I feel like pointing out the elephant in the room, but are heavy guns even worth getting?
Torps are cheap and can be fielded en-masse on cheap DDs and subs. Once you clear screens with your cruisers, the torps will easily make capitals go pop. Light cruiser batteries also do a good job at chipping down BCs/BBs for how cheap they are.
I feel like CAs could have a niche if they were fast enough to dodge torps (forcing you to counter them with heavy guns), but BCs are faster (a 1944 BC can go 41 knots, a 1944 CA with similar loadout goes about 37 KN).
Then theres the fundamental problem that you can easily sink a fleet with maxed out AA just by assigning 500 tac bombers to a sea zone due to how broken naval strikes are, so its really only useful if you -need- to do an amphibious invasion...
As far as i can tell, AA in naval combat works properly because of the fleet bonus, if you have a massive amount of AA, you can negate carrier wings. But the 20% fleet AA is ignored in naval strikes as only the target ship shoots back and the rest of the fleet sits around doing nothing. The same fleet can take little to no damage in a naval combat vs planes, but in a naval strike you will start losing ships easily and getting 50%+ damage done to capitals.
Torps are cheap and can be fielded en-masse on cheap DDs and subs. Once you clear screens with your cruisers, the torps will easily make capitals go pop. Light cruiser batteries also do a good job at chipping down BCs/BBs for how cheap they are.
I feel like CAs could have a niche if they were fast enough to dodge torps (forcing you to counter them with heavy guns), but BCs are faster (a 1944 BC can go 41 knots, a 1944 CA with similar loadout goes about 37 KN).
Then theres the fundamental problem that you can easily sink a fleet with maxed out AA just by assigning 500 tac bombers to a sea zone due to how broken naval strikes are, so its really only useful if you -need- to do an amphibious invasion...
As far as i can tell, AA in naval combat works properly because of the fleet bonus, if you have a massive amount of AA, you can negate carrier wings. But the 20% fleet AA is ignored in naval strikes as only the target ship shoots back and the rest of the fleet sits around doing nothing. The same fleet can take little to no damage in a naval combat vs planes, but in a naval strike you will start losing ships easily and getting 50%+ damage done to capitals.
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