Vdub is not one to listen to for CV advice.

lol easy with all these fighter only CVs! I know that you guys know a heck of a lot more
than I do, but at this point I'm inclined to agree with what Vdub said about all fighter
or all bomber ships. All bombers are pretty helpless as they go down in flames under T4
guns. At lower levels, the bombers are worth more than the fighters, but what happens when
they get higher level with no fighters??? But ALL fighters isn't really the best course of
action either. What happens if you really need to reach out and hit something?

Hey I have 8 usn bombers :P

You just need bombers, more and more bombers, 8 is best, so you can throw them at
mine and Bongs fighters in huge waves and run them out of ammo before bombing us
or our BB charges all to hell!!!

The magic # for bombers is 3.... 3 or 6 is best.

Best way to train it is to powerlevel the BO up to cv1, powerlevel the fighters up to
higher than that, really as high as you want with the fighters but learn the CV1s. Its
good to learn on a cv1, youll get the hang of cvs quickly.

A little advice on the crew:

Lose the medic, he is obsolete as you cant lose sailors (or at least vets) from getting
planes shot down. Maybe replace with seaman?
Drop 2 bombers, get 2 fighters (please trust me on this, i went 4/4 and im regretting
it at essex level, and will even more on lexi and tico).
Boost your fighters if you can, then V/E them.

T1s and 2s were recently given a massive buff with increased fuel, site range, and
defense. There is no longer a reason to use Locals outside of self protection.

I came to the conclusion that Ewood posted on my own using my Yorktown with T2s. The only
thing that I did slightly differently was that I'm using a 50/50 mix of fighters and
bombers for 2 reasons. First, I need to level them all and I don't want to hurt my future
operations. Second, because as noted above, I need to learn how to control them!

Some wonderful points have been made here by veteran players. However, being in the middle
of a grind from L55 to L70, I do have some recent experience of a new CV driver.

1) Leveling up to a CV3 then suddenly jumping into a L75 CV for the first time is a
terrible idea. You will end up on the wrong side of auto-balance and will be matched
against CVs that have 20 levels of experence handling their planes. When you fail (happens
to all) you'll get treated terribly and could get a bad reputation. I got yelled at a lot
in the beginning "noob" but all I did was point at my ship and T1s and call them a noob
back for expecting the unrealistic. That shut down quite a few people.

2) You miss out on the Blitz experience. Over there if you get a chance to learn and make
mistakes that you can't in GB due to lesser competition. Also, because of all the hobbit
map you get CL and DD appearing out of nowhere. It forces you to learn how to manuver your
ship and planes at the same time.

3) I've seen some comments about locals and leveling straight to the T3s. I also saw some
comments about them being useless. Have been tutored by some of the best they were 100%
right by saying that you can't start that way, you need to learn how to use the planes.
The only thing locals are good for is keeping spotted on your deck in case of attack or
constantly hovering as a CAP over your own head. I tried to make them work and I found
that some T3s were eating the locals right over me! I also found that your GB2 teammates
will go insane at you for having your own CAP and not helping them. Guess what? Locals
have such a short range you can't really get at scouts or provide a CAP for BB6s, unless
you have a pile of fighter pilots. All that does is prevent you from leveling your
bombers. Trust me, I tried them every way I could and locals just don't cut it for a new
person leveling. They just teach you tactics that aren't practical for your future.

4) I saw a suggestion to get elites and others saying don't. For V2 and other skilled
drivers, they could get away with that. They know what they are doing. I got the elite
fighters. My expereince is that they are performing about 15-20 levels higher than a bunch
of other screwed up fighters. V2 certainly knows EXACTLY how to train them so he didn't
need to buy elites. For new people, the elites game me a little extra edge, so when I make
a small mistake, they cover it... a little! For me, the $6 has paid off nicely. The other
thing I did was I paid a few credits to buy a L80s fighter and stick him on my crew. This
made leveling up a bit easier as it was one less to deal with. Also, it put a "clutch" guy
on my team. When I know that I really need my A team, I got him. Sometimes, it helps a
little.

5) I employed my T1/2s EXACTLY like Ewood said and they have done some good. I've found
that I'm providing some vision (just some, not great, but enough so I'm not yelled at) and
I've found that even when I'm not beating enemy T3s, I'm getting my bombers through enemy
fighter cover and AA to get hits in. My elite L62s and my L85 in T2s actually can hold off
L75-L80 fighters in T3s. When fighting over my head, the AAW and AA weakens them and my
fighters finish. Over the enemy side I lose sometimes, but I don't care as I'm carrying 30
of them and my bombers are getting through.

6) Final thing is the crap about just reading the tactics section. Bull. If you don't do
it and practice it, you will fail. It took me a quite a bit of trial and error to get down
the timing for launching, what to launch, when and where to launch, not to mention how to
use them and attacking! Go to the practice mission and beat down the BBs there.

Tch, Never used locals other than for a quick test of the IJN ones for a game or so,
but hey, what do I know...

If you use at-lvl T1/2's and go fighter to fighter against T3/4's deliberately and it's
you're first CV line, you're a moron and will get owned.

Second time leveling a CV, you know a few tricks and can get away with it.

If you must use a CV1-2 in a GB2, then try the following;
First time using a CV, use more bombers than fighters, use your fighters to kill (low-
lvl) scouts (if using T1's) as some bombers are faster than your scouts and generally
use your fighters to distract the higher level CV as you try and sneak some bombers
onto the flag's deck.

If you have T2 fighters, extend your targets to bombers and scouts and, again, for
distraction against higher level CV's fighters whilst you try and bomb the flag.

It's amazing how many people think that because they have high level fighters or
elites that they are good whilst having NFI of what to do with them...

i actually agree with juandelacruz

i just knew how to proplerly play with CVs and i was taking on PCVs in my CV3

and my crew was REALLY crap as well


if you know how to play a CV properly, and have a decent crew, you will be
something to fear on the battlefield