I will would accept CV play in Warthunder as long as they make it RTS style. The Overhead view, With ability to control several squadrons. Thats where wows lost me. When they changed their CV play to the crap they have now.
If you know of or played the sink the Yamato mission in Warthunder, you fly an aircraft supported by A.I planes in a squadron formation. You control the aircraft just as you would in any current Air mode in warthunder. Get shot down, you just take over one of the surviving A.I aircraft. I would have the option to manually attack ships for precision with proposed CV play.
Wows also dropped the ball when they took away a feature to select what aircraft to bring. Now it’s just a fixed set. Previously you could take more or less fighter, dive bombers, or torpedo planes. Or more aircraft at the expense of limited options.
Now for those who actually play naval, you know that AA is insane. I believe the majority of ships that would even see a CV in their battle rating could very well defend against aircraft. There would be nice bonuses for shooting down many aircraft.
I dare to propose that friendly players on the team be able to take control of a squadron with using spawn points.
I think a CV would have a stock aircraft option which would provide what ever aircraft was available on said CV. Beyond that, have an option to customize what aircraft to take. Squadrons would be limited to a degree and would have to be balanced to what the CV was capable of carrying. In other words I don’t think there will be long range bombers available for CV. Probably just naval aircraft.
this was my original idea for CV. i would like it if they could be able to launch squads of 3-7 aircraft depending on what aircraft they are. i also think CV would kind off work like a command ship for these aircraft squads.
map rework and game mode is the whole point of this discussion, we need to figure out a way that all these vessels can work.
the balance of carriers will never be perfect, but it can still work
both Italy and Germany have potential CV they can use. yes, there aircraft selection is very limited but not bad by my research (me rn 🤓).
Italy:
Aquila- 51
Re.2001
(could possibly have 66 aircraft but the planed Re.2001 with foldable wings never was finished)
Germany:
Graf Zeppelin- 42
30 Ju-87
12 Bf-109
(Or 44 aircraft if u count its older config)
i think Italy and Germany each have one more CV you can add to the list too.
edit:
Jade class and Weser class for Germany.
Sparviero is another carrier for Italy (i think).
I remember back in the day with Navyfield (mid-late 00s), people would cry at the thought of adding submarines, but it actually worked out well. I’m all for them being added. It would get me playing naval again, at least. Since my biggest pet peeve of the mode is how exposed and vulnerable you are upon spawning in blue water. Of course, they could also fix the maps as well so that both fleets don’t spawn across from each other like a 18th century line battle, with little to no cover in between.
As great as that sounds, some ships only do as well as they do because they are era mixed (especially true in coastal). It would be nice however for some attempt to reduce era mixing (i.e introducing more vehicles from a similar era where possible).
We would probably still need to distinguish vehicles both by era and class or we end up with RN Aqulia squaring up against dreadnoughts.