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
look how gorgeous she is.
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Yeah, they are the most beautiful class of aircraft carriers
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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.
USS Saratoga
USS Hornet
USS Lexington
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
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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Could be implemented, but it still makes aircraft management less “hands on”
As heretical it sounds, the WoWS had it quite well (well, the decades ago then I actually did play), there you can direct your wings to waypoints and/or take direct control over them
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Yeah, and WT has the potential to do even better;
Make you able to launch flights of specific planes with specific armaments
Make it controllable by map and plane/flight leader (you fly the lead plane) so you can basically switch map, flight lead and your ship
Pick a target for each flight on the map or you lead the flight to attack a target yourself
Kind of like in the Battlestations games, some of the best carrier gameplays in gaming IMO
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Listen I truly pray that one day Gaijin adds aircraft carriers it would be amazing. Ok im actually going to be honest yes its nice to see some super battleships BUT I would rather have aircraft carriers instead of the super battleships.
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