How many options are there? I know of Ise and Hyuga, and some Japanese cruisers
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Let’s see there is
BBV
Ise and Hyuga
Heavy Aviation Cruisers (CAV)
Tone and Chikuma
Mogami
Light aviation cruisers (CLV)
Ōyodo
These are the ones I can think of at the top of my head
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It’s has beeny personal opinion that for carriers to ever work in WT, they’d be CVE/CVL types an by extension MAC’s & Heavy/ Aviation Cruisers ( three/four currently in game Tone, Ōyodo, Baku, Kuznetsov).
A MAC would easily work as a test ship for the concept, MAC: Merchant Aircraft Carrier, a British conversion of bulk/oil carriers which still carried cargo but the deck was flush flat, it had a small island, it had guns, it had a small flight of sworfish & on some it had a singular Martlet (Wildcat) fighter, but they were still Merchant ships at days end, so they were slow.
After a MAC they could easily extend to a CVE of any type imo, but like I said in the beginning, you couldn’t go to far before their size would be to be for the mode to be effective.
Heh Baku, now you would be absolutely fun the Project 1143.4, an carry some Yak-38 & Ka-29 with just bombs & rockets. But Baku with its two 100 mm, eight CIWS, RBU-6000, ten 21" torpedoes, so many SAM’s…
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Carriers won’t be in the pipeline until a april fools event happens. This is not something you can just cram in.
Carriers are not in the game cause they will die before any planes could be launched into the air from them. One map where they are could be barely playable is EC Denmark.
Confirmed a while back actually, as a wip of course
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I guess I missed that
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How would carriers be tiered? Would they use the BR of the best plane on board?
Probably separately or have it be variable where you can equip any naval aircraft that you have researched idk, I think that would be nice, would go F6F-5’s, AD-4’s
Then where would be the limit, like what BR would the WW2 USS Enterprise be, and what planes could you put the limit?
The A-1 Skyraider, or even more modern?
In WW2 she had:
F4F Wildcat, upgraded to F6D Hellcat
SBD Dauntless, upgraded to SB2C Helldiver
TBF Devastator, upgraded to TBF/TBM Avenger.
I think it could work kinda like module research, where you upgrade each plane type to the later one used, and put the overall ship BR on the br of the highest BR plane, or on the average of all planes tha ship potentially has.
AD-4 was Korean War, but I’d say that would be the limit
playable carrier BR 's probably won’t have much to do w/ the BR 's of the aircraft, since ( as we’re seeing from their modelling in the files here and in mobile ) the aircraft are simply the weapon of the ship, rather than being independent or separately researched.
If they were based around that, you would quickly run into issues w/ things like Lexington CV-2 - already represented ingame in her last 8in gun forme - whose aircraft are not higher than 3.0 on their own. Obviously it would be unreasonable for any ship ±1.0 of that BR to be matched w/ that even if the aircraft were not usable at all ! And, it 's not the only carrier in a situation like that.
I expect the lower limit for carrier BR 's to far exceed the BR 's of their aircraft, so that the conventionally-armed ships they are matched w/ would not find it completely impossible to damage them to destruction using their guns if given the chance. So, probably not much lower than 5.0 in the current situation.
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i beg a differ
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not if they have there own spawn which puts them farther away from the battle because carriers were always farther behind.
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i feel like if anything they would have to do there research on the carrier from ww2 and see what form they would go with.
My bet being we will have a Battle of Midway event where you control fighter wings when that happens it’s for sure coming.
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Or a mission to kill Yamato. But instead of Yamato, you have to kill Soyuz, because I hate that thing
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I know its a joke but Battle of Midway just has a lot of Decal opportunities for the event. (This is my bet)
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So you expect unfair advantage for them? How long it should be 40km, 100km, 150km from battle? Behind the mountain? WT is at least semi realistic with 1-1.5 planes launched per minute you need 5 minutes only to launch the aircraft flight and another couple to gather them. On time when they arrive to the battle it will be over and will face 5.3-6.0 cruisers with outdated planes or you expect that early CA will fight vs reserve destroyers from 3.3?
Here’s a concept I made a while back on how aircraft carriers could work: Playable Aircraft Carriers [Concept]
Lemme know what yall think of it!
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