very pressing in a bad team. You trade power for consistency. Kaga can just load the team onto her timber deck and carry it home. And to quote a Mahan I encountered in my 6th or 7th match: "Wow, that torpedo spread is scary!"

 

totally wrong, farmed 4-5 clear skies on Kagas  in my Saipan just today, all of those were victories, i even encountered a unicum Kaga, he still didnt have a chance against Saipan, so fun or no it is far far worse than Saipan... sry it is, and yes i am available for training room exibition to prove it

[Ragweek]

Must have got his unicum status in other ship types.

 

As I am not too bad in the saipan and even though I did get over 50 plane kills against a Kaga. The good one I played still managed to pull off a few devastating strikes.

[pra3y]

 

Had an all tier 7 CV meetup  

 

Green team won

[General_Alexus]

Kaga is just stupid, first they nerfed 12 TB Setups for T5-8 IJN CVs ( and T9/10 USN ) because they were ( Quote ) BAD FOR THE GAME ​ and now you can buy yourself back into the fun of playing like it was back in the days.

WOW you have weaker planes, but an huge amount of them to throw away, and your Torps are better than the T10 ones ( well not difficult as T10 CVs use the T5 Torps )

 

Well i hope for WG this is just a Test for CV Balance, and we get faster Torps at T8-10 as well to Counter broken BB AA at this Tiers ( like it Counters the weakness of the low Tier Kaga planes at T7 )

they could as well give me my 12 TB Setups back.

[ThePurpleSmurf]

I have no clue about CVs and I really don't care about this class at all but I just noticed a thing that looks really stupid even for me as CV illiterate. Saipan is a T7 premium and got T9 planes while the T7 premium Kaga got T6 planes? Seems totally fair and balanced to me. 

 

[Ragweek]

I have no clue about CVs 

 

You said it!

On a more serious note for your benefit:  it was balanced by having x2 the number of torpedo bombers in the air. plus it has the ability to start fires after too!