Why did they give fighters to BB?

[Biscuit]

Now it can take potshots at my carrier and shoot all my planes. Yay.






I know this is not a new addition. Just didn't notice it on many and even then I assumed it was some premium consumable.

[Guara Ookami]

you really are complaining for something that has some huge DELAY on their action ??? Fighter consumables are useless if the CV decides to chaindrop you then someone else right after, if you are getting them to lock on you, you are doing something extremly wrong.
Most people rate fighters the worst consumable (me included) in the game because they dont really scout nor shoot planes effectivly, they were way better when they had their RTS application of giving panic attacks over the striking aircraft.

[Biscuit]

What am I doing wrong? Are you saying I should wait for another CV to make a drop first? There have never been more than one in the ranked games I played. What else am I supposed to do but make a beeline for the ship? Also, what did you mean by delay?

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by Biscuit:

what did you mean by delay?

Catapult fighters won't attack you for at least 5s after you enter their patrol radius. This is enough time to do a drop and get out.

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Originally posted by Biscuit:

what did you mean by delay?

Catapult fighters won't attack you for at least 5s after you enter their patrol radius. This is enough time to do a drop and get out.

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[Firewalk]

Catapult Fighters need a serious buff to their response time.

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[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

You probably didn't notice it until recently because the fighters are so abjectly useless that the vast majority of players will swap them out for a Spotter Plane if the option is there.

[dakin1]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

You probably didn't notice it until recently because the fighters are so abjectly useless that the vast majority of players will swap them out for a Spotter Plane if the option is there.

This. In a BB very often the extra range from the spotter plane is MUCH more useful than fighters that may shoot down a couple of planes after the CV has already attacked you.

[Biscuit]

what should I do when BBs group together and use their fighters at once? Say there are 2 of them moving side by side and both have planes. There's also a DD in front of them that I have to cross or get shot by the BB's priority sector. On the other side of the map there is a cruiser and another DD together and one of them is in the smoke. Should I just sit and do nothing when something like that happens?

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by Biscuit:

what should I do when BBs group together and use their fighters at once? Say there are 2 of them moving side by side and both have planes. There's also a DD in front of them that I have to cross or get shot by the BB's priority sector. On the other side of the map there is a cruiser and another DD together and one of them is in the smoke. Should I just sit and do nothing when something like that happens?

What do you do? why, you suck it up buttercup.

[Biscuit]

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[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Biscuit:

what should I do when BBs group together and use their fighters at once? Say there are 2 of them moving side by side and both have planes. There's also a DD in front of them that I have to cross or get shot by the BB's priority sector. On the other side of the map there is a cruiser and another DD together and one of them is in the smoke. Should I just sit and do nothing when something like that happens?

Sometimes teams will sit together really well and make it almost impossible to get through the AA. Most of the time though you will see a ship or two alone, these are the ones to go for.

Even if you cant get close enough to hit you can do other cool stuff, like revealing that HE spamming cruiser that can be 1 shot by your BB's. With cruisers and BB you should be able to spot them from just outside there AA range, just gotta stay there and play spotter while the cruiser panics that hes detected haha

Lots of DD's have terrible AA as well so you can get into there AA range and spot them, as long as you stay out of the larger ships AA behind them. Sometimes if a DD has really weak AA i will just circle above him while the team sorts it out. If they got good AA then il try and get my hits in because its gonna be a shorter spotted window.

Sometimes you dont actually have to be causing damage in a CV to be really helping your team out :)

[Banzai]

Its worth noting that fighters arent completely useless if you are in a ship with weak AA. They generally will stop them (enemy cvs) from getting multiple strikes on you.