Once you've won this decisive battle, you should change these settings back. Put your strike force on 'Always Engage', 'Split Off: Disabled' and 'Never Repair' (or Low Repair Priority) to prevent your ships from fleeing during this decisive battle this setting also ensures your fleet chasing down the enemy fleet after beating them. You'll want to win this decisive battle at all costs. Once one side gains the upper hand, they will 'snowball' into destroying almost all enemy ships, typically immediately followed by another battle that cleans up the remains. Provides Shore Bombardment, which debuffs enemy troops.Ī battle between 2 large fleets ends up with 1 big winner, and 1 big loser. Hold: Stand still in their current location.Naval Invasion Support: Escorts convoys carrying troops.Minesweeping: Removes mines, removing their effect.Minelaying: Lays mines, giving you extra naval superiority, and increases the chance of enemy ships randomly sinking, and reduces enemy ship speed by up to 80% (!).Convoy Escort: Protects your convoys against enemy ships.Typically performed by submarines, but any ship can be used for this, even your strike fleet. Convoy Raiding: Attacks enemy convoys.This also passively projects naval superiority on sea zones more on that later. Then they will attack that fleet (or not, depending on engagement rules). Strike force: Your ships stay in the harbor, waiting until an enemy fleet is found.Once you spotted the enemy, you can immediately fight them, or keep observing them from a distance, depending on engagement rules for that taskforce. Both surface ships and submarines can be spotted. Patrol: Actively search the sea for enemy ships (spotting).If you are low on fuel, try exercising submarines, as these use very little fuel. ![]() In addition, it will also grant a lot of navy XP. Naval Exercises: this trains your taskforce, leveling up your ships, which increases their damage just like army training does.I can research Essex class in about a month though. To top it all off I have nearly 500 naval XP and no 1940 designs to use it on. I don't believe Japan has lost any battleships or carriers but I also don't think they have many screens left. I have all eight of my carriers remaining, seven older battleships, ten heavy cruisers and a ton of screens but mostly level 1 starting ships. Halsey with Seventh Fleet (my weakest) has not run into anything between Alaska and Hawaii, so I'll probably send all my remaining navy to Pearl to reorganize. ![]() ![]() However while I was retreating the damaged ships of Third Fleet (which was all of them) back to Pearl Harbor they were caught by Yamamoto, who had apparently replenished all his carrier wings long before i did and I lost all my most powerful battleships and heavy cruisers.Īdmiral King is in the Mandates swatting smaller Japanese task groups with Fifth Fleet but he's probably next in Yamomoto's sights. No land based air was involved that i noticed, The IJN carriers lost all their planes before I eventually lost all mine. The first battles were promising, I quickly sank a BC, and my first battle with the main Japanese fleet I sank 77 destroyers and a bushel of light cruisers while losing not nearly as many screens and one BB. I have several even numbered fleets (Second, Fourth etc.) each with one old CL and nine old DDs, and six Sub Divisions with 13 boats each.Ī month into the Pacific war, and it has not gone well. Halsey has Seventh Fleet with Yorktown, Ranger, 3 BBs, 5 CAs and half lvl 1 and 2 screens. King has Fifth Fleet with two Lexingtons, 4 BBs, 5 CAs and mostly lvl 2 screens. My 8 strongest battleships, Colorado and Mississippi classesġ8 CL2s and 36 DDs, mostly DD2s with a few farragut DD1s. My main fleet (Third Fleet, under Nimits) was: Click to expand.Playing USA and fighting my first real naval war.
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