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[FireShark]

Well, I don't mind a loli-torio BB (Littorio-class BB).

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

Sign me up for big boobs.

 

[KingArturia]

Time to give you guys eye cancer.

 

[moemoe-kyun]

I already watched it :D. That's fun. LOL

 

[ecael]

Devs tweeted for people to prepare their carrier fleets, guess we are doing the Indian Ocean Raid into IF Sri Lanka invasion. I bet we'll get a transport escort mixed in somewhere too.

 

[AB_Titty]

Spoiler: Furutaka Kai Ni~

at my own pace...

 

[moemoe-kyun]

Devs tweeted for people to prepare their carrier fleets, guess we are doing the Indian Ocean Raid into IF Sri Lanka invasion. I bet we'll get a transport escort mixed in somewhere too.

My CV and CVL are ready. Time to save more bauxite. >.<

 

[FireShark]

https://youtu.be/RyBxKhkRYA4
I think it was awesome, they earn a sub.


Baux? 50k here, I should be fine I hope.
My CV problem is the levels since CV have sucky accuracy.
Taihou - 91, Kaga - 83, Hiryuu/Souryuu - 81, Zuikaku/Shoukaku - 65, Akagi - 62,

Not a fan of CVL unless require. They aren't very good in Aerial Only nodes. Need more slots.
Drunkard - 81, Justice - 75, The Chi sisters - 50,

 

[KingArturia]

Devs tweeted for people to prepare their carrier fleets, guess we are doing the Indian Ocean Raid into IF Sri Lanka invasion. I bet we'll get a transport escort mixed in somewhere too.

I've all CV 70+ (including Amagi and Unryuu), CVL I've Jun'You and Hiyou 80+, Chitose at 58 Chiyoda at 50 and Zuihou and Ryuuhouat 56, Ryuujou at 75. I hope that enough, I'm a bit annoyed I've no Taihou yet but my Kaga is 92 and my Akagi is 96 so they should be fine. I'll craft more planes if I need to sortie more than my 5 main ones, otherwise I should have enough to sortie 5 CV/CVL at the same time.

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

Imma level my CVs some more :/

 

[Shir0]

I think I only have enough good planes for two carriers. :/

 

[FireShark]

As much as I hate the silly CV x6 leveling on 3-2A, I guess there's no choice now...and more Reppus needed. I smell a Shinden Kai (AA+ 15)i as E-1 hard reward.

 

[KingArturia]

As much as I hate the silly CV x6 leveling on 3-2A, I guess there's no choice now...and more Reppus needed. I smell a Shinden Kai (AA+ 15)i as E-1 hard reward.

To be fair, 1-6 showed me that they're going to bring back the double air phase back in AL/MI which is honestly what I think one of the best map ever, because provided you have enough Green to gain Air Superiority, its basically a free trip to boss node, and for that there's nothing more joyful than being wanpun during first node or pre-boss node.

 

[FireShark]

The problem is will you make all your CVs Reppu nest? All slots Reppu and lose the ability to deal damage to surface ships.
Still, I think most will go with a setup like so :

1x BB/CA, 1x Aki/Maya AACI, 4 CVs.
- 3 Reppus each, 1 Red. Maybe 1 CV will have to carry Saiun (3 Reppus + Saiun CV).

Now imagine this kind of route appearing,
Garbage node > Aerial node > IMAGINATION node (feeling good?) > Re-chan on pre-boss node (Elite on Hard mode, fked yet?) > Airfield Boss node.
Thanks for the delicious Baux.

Anyways, everyone needs to start crafting Reppu until you have at least 12 of them, just to be safe. Shiden Kai2 works too.

Save you the trip to wiki.
20/20/10/90 - Green plane only recipe.
Good Luck!

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

I have like 4 Reppu and 1 Shiden kai2.
I tried crafting 3k bauxite for nothing.

 

[KingArturia]

The problem is will you make all your CVs Reppu nest? All slots Reppu and lose the ability to deal damage to surface ships.
Still, I think most will go with a setup like so :

1x BB/CA, 1x Aki/Maya AACI, 4 CVs.
- 3 Reppus each, 1 Red. Maybe 1 CV will have to carry Saiun (3 Reppus + Saiun CV).

Now imagine this kind of route appearing,
Garbage node > Aerial node > IMAGINATION node (feeling good?) > Re-chan on pre-boss node (Elite on Hard mode, fked yet?) > Airfield Boss node.
Thanks for the delicious Baux.

Anyways, everyone needs to start crafting Reppu until you have at least 12 of them, just to be safe. Shiden Kai2 works too.

Hm, I don't get it. AL/MI was advertise to be a CV heavy map, I farmed over 50K Bauxite for it, oh I ended up using probably 15K. From what I remember, I sortied out Kaga, Hiryuu, Akagi and Zuikaku. They all had 2 Green, 1 red and 1 blue, other than Akagi who had 2 green 1 red 1 yellow. (red because I remember MI Princess doesn't take Torpedo damage). I think I had 4-5? Reppu/Shiden back in the time? The rest was running on 52. I think I was Level 90 back then, so not the Level 100 rotation I've now but still, MI Princess is probably by far the easiest map I've been through out of the MI Operation, heck I find E2 AL more annoying than MI Princess. And as much as CV can do damage, from what I notice BB/CV just have God awful accuracy in Kidou Butai/Surface Combined, so its not like them being a Reppu nest to obtain Air Superiority is that much of a problem, since I cleared E5 Hard last event without my Kaga attacking once, she had 3 Reppu and 1 Saiun equipped just to get me the Air superiority. To me CV itself is in such an awkward position right now, they're neither strong in terms of doing damage because of planes being shot down, then followed by God awful accuracy, to a point where they're pretty much just used for initial preemptive strike and air superiority rather than shelling phase itself. They seems to be good when used for support expedition though because they don't cost as much as BB.

 

[FireShark]

@Arturia Hmm, lets hope it isn't as brutal as I think it will be. Besides, remember we have AACI now. It would be funny when we can clear the map without the use of CV at all or CV being there for branching requirement.

And here's the Italy BB main gun. From wiki.

20 FP
2 AA
-3 ACC
-1 EVA
Very Long
Equip for BB and BBV only.

Who would want to sacrifice accuracy for a very long range? The best thing this gun has to offer is that fairy chilling there while eating pasta.

 

[ecael]

We've been doing 1~2 carriers doing nothing for over a year's worth of events and 5-5s anyway...at any case, 12 reppuu is a pretty good line to aim for.

As for baux usage during AL/MI, just keep in mind that the MI runs at E3/E4 were still busting from 6~800 baux a run depending on AA fire. It turned out to be ok because the event difficulty was low and you didn't really need to run it a lot for clear, but if the difficulty turns out to be higher baux is going to evaporate pretty fast.

 

[KingArturia]

@Arturia Hmm, lets hope it isn't as brutal as I think it will be. Besides, remember we have AACI now. It would be funny when we can clear the map without the use of CV at all or CV being there for branching requirement.

Who would want to sacrifice accuracy for a very long range? The best thing this gun has to offer is that fairy chilling there while eating pasta.

Wait what? Is that the development fail penguin? And I don't know about it this time but to be honest Bauxite shouldn't be too bad provided you're near 50K or so. And yea that's a really bad long range penalty, I personally rather use 46cm instead if that's the case, it seems really useless compared to the 46 overall >_> Dafuq I don't get this.

 

[Icchan]

@Arturia Hmm, lets hope it isn't as brutal as I think it will be. Besides, remember we have AACI now. It would be funny when we can clear the map without the use of CV at all or
And here's the Italy BB main gun. From wiki.

20 FP
2 AA
-3 ACC
-1 EVA
Very Long
Equip for BB and BBV only.

Who would want to sacrifice accuracy for a very long range? The best thing this gun has to offer is that fairy chilling there while eating pasta.

381mm/50 Triple Gun Mount
20 Firepower
2 Anti-Air
-3 Accuracy
-1 Evasion
Very Long

Bismarck's 38cm Twin Gun Mount Kai
17 Firepower
2 Anti-Air
3 Accuracy
Long Range

Haruna's 35.6cm Twin Gun Mount(Dazzle Camouflage)
15 Firepower
5 Anti-Air
1 Accuracy
1 Evasion
Long Range

Protoype 35.6cm Triple Gun Mount
18 Firepower
5 Anti-Air
2 Accuracy
Long Range

Doesn't sound bad considering it's a 38cm. You won't get the accuracy penalty from equipping it on a Battleship but rather you would get the accuracy bonus since it's a gun that they fits them. And besides...you can counteract the accuracy loss of the with the 38cms or the special 35.6cms. I'd probably stick to having double 46cms or Prototype 41cms though.


Also, PASTA!

 

[KingArturia]

381mm/50 Triple Gun Mount
20 Firepower
2 Anti-Air
-3 Accuracy
-1 Evasion
Very Long

Bismarck's 38cm Twin Gun Mount Kai
17 Firepower
2 Anti-Air
3 Accuracy
Long Range

I suppose this combination on Bismarck will give her priority on shooting? That's the only real usefulness I can think of

 

[FireShark]

But...you guys know that our BB just loves DDs. Long/V.Long doesn't really matter when they almost always targets those first. So, I rather have more accuracy so that they actually take out their "target" than miss the shot.

From my experience with Bismarck, about 85% she targets DDs when available.
Rare very rare occasion she actually aims at a BB. Until the devs actually bother to balance this crap (one can hope), I won't be bothering with this 381mm. Plus, with no actual stats for accuracy who actually knows how much a +/- 3 is worth. To me, the more the better.

You won't get the accuracy penalty from equipping it on a Battleship but rather you would get the accuracy bonus since it's a gun that they fits them.

What do you mean? About the 381mm, do we actually get -3 or it's just there with no effect?

 

[ecael]

There is a -3 and it is pretty severe actually. Icchan is trying to say that the fit bonus might apply to ships like Bismarck and it'd cancel out the effect, that result is imo pretty unlikely.

Incidentally there are some stuff atm far as acc formula goes but it isn't particularly firm yet. Loosely speaking though you can assume equipment acc modifiers to be almost as important as ASW modifiers from a calculation point of view.

As for the DD focus, I am pretty sure there is an internal bias for ships to target the things that they are likely to kill. Considering that the entire battle result is already transmitted from server at the beginning of combat, it might just be some lazy work on their part to try to reduce calculations.

 

[KingArturia]

Incidentally there are some stuff atm far as acc formula goes but it isn't particularly firm yet. Loosely speaking though you can assume equipment acc modifiers to be almost as important as ASW modifiers from a calculation point of view.

As for the DD focus, I am pretty sure there is an internal bias for ships to target the things that they are likely to kill. Considering that the entire battle result is already transmitted from server at the beginning of combat, it might just be some lazy work on their part to try to reduce calculations.

Aw really? I'm so glad the 51cm have no accuracy penalty, otherwise I'll cry a lot. And isn't the calculation only done up until Day battle? I thought Night Battle don't get calculated until you press the Advanced to Night Battle button, though I might be wrong on this.

 

[ecael]

51cm isn't fit even for Yamatos so there is in fact the fitness penalty in it still. That's just not a numerical value that people have worked into a hypothetical formula yet.

And yes, calculations are only up to day and the yasen portions will be transmitted after the pressing of yasen.