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an oldy from the old forums 

General Rule #1:

It's all about the pilots.  The CV is just the launching platform, that gets better at each level. Maximize your pilots' ability, elite, boosted, vets, everything!

General Rule #2:

You are a support ship with attack capability.  Your primary mission is to support your team. That means being in communication with your other CVs and the BBs you have been assigned to cover, south or north. 

General Rule #3:

Just because you have low level pilots doesn't mean you can't be an effective CV.  Use Locals for your first fighters, run them out of gas and send more of them until you don't have any more.  Protect your BBs is your primary responsibility. For your bombers, they'll get chewed up, but you can still launch torps.  Do it until you run out of bombers. 

General Rule #4:

Yes, you are the responsible for ensuring vision for your BBs. Even though they have scouts, they are dumb and don't know how to use them.  You have to keep your fighters and bombers over enemy ships until they run out of gas.

General Rule #5:

It's just a game. Have fun and don't let anyone tell you what to do.

Many thanks for the input guys,

I will update the OP in due time.
My interpretation of it that is :)

krgd.

Arc 

While you are at it, choose a nation:

Here are just some general NF knowledge:

If you want good fighter with torpedo bomber as support: choose USN

If you want good fighter with dive bomber as support: choose KM

If you want to use mainly dive bomber and some fighter for scouting: choose MN

If you want to use mainly torpedo bomber and some fighter for scouting: choose RM

If you want to use both types of bombers and some fighter for scouting: choose IJN

If you want to be a dive bomber whore: choose SN 

If you want to be a torpedo bomber whore: choose RN 

You need to make sure of "Air Supremacy", regardness of being tbw/dbw or fpw.

"Air Supremacy" is an area effect. For example, if you are in the south, you can't maintain safty of the North.

Without Air Supremacy, you cannot scout, you cannot bomb and BB need to avoid non-stopping air attack.

Lower tier fighter maintain "Air Supremacy" by draging higher tier fighter away, using fewer fighter.

dying of fighter give you money too, not just to kill. winning the game give you more exp.

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Staying way back at the map reduce your influence to the enemy.

If you are afraid of the enemy SS, you should consider using sonar and HH. This pain will come again in habour assault.

If you are constantly being camp by enemy fighters in great battle, you should  bring fewer db/tb in your next game. Or, you should check enemy carrier location during starting count down.

You invest a lot of time in your posts, don't you, Quenirland?

Sigh...

Just to avoid any urban myths developing from what you posted, one nation's cv can only hold and launch the same nation's planes.

You can put other nations' pilots on your cv, but the only thing they'll get is exp. They aren't useful in any other way.