To be honest, I have a Malta / Implacable, I'm running 5x fighters and 3x Tbers all level
100+. With the T4 fighters, I seem to do great unless I'm stacked against a 110+ USN
or KM CV. That's all that I'm really wary of, the rest of my fighters can stack up nicely if
I'm paying attention. I.e. Drag when they drag, pull out & re-engage, etc.

As for the TB's, hit the middle of the ship, with 9+ torpedoes you ought to be taking out
BB4/5/6 depending on the amount of bulge you've got.

Something no one seems to have pointed out is that since your pilots are level 72, you are
using T2 planes still, they aren't bad, they just are nearly as good as those T3 and T4
planes that you are probably getting whooped by. Once you hit lvl 75 on all your FP,
switch to the seafires and you'll be amazed at how much you'll be owning. Since you
already have 140 vets on them, you'll be ahead of the majority of other cv drivers you are
facing.

It depends what you are doing with your fighters. Even with all the tips put above, if
the opposite player is doing the same, you'll probably lose, ceteris paribus. The trick,
I suppose, is to accept the fact you have lost set-piece field battles. If it's accepted
we have the worst/second worst fighters, and if you know your FPs are not
competitive, why are you sending them into set-piece battles?

It's a waste of your capacity. There's no point trying to control the centre if you can't
win - your team may request it, but it's a losing battle. It's the job of the CVs with
the better fighters to do that. So what are the use of your fighters?

To protect capital ships from bombing, I suppose. But who really bombs nowadays?

So why do people want to control the centre? To control the flow of scouts and for
general reconaissance. Ultimately the aim is to keep the enemy line lit up while yours
is in darkness. So in theory what you should be doing is micro-ing your fighters
around the enemy fighters and putting them over the enemy BB line. Two effects
arise from this:
- Firstly that you have armed reconnaissance in force. It will
a) prevent the enemy from putting up scouts
b) might draw their focus onto AA if they don't have AA escorts (which you can bomb,
incidentally)
c) will draw back their fighters from the centre, OR will draw their fighters over your
BB. Either one achieves /at least/ a parity in reconnaissance.
- Secondly that while you will almost certainly lose planes, you will lose them
achieving some kind of useful end. If you find another CV you can put them over the
CV and it will throw him off, especially if this is a CV with worse fighters than you.

EITHER WAY you lose your planes. But at least here you do some good.

seaman dont stack, you only need one. and a seaman only gives about 2.5 maybe 3% boost. it
does help to have one though. im a pcv player soon to be cv6 and i say a seaman is
important for any cv player. especially for fighters.

i also use uk and i agree the fp are indeed a pile of slow under powered crap.

im lvl 113 crew. and even i think uk fp suck. mine are all +12 and +11 pilots bve

about 120 vetts and full experts with like 5 - 7 recruits each. my fp get masacred by all
others of the same level and i know all the little tricks.

uk fp are in desperate need of a buff in both speed and dmg to bring them on par with the
other nations fighters.

uk db's also need a buff, they are currently the worst in the game

uk tb's are ok

and one more thing, why the hell does the french pcv still have the ability to launch 12
planes while every other pcv can only launch 11. only cv6 should be able to launch 12.

another nice little tip for you to try, lower the altitude of your fp slightly so they
have to raise to engauge. this ass a bit of a bonus to when i go fp.

also hold down your lower altitude key while in combat and keep tapping the mouse to drag
and release fp's like click 2-3 times to break off then let them fight as they start to
fight break them off again and rinse repeat.

i use this trick to clean up high level locals.

another neat trick is to use uk bb4 and bb5 aaw. simply fly your planes at water level
around these ship types and watch their aaw tear up enemy planes. it doesnt always work.
circle of death can also work in your favour too. as once in this cricle you will notice
your planes dont get shot down and neither does your enemies untill some one breaks away.
this allows you to scout for a while with out much trouble. you will eventually loose
your planes though.

Three seaman? Really? I didn't think it was cumulative? I know it is with medics till the cap.

UK fighter need to be dragged. If you see the enemy FT run the other way and the
back shooting does ok. UK are really weak under level 100. Do ok after 100.

Oh and seamen help a lot I run 3 seamen on my cv.

Pilots.

77,Barracuda,Mark XV Torps.

Make sure you REPLACE the Swordfish with the Barracuda's,they won't upgrade on
their own.

When you say, reach lvl 77, do you mean the pilots or the bridge officer? Because I
already have lvl 77+ torp and dive bombers. My highest bridge officer happens to be
my lvl 73 on the CV line, my 66 on the BB line, and my 42 on whatever since I just
use him to lvl lower crew up a bit here and there.

300 Vets and 110-120 experts??

I doubt that u can have 300Vet @ 9x lv^^. that pass the 40% cap of your crew i
believe...
My 120 Fighter have 6xx crews(depends on when u change class) which imply that
300 vet is over the cap atm. Hence, no matter when you change your pilot, u
shouldnt able to have 300... (if u really got 300 in any method, that would really
ownage^^).