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As you can see here, two cap points exist on this map, in the center and NE corner among the islands there.\u00a0 Since the SW corner has no cap in it, it is by nature less important, but can offer some interesting strategies.<\/p>\n
Each square on this map represents XY<\/u><\/strong> km, so the caps themselves are about ZZ across.<\/p>\n Usually, a fight will focus around the A cap in the center, with peripheral conflict taking place over the B cap between smaller and fewer ships.\u00a0 Battleships on the North side tend to drift about slowly between D2 and A5, while those on the South side end up moving H6 to E9.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying this is bad or good, this is just what you will usually see.<\/p>\n From a recommendation stance, I always like to see teams push on A right away.\u00a0 I\u2019ll explain in the summary section.<\/p>\n Starting from the North side, the choice of which cap to push with your big guns will decide really how fast this game will go, and your team will end up choosing whether this is a \u201cfight now\u201d or \u201cfight later\u201d option.\u00a0 Have a look at the image below.<\/p>\n Pushing cap A takes advantage of the fact that your ships are already pointed nose-on to the enemy, giving angled armor and smaller profiles to shoot at, while your forward guns will have unobstructed shooting at the enemy.\u00a0 Pushing cap B uses the islands to provide cover for your weak sides, and although the islands will also block your fire when they interpose between you and your target, you\u2019ll also have the opportunity to fire all your side guns with minimal steering adjustment.<\/p>\n Atlantic, North Side Start<\/p><\/div>\n General Strategy:<\/u>\u00a0 send one DD to cap A right away, one DD to B as well (potentially with a second if you have it to spare and it looks like the enemy might have enough to cause trouble for the first).\u00a0 Main force straight to A and start focus-firing cruisers if they have no DD to shoot.\u00a0 The DD capping B should reinforce the main fleet as soon as job\u2019s done, or act as a delaying force if the enemy is pushing at B.<\/p>\n Approach 1<\/u> is a general pathing of where you\u2019d go when pushing B cap \u2013 you don\u2019t want to go further North because you\u2019ll take more time to reach the cap than the enemy will (and they might gain a slight point advantage out of this), and you don\u2019t want to go further South because this will expose you to concentrated fire from the entire enemy team.\u00a0 Sending one or two fast ships (DD or DD+CA, but never without a DD) here for a fast cap of B \u2013 or two prevent the enemy from doing so \u2013 is best.\u00a0 If your DD reaches the cap and can cap without opposition, any extra force should detour back to A cap and help the main fleet.\u00a0 It is worth note that the team starting on South side has a good chance that they\u2019ll be pushing this cap too \u2013 in which case your DD can smoke and torp for a short time to intimidate the approaching fleet, with the intention of denying the area for 15-30 seconds or more.<\/p>\n Approach 2<\/u> is obviously the path to take when pushing A cap\u2026a straight-on approach.\u00a0 This keeps your nose pointed at the enemy (to make best use of your armor), and you can make minor changes to your course if your enemy team is making a heavy push to B cap.\u00a0 Your ships can also support a DD on B cap with long-range fire if needed.\u00a0 The bulk of your fleet should be pursuing this course<\/em>, with DDs in the lead and big guns training their weapons on the cap point in order to quickly put fire on enemy DDs lit up by friendlies.\u00a0 Cruisers should precede BBs by a few kms, and spread out a bit so that one is closer to Approach 3 in case an enemy DD decides to try any funny business.<\/p>\n Approach 3<\/u> is generally useless, except<\/em><\/strong> if your team has four or more Destroyers \u2013 if this is the case, you should hold three or more DDs with your main fleet and detail one or two fast gunboats along route 3.\u00a0 This is absolutely necessary if the enemy also has 4+ DDs, as they are almost guaranteed to be sending at least one your way along that path as well.\u00a0 A carrier squadron can easily sub in for a DD here.\u00a0 If your detachment meets no opposition along the way, then you have two DDs who have potentially set up a crossfire against the enemy fleet.\u00a0 Just make sure they have the brains to evacuate if the entire fleet comes down after them (because then they can lead the fleet around on a goose-chase while the rest of your team caps A and B).<\/p>\n Carriers should put a fighter squad over both A and B cap as soon as possible to light things up and hold them lit until the air battle begins in earnest.\u00a0 Sending a bomber squad over approach 3 can also be useful, so long as you can retrieve it quickly when needed.<\/p>\n Alternative Strategies:<\/u><\/p>\n The South side start for this map, as I mentioned before, does have a slight differentiator on the determination of how this fight will work out \u2013 you won\u2019t get to choose now\/later the way the North side will.\u00a0 To look at it plainly it might appear that you have just as much option, but really that\u2019s a deception here.\u00a0 The reason being is that if you go and push heavy to B cap, you\u2019ll be presenting your broadside through open water to ships which are able to fire from the cover of the North islands (using spotter planes or approaching to invisi-fire distances).\u00a0 The North starters, being closer to island cover, get to choose to duck into cover before being spotted or to charge nose-on.<\/p>\n Your start position is also (and I bungled it a little on my map here) a little closer to the South islands, which is probably what the map designer considered a \u2018balanced\u2019 position.\u00a0 If this were only a single cap in the center, that\u2019d be true.\u00a0 These caps must have been added after the designation of start positions though, because even though your team will start as close to cover as the North team, the cover is missing a significant strategic factor \u2013 a cap.\u00a0 And in this game, capping is winning.<\/p>\n Atlantic, South Side Starting Position (approx)<\/p><\/div>\n General Strategy:<\/u>\u00a0 My recommendation for this start sounds remarkably like the North side:\u00a0 send one DD to cap A right away, one DD to B as well (two if you have them to spare and one might not be enough).\u00a0 Main force straight to A and start focus-firing cruisers if they have no DD to shoot.\u00a0 The DD capping B should finish capping and either scuttle around the North side of the islands if there is no opposition, or head straight to B if the big fight is there.<\/p>\n Approach 1<\/u> is a general pathing of where you\u2019d go when pushing B cap \u2013 DDs follow \u201c1a\u201d and CAs (and possibly Russian DDs) follow \u201c1b\u201d.\u00a0 Reason \u2013 DDs will spot approaching ships with less chance of giving away their position and taking fire, while CAs can hide their sides from long-range snipers behind the island during the approach.\u00a0 If you have no DDs, it might be worthwhile to send a fast cruiser there, but without Destroyer cover, a cruiser will likely do nothing but get his ticket punched by a lightweight enemy throwing a torp wall from behind an island at <4km.<\/p>\n If your DD meets no opposition here, any accompaniment can return to help the main push on A (though it will have to either circle and go N of the island, or lose time by circling in the shade of it).\u00a0 It will also be presented with two good follow-up choices \u2013 head NW through the islands to get the enemy in a crossfire, or head SW to join the main fleet on A cap.\u00a0 Given the nature of the fighting that is likely to be going on, heading straight into the fight is probably going to be a mistake, as you\u2019ll get spotted right away and the entire enemy fleet probably has guns already pointed in your general direction.\u00a0 Instead, the better choice is the North West line, which will give you the chance to ambush any approaching forces trying to take B away, and if you don\u2019t meet any, you then can catch the enemy with most of its guns pointed away from you.\u00a0 If they want to shoot you, they have to stop shooting your main fleet (either turning their hulls or their guns away, either of these grants an advantage to your fleet).\u00a0 You may also be able to direct their movement with torpedoes, and there\u2019s a good chance you can score some torp hits on enemies who aren\u2019t expecting them to come from behind.<\/p>\n I quite often see Battleships following the \u201c1b\u201d route\u2026and while they occasionally manage to dominate the cap, four times in ten they get deleted by an enemy DD in short order, five times in ten their main force gets eliminated quickly on A cap (leaving them as stragglers with a point and ship deficit that then have to fight their way to try to take A cap from a superior force), and perhaps<\/em> one time in ten they manage to win the game.\u00a0 RNG is probably the deciding factor on that.<\/p>\n Approach 2<\/u> is the recommendation for the main body of your fleet, just like the North starters.\u00a0 It keeps your nose pointed at them to max your armor while taking the shortest route to a cap, and gets the fight on fast.\u00a0 Support for a DD on B cap can occasionally be performed, but largely this approach just forces the enemy\u2019s hand if they want to take points on A.\u00a0 As with the North side, the bulk of your fleet should be pursuing this course<\/em>, with DDs in the lead and big guns training their weapons on the cap point in order to quickly put fire on enemy DDs lit up by friendlies.\u00a0 Same deployment pattern.<\/p>\n Approach 3<\/u> is still the runt of this contest.\u00a0 Same deal as for North start.<\/p>\n Carriers should put a fighter squad over both A and B cap as soon as possible to light things up and hold them lit until the air battle begins in earnest.\u00a0 Sending a bomber squad over approach 3 can also be useful, so long as you can retrieve it quickly when needed. \u00a0CVs should get their hulls towards G\/H 9-10 initially, and then follow in the shadow of the main fleet about 8km behind.<\/p>\n Alternative Strategies:<\/u><\/p>\n As mentioned, this temperate map is dominated by a large swath of open water between the two start points, and has a mix of islands scattered about. 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North Side Start<\/h4>\n
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