With the addition of the Aconit, which is literally a french flower class but with even more guns, playing naval has been a massive pain in the ass, along with cas being unusable and there no longer being any braincells required to play arcade.
So, how in the world do i kill this damn thing without bombs, arty, or another corvette. sneaking behind them is hard due to their bofors guns, 20mms, and 57mms, and going front on is just death to their cannons. Shooting their bridge does like nothing, shooting their boiler does barely any damage, and shooting the front does literally nothing as its a black void of nothingness, and the ammo magazine is located far from the front and away from hull. Autocannon spray does nothing due to their DD damage model, and main cannons take too long to kill them, when they can spray you down with 40mm fire in a few seconds.
You would think i would be playing a mtb or subchaser with shit guns, but no, im using the Pr. 1124’s which have TWO 75mm F-34’s, and they deal NOTHING to the bridge or citadel. Its easier to kill reserve destroyers than these fatasses. Ammo racks, bridge shooting, citadel shooting, whatever, dont work. Torpedoes are useless as they can tank them if you do hit, and they can dodge them easily if you fire at long range, and you will be gunned down if you get too close.
I haven’t played naval for a while…but THIS^^ was the best way to kill corvettes in the old days…either spamming torpedos from medium range or a couple well aimed at close range.
When i used flowers i never noticed the heavy armament you mention nor the “ease” in avoiding torpedos…i recall being very difficult to hit fast targets with the low speed guns. AAA guns would help at close range…but was a difficult ship to play…
EDIT:
Just checked…it still has 16knots top speed…it should be the easy torpedo target i recall, unless some update changed something…
For a real challenge try attacking a DD moving at 30 knots :) in open waters with a torpedo boat…was exhilarating when done right…(tip: zig,zag like crazy and never slow down…same for corvette)
They are big and slow, yes, but they are incredibly durable and can tank torpedo hits sometimes. Also, They have a 40mm on the back of them, and the french one has 2 57mm’s AND the 40mm, and i dont really have any boats with torps i use often, and even that, they can dodge them.
Problem is that you cant get at medium or close range without getting murdered. I play just naval arcade and with bots being laser accurate and free aimbot for players, along with them having multiple 20mms on the roof and a 40mm in the rare, its basically impossible to get in effective range if they are good. Also dodging wont do much if you are getting beamed by 40mms
They have gotten significantly better aim since the hornets sting update, although they give the same rewards for killing them as player kills, and their behavior is still basically the same, which is like 50% of them being floating AA guns at spawn and the other few rushing to a random spot and camping there.
If you rush them from behind, unless they are alone, you will get obliterated by players and bots and they still have a 40mm on the rear and 2 20mm’s on the bridge, as well as the new french aconit having TWO 57mms on the rear along with the aforementioned autocannons, and the side isnt much better as you can still be shot by the autocannons and main cannon, and the front is covered by the roof 20mms and the main cannon.
I get torpedoes and artillery can kill it but artillery is limited to torpedo boats… and so are, well, torpedoes, and artillery is a dice roll and torpedo runs are suicidal.
Also, im playing 2.3 USSR coastal and have the komosomolets, and PR. 1124 early and late, but use mainly the late and early pr. 1124. What im wondering is how to kill them without torps or arty.