How to play and control a Royal Navy Hermes Aircraft Carrier?

[Briton]

Now, I own a Royal Navy Hermes Aircraft Carrier, but there is no academy about her.

Please teach me how to control Her.

May God Bless Her Majesty!

[Guara Ookami]

Press 1 twice to launch rocket attack planes (they have 25MMs of pen in the rockets i belive) they have relativly good pen for its tier but they lack in accuracy, still good for anti DD duty.
press 2 twice to launch torpedo bombers, they are more than a joke in hermes, you only drop one that does around 4-6K damage irrc but they are tanky.
press 3 twice to launch carpet bombers, they have meh accuracy and meh penetration but they do wonders against lightly armoured cruisers like kuma and can set a decent ammount of fires on BBs.

[Briton]

Yes, Sir!
But how do I control the fighters to fly to enemy ships? I can't see any "target cross hair" when my fighters are flying.

[Hiei]

Originally posted by Briton:

Yes, Sir!
But how do I control the fighters to fly to enemy ships? I can't see any "target cross hair" when my fighters are flying.

When you fly over target ships you press f (I think it's F)
It has a pic of a fighter where your consumables are..or maybe it's cross hairs

[Bravo]

F is recall planes to ship

[Guara Ookami]

you only get fighters at tier 6, F is to recall planes, you cant really control fighters after you call them down anyway.

[DeviousDave]

F is to recall planes to the Carrier.
1, 2 and 3 Launch strike planes when controlling the CV hull
Mouse movement turns the planes gently.
W,A,S and D turn the planes greatly.
M2 (Mouse right click) is free look

There should be a grey/white coloured marker that designates where your aiming point is.
When you press M1 (mouse left) the planes start an attack run and the aiming area turns orange.
Once it turns green, pressing M1 again will fire at the target area.

See this link for a more in depth look at hitting things with Torpedoes and Dive Bombers:
https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/140363-how-to-aim-cv-bomber-and-corps-accordingly/?do=findComment&comment=3618162

[Tanya]

not gonna add anything but may god bless your soul playing that carrier line as your first carrier

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by Tanya:

not gonna add anything but may god bless your soul playing that carrier line as your first carrier

I did, and apart from the tier 4 with its ONE torpedo per attack run it wasn't really as bad as people say. The only consistent complaint I had was how random the bombs are - with a massive dispersion area and not enough pen to damage anything other than superstructure on BB's, the only thing they're consistent with is the disappointment you feel when you don't set any fires in spite of their huge fire chance. Granted, I got at least to tier 8 prior to the release of the European DD line, so it's probably way more painful now.

[Superczar]

The Tier VI Brit CV underperforms in Operations I will say that, compared to the IJN/German ones - its not bad per se... just doesn't bring the oompf that you can get out of the other 2 nations...

[Briton]

I successfully raided an enemy carrier with a dive bomber, but it seems that they were not hurt so much.

[Briton]

Can I control more than 1 aeroplane squadrons at the same time?

[Loyalist]

I SUGGEST YOU NOT TO PLAY ENGLISH CARRIERS, THEY ARE THE WEAKEST, I SUGGEST USA FOR BEGINNERS AND IJN AND GERMANY FOR AVERAGE/GOOD PPLAYERS

[Briton]

Originally posted by Puppet Master:

I SUGGEST YOU NOT TO PLAY ENGLISH CARRIERS, THEY ARE THE WEAKEST, I SUGGEST USA FOR BEGINNERS AND IJN AND GERMANY FOR AVERAGE/GOOD PPLAYERS

I will never betray British Empire and join the Evil Germany!

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Briton:

Originally posted by Puppet Master:

I SUGGEST YOU NOT TO PLAY ENGLISH CARRIERS, THEY ARE THE WEAKEST, I SUGGEST USA FOR BEGINNERS AND IJN AND GERMANY FOR AVERAGE/GOOD PPLAYERS

I will never betray British Empire and join the Evil Germany!

Hmm.. I'm pretty sure you're a troll at this point, but also the higher tiers of British carriers are better. Audacious is stronger than any of the others save MVR at T10

[Briton]

I begin to know how to hit enemy warships by torpedoes. Airplane's torpedo is not as destructive as warship's.