Akura this is totally your faultSo I've been poking into World of Warships
thanks to Akura posting about stuff, did some stuff to a CV (Aircraft Carrier/Carrier Vessel) up that I went into the 6th tier (Tier VI), and then an operation (scenario mission) occurred that was precisely for that tier. The CV is only to two different countries--America, and Japan--and the Japanese one has 'more strike squadrons' but less planes per squad, while the American one has the opposite. The scenario is best played with Japanese CVs due to being a 'defense themed' mission where our people are assaulted by 5x enemy ships than our team.
I stuck with an American CV, because I followed the 'tech tree' which leads up that line.
This one game had the context of one of my teammates saying 'wow wrong ships everyone', because out of the 2 Battleships, 3 Cruisers, 2 Destroyers, and 1 Aircraft Carrier, the 'right' ships are those configured for fighting multiple enemies. Mine is detailed above--while the rest (as our 'ships' all come from 6 or so different nations), must've been either heavy-hitters or otherwise. Another teammate followed it up with 'let's hope we've got good captains then'.
Now this scenario is something I've failed in 2 times before because of lag :v because Philippine internet is
abusive quite horrible because of international prospects and internal ones, but still! I had to both protect my team from enemy aircraft, and focus my aircraft to bomb/torpedo attack incoming AI ships.
To cut the story short, I ended the mission with all objectives BUT ONE completed, 53+ enemy aircraft kills (because strafing is an option only done with the Alt key, at tiers VI+), only a full fighter wing and a broken dive bomber wing alive. Out of 5 objectives (which each represents 1 star in the operation out of 5 stars), the only one we missed is 'kill all enemy ships before the main attack wave'. We apparently fulfilled the objectives: 'defend the perimeter and let no enemy ship cross this line; ensure that NONE OF ANY allied fortresses/moored or repair ships die; destroy the enemy main carrier; at least 3 team ships should survive'.
Noting for posterity that the tier VI American carrier...only has 1 squadron of fighters, torpedo bombers, and dive bombers each, with replacements not even numbering a full squadron for each strike squadron. They have 6 planes per squadron versus the Japanese 4 planes per squadron (yet somehow the fighters and otherwise are all matched to each plane, like if a Japanese fighter squad vs an American squad fight--it all purely depends on who gets the first kill [other than AA fire in the surroundings and other factors]); in comparison, a Japanese Carrier can field multiple squadrons at the same tier at the moment. So this backs the comment above.
Our team was very relieved at the end. (Mainly I blame our destroyer captain because he was awesome with torpedo volleys). Because we scored 4/5 stars, I gained a Japanese Captain with 10 skill points in them. This is a super award! :3
Also got a mod from the forum that makes every captain female, alongside getting female professional voiceovers for literally everything in-game and it is amazing and awesome.