get an oyo and learn how to TB.

we need to have a serious conversation about bomber management and fighters.

if you see me playing  my main, tt, or paleo, let me know and we can go ss killing together, lol. 

I too have enjoyed using the Oyodo as an ASW ship.

I've thought about writing a guide for the task as you can configure the Oyodo
several different ways to do the task(s)

For crew,  Sonar Op, DP gunners, TB pilots.

You configure the HH in R slots or T slots, your choice as there are advantages and disadvantages.       DP guns in the remaining slot.    DP gunners can do AA or fire at damaged surfaced sub depending on how you configure ship.

Various configurations:

ASW/SCT    TBs and a few SCT planes
ASW/AIR interdiction   TBS and a few fighters.   Your choice...locals or fighters
ASW/AA   All TBs and do AA
Pure ASW    All TBs, HH in T slots and Heavy guns in R slot. 

You launch flites of 3 TBs to attack subs.   Best time is when your teams subs are fighting it out as the freindly sub sonar will light them up.

The enemy sub may crash dive and you may miss but even if this happens, you still cause problems for the sub.  Damage due to pressure and his movement drops to zero...using precious air.

If subs are all sunk or you can't see them...TB enemy ships.  

Like the original Oyodo, you won't be able to duke it out with many enemy surface ships.
And since firepower is somewhat limited, it can be tough to take on a surfaced SS 5 or 6.
But, its a fun way to ASW.

Some more tips when sailing the Oyodo.

Keep your speed below 25knts when searching for subs.

Only use OH to get out off danger. When OH is used sonar needs recovery time.

Time your HH, Oyodo only have 4 launchers it can shoot at once.

Stay close to the BB line but give the BB´s room to do there fighting.

Check for enemy Fps before you lauch your Tbs.

Lower your Tbs hight as soon you dropped off your torpdo's to keep them save from enemy AA, it also make them land faster on your ship when they are at zero attitude.

To blind torpbomb a submarine keep in mind that most Submarine Cpts dont change course when they dived, I use my mouse pointer to track the submarine when it dives.

When your Tbs sudenly seems to lose AAW resistens replace your sonarman on a other support slot. ( this is a bug, much more notible when using a IJN Tb Submarine )

3 Tbs to sink a white bar submarine.

4 Tbs to sink a 1 gold bar submarine.

5 or more Tbs to sink anything better.

Its interesting to note that the original Oyodo idea by the IJN was a failure.   It was designed to be a scout ship for submarine flotillas.    It was to carry some scout planes especially designed for the ship but these planes were a miserable failure.   Supposed to be able to hold their own against enemy fighters, but the opposite was true.   Also, in the game, the Oyodo can launch 5 planes, but in reality, it could only handle 3 and not very well at that.

The idea was to vector subs to targets by using the scout planes which was fine for a non radar environment.   This was not the case as radar was used against the IJN.

So for the IJN, the Oyodo was a technical failure.   There was only one built.   There were plans to build a second one, but it was scrapped.

The Oyodo was converted to a HQ ship and saw very little action.

However, in the Navyfield game, using it for ASW comes very close to the original concept for the ship and it is fun to play  in this role.

 

Its about the only way I have real fun in NF these days.

Not all in oyo, but all in hybrids, thought you'd get a kick out of it.

http://youtu.be/II68Smu2_nM

And the best move you've ever seen with small numbers of TB's in GB.  :p

http://youtu.be/t9mcCMegGFY

A short video how I practice to blind torp submarines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDQYrhpUB0