Do vanilla ship compositions still work for WIF... I've played a little bit and aside from one game where i had a decisive victory against the Japanese, I'm a bit curious if BB's mixing with CV's is a good idea for this mod.
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Not really, but it's more about the fleets sizes, from 12 or more ships the stack penalty it's huge (-75%). So smaller fleets (6-9 ships) work better. After, the composition it's more about putting more firepower in smaller fleets (2BBs-1 CVL-3CL-Art or 3CVs-3 CL-Art) for example. Generally speaking I don't mix BB's with CV's. As the repairing times are huge (due to longer construction times) the "decisive battles" and their damages must be avoided but sometimes a smaller fleet can achieve miracles against a huge 'enemy' stack.
its true what you say about fleets though.
in my games as the US (as germany i just spam uboats and cruizergs lol) i always try to go with the CTF, that is, 4-5 carries, same number of escort carriers (CVL for you guys who dont get it), 5 light cruisers, and the rest destroyers.
against japan's navy, i usually just get 1 stack of 18 ships to go kick off the japanese's fleet activity. they will gladly send 10 carriers accompanied by 20 various other ships and get ridiculously low attack stats like 2 or 3 percent defense or attack, while my ships enjoy 60ish percent. needless to say this causes incredible loss rates for the japs.
but definitely follow lascars advice. 6 to 9 ships with the appropiate number of escorts should do it.
if youre like me, try to make small fleets for specific purposes: 2 carriers, 2 escort carriers, 2 light cruisers, and 3 destroyers for destroying surface vessels. even if you encounter japanese superstacks you can damage a ton of them before you even take some damage.
in my games as the US (as germany i just spam uboats and cruizergs lol) i always try to go with the CTF, that is, 4-5 carries, same number of escort carriers (CVL for you guys who dont get it), 5 light cruisers, and the rest destroyers.
against japan's navy, i usually just get 1 stack of 18 ships to go kick off the japanese's fleet activity. they will gladly send 10 carriers accompanied by 20 various other ships and get ridiculously low attack stats like 2 or 3 percent defense or attack, while my ships enjoy 60ish percent. needless to say this causes incredible loss rates for the japs.
but definitely follow lascars advice. 6 to 9 ships with the appropiate number of escorts should do it.
if youre like me, try to make small fleets for specific purposes: 2 carriers, 2 escort carriers, 2 light cruisers, and 3 destroyers for destroying surface vessels. even if you encounter japanese superstacks you can damage a ton of them before you even take some damage.
As the Japanese, it seems anything from 3 to 4 carriers in a stack will wipe out all resistance send out to you. But I found the only realy way to destroy America's navby is by luring their fleets to a locations which you are fighting for, discover their location in port, keep them there by using your fleet and then bombard the shit out of the harbour with your carriers and (naval) bombers.