Restricted to only one per team, CVs are extremely useful scouts and assault forces, able to reach out across the entire map with their squadrons.\u00a0 As mentioned previously, your fighters are great for spotting enemy destroyers and killing stray ships that get too far from the support of their fleet.\u00a0 Your weakness: a total lack of useful weapons on your hull, and a tendency to sink when enemy capital ships sneeze in your general direction.<\/p>\n
From a tiering perspective, you have it a little easier than most \u2013 it seems (I can only speculate here, but so far the games I\u2019ve observed back this up) that when the Match Maker situates a carrier against you in Team battles, it will be of the same tier.\u00a0 So taking a tier-7 isn\u2019t necessarily as crippling as it might be in a cruiser or other hull.\u00a0 You are guaranteed to face off against a same-tier CV in Ranked fights, but in Teams you may very well be the only CV on the map.\u00a0 Most teams are cautious enough to take along ships with good AA, so don\u2019t get too cocky if this turns out to be the case.<\/p>\n
One of the most important points to be made here for carrier players, however, is don\u2019t forget to move your hull.<\/em>\u00a0 Plot out a relatively safe course for your hull and send it on its way.\u00a0 Check back every few minutes to make sure you know where you are and where you\u2019re headed, and adjust appropriately.\u00a0 Too many inexperienced CV drivers just leave their hull parked where they started the game, and become easy meat for a sneaky DD captain.<\/p>\n Early game,<\/strong> your team needs your fastest fighters to be positioned over the caps and to begin hunting for the enemy Destroyers.\u00a0 If a CV is present on the other side, you\u2019ll start to fence with one another trying to drag one anothers\u2019 planes over friendly cruisers for a fast perforation.\u00a0 Most important though at this stage is that you are the eyes of the team even ahead of the DDs.<\/p>\n Mid-game, <\/strong>keep those destroyers lit up if you can, and plot some strike groups against the enemy ships as best you\u2019re able, especially against ships that are capping \u2013 a reset denies the enemy of a few ticks\u2019 worth of points, and it\u2019s almost always worth doing.\u00a0 Your eyes are still the most important asset to the team here, so keep the enemy fleet\u2019s location known to your own crews.\u00a0 If another CV is opposing you, your decision will have to be based on how easy or difficult it will be to commit actions in the presence of his\/her planes, or whether you can manage to draw a mistake out of the carrier by leading those planes over a friendly who has good AA.\u00a0 In team battles, this is where a \u2018strange\u2019 cruiser like the Atlanta or Mikhail Kutuzov comes in handy.\u00a0 At low tiers, a Farragut outfitted for AA duty can also help you out, as can (of course) a Cleveland or similar cruiser.<\/p>\n If you happen to note that the enemy has vacated a certain portion of the map, start heading that way with your hull.\u00a0 If there happens to be an unguarded cap point, by all means take it.<\/p>\n End-game,<\/strong> it becomes lots of strikes against the remaining enemy fleet \u2013 if you are winning, then by now your opponent is out of planes (if they had any to start with), and you own the skies.\u00a0 De-capping and destroying enemy ships, lighting up approaches where stray DDs might be shuffling around, and so on are the order of the day.<\/p>\n If you are losing, then it\u2019s very likely that you may be the last ship in your fleet.\u00a0 If you have no planes left, at least you can set yourself up to perhaps ram an enemy, but let\u2019s be plain \u2013 no planes and losing is pretty much lost.\u00a0 If you do have planes though, keep running strikes, particularly against enemies close to you in cap points \u2013 and drive your hull to capture those points asap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Restricted to only one per team, CVs are extremely useful scouts and assault forces, able to reach out across the entire map with their squadrons.\u00a0 As mentioned previously, your fighters are great for spotting enemy destroyers and killing stray ships … Continue reading