Overall, don’t have any good expectation on AshM. Most of them are auto-locking, meaning super-structure would be it’s main targeting, and not a big threat to ww2 armored ships on that case. Actually, even nowadays destroyers and frigates are extremly hard to kill sole with AshM, as USS Thach shown in 2016.
On contrary, SAM would be fatal to game, as precedent Saetta, Douglas, and Bravy shown in later games today. It is extremly hard for ww2 props and early jets to evade even salcos missiles used by those ships. While Gaijin mentioned they were not interested in ‘modern’ naval missiles, almost every sam used on ship with SARH seeker, can be described as SALCOS missile in game as Douglas’ tartar missile does(and not 100% unhistorical as naval missile ‘follows’ signal from illuminator), and will be deadly even to the highest BR planes.
also nuclear warhead on naval shell/AshM is exremely dangerous for who using it as it can escalate into nuclear warfare without getting significant strategic result. Now even Granit with nuclear warhead is out of service for that reason.
this already happens in naval AB even in low-tier when a Douglas or Saetta is present in the enemy team. One can sometimes evade missiles but in a plane you are usually looking for targets and not for incoming missiles in your WW2 aircraft
well I’m not the arcade player, and I’m already talk about decompression and even made my own thread about decompression of capital ship in naval realistic. I don’t want to care about naval arcade.
Fair, though CAS are still a very present annoyance in RB. Early battleships with no AA are slow lumbering hulks that get dunked on by practically everything else even at their own tier, and anything to alleviate that is welcome in my book.
Quite a number of 7.0 capital ships have decent AA protection to protect their own. Some exception are Bayern class, HMS Barham, IJN Hyuga/Mutsu/Amagi, which are except for Mutsu and Amagi, not a front line service capital ship anymore for each nation ingame. That’s why I exclude 7.0 as ‘spamming’ situation.
Yeah, EC with a 25 min timer, the br system so you won’t get clap by a schannorst in your destroyer and my hopes that we can make the dev understand that the curent formula for naval does not work anymore.