Aircraft Carriers - WT Discussion

Is it just me or do others see the way this new UI elements for SAMs could be applied to Carriers controlling squadrons.

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You aren’t the only one :)

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I hope I can sail this beauty some day

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I was seeing more as a use for ship launched anti shipping missiles. Ofc replace the radar screen with a map and allow for drawing flight paths and you could totally apply it to carriers, although I worry that’s a little bit sea power, naval warfare in the missile age.

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I can see that too. But I kinda hope that won’t be the case. Not too keen on staring at a map the entire time

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i hope one day i can sail her sister ship ijn zuikaku
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look how gorgeous she is.

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Yeah, they are the most beautiful class of aircraft carriers

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And I’m waiting for my favorites… IJN Shinano, IJN Taiho, IJN Jun’yō <3



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They are awesome too! Japanese ships just have something over them

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What do we think of possible BRs for WW2 carriers? Most of the planes are obviously low to mid tier (don’t think any are over 6.0), and at a too hogh br, they may be severely outclassed by jets brought by other players.

Any thoughts?

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Escort and other small carriers maybe 4 to 5. Larger and fleet carriers maybe 6 to 8. But that is me just basing it off the current way naval BR’s work. In my ideal world the lines are split into big ships, medium ships, small ships, stuff like that. So for example a ww1 battleship would have a similar BR to a ww1 destroyer. Avoids ww1 BB’s facing ww2 BB’s that slap it back to the dry dock in two salvos.

That would mean something like Shokaku, which only carried A6M Zeros (various versions) as fighters would come to fight things like F-80’s ans 262s all the time

That would be much better. And I believe something like that could work.

nah, assault carriers at 9.0

I guess we’ll get to 9.0 but what would gaijin even put there? Would we be truly in the cold war at that point?

Probably some where around 3.7-5.0

They are some gorgeous ships but I gotta be honest I cant wait for these ships.


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USS Hornet
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USS Yorktown

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Hornet would be cool with a squad of B-25s

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Really not a fan of those super huge stacks like that

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i just want this beauty

You know, i just had an idea. What if they took the Radar Screen from the new AA systems, and used that to make an Aircraft Management Screen for Carriers?

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