The trick to getting a clear sky

[AnatolyDyatlovDidNothing]

Be unlucky enough to get a 5v5 with T9 carriers in a T10 cruiser of your choice, go off by yourself and find out the enemy CV does not know that premium DFAA cooldown is 2 minutes.

 

Feast.

 

 

And than realize you didn't have the campaign mission for it selected.

 

 

RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DoctorMcDerp]

I can hear the AA gunners from here...

Dakka dakka dakka dakka...

[klymar8]

 Lucky guy I have not been able to get one in my Atlanta for almost a year now .

[Admiral_Thrawn_1]

Go off alone in an AA spec Bismarck will do the trick lol they can't resist that big of a target and will send wave after wave of planes 

[AnatolyDyatlovDidNothing]

Except a Bismarck would have died regardless here with what i was doing. 

[Admiral_Thrawn_1]

Just now, grizzly95 said:

Except a Bismarck would have died regardless here with what i was doing. 

Took Bismarck out recently with full secondary spec and still downed 29 planes so I would imagine full AA spec would do the trick, you also want the steering Mod so you can turn faster to avoid any torps that do get dropped, 

its just so often a tempting target for CVs that they will send planes after it because so often you will have a clueless player with no AA equipment or skills in a Bismarck making it a potential easy kill for a CV.

[Darthvader_9]

got 28 and 29 in my Bis a few times, so then AA spec'ed it and poop, no cv's.

so back to secondary spec

[AnatolyDyatlovDidNothing]

41 minutes ago, Admiral_Thrawn_1 said:

Took Bismarck out recently with full secondary spec and still downed 29 planes so I would imagine full AA spec would do the trick, you also want the steering Mod so you can turn faster to avoid any torps that do get dropped, 

its just so often a tempting target for CVs that they will send planes after it because so often you will have a clueless player with no AA equipment or skills in a Bismarck making it a potential easy kill for a CV.

 

All of those planes came in 3 waves of all strike aircraft when i was completely by myself (Tier 9 planes too, not stock). The only reason i did as good as i did was DFAA. If i had had hydro i would have been dead because he was fairly competent with actually conducting his strikes, if not quite so well in understanding why i was murdering almost all of his planes on every strike. And even than i only got his TBs. 

 

[Gandariel]

Agree clear sky is pretty super rare these days. Was days when i shoot 60 planes with cleveland. Now rarely hve more then +20 planes on any tier.

[Final_Spark]

 

[Gandariel]

7 minutes ago, Final_Spark said:

 

Exactly :D this sould be clear sky :D

[Camo68]

I got my one and only clear sky in a 2 v 2 game -  Henry & Essex vs Henry & Essex

Never even close before now

[Admiral_Thrawn_1]

Gotten "Clear Skies" in my Texas, but think problem with high tier doing it generally the CVs tend to be little smarter and hold so many planes that for them to send most of them to you to be slaughtered is harder to have happen.

[_Dracarys]

16 hours ago, grizzly95 said:

Be unlucky enough to get a 5v5 with T9 carriers in a T10 cruiser of your choice, go off by yourself and find out the enemy CV does not know that premium DFAA cooldown is 2 minutes.

 

Feast.

 

 

And than realize you didn't have the campaign mission for it selected.

 

 

RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did you go full AA build on zao? my zao struggles to shoot down any planes at all.

[Peregrinas]

I'm actually thinking about trying to see if someone wants to division a tier 8/9 CV with my Iowa/Montana(when I get it soon as I'm only 30k xp away and I'm running a bunch of xp modifiers) so I can get two more Clear Skies. I have just one Honorable Service mission left, the one for 3 Clear Skies, and I have one out of three. I don't want to remove it but it is taking up a slot for the Yamamoto campaign

 

10 minutes ago, ChineseSailBy said:

did you go full AA build on zao? my zao struggles to shoot down any planes at all.

 

Maybe. I've had a single Zao nearly destroy a complete strike wave from my Midway. It was ridiculous.

[_Dracarys]

Just now, Peregrinas said:

I'm actually thinking about trying to see if someone wants to division a tier 8/9 CV with my Iowa/Montana(when I get it soon as I'm only 30k xp away and I'm running a bunch of xp modifiers) so I can get two more Clear Skies. I have just one Honorable Service mission left, the one for 3 Clear Skies, and I have one out of three. I don't want to remove it but it is taking up a slot for the Yamamoto campaign

 

 

Maybe. I've had a single Zao nearly destroy a complete strike wave from my Midway. It was ridiculous.

i can pair up with my hakuryu. just saying.

[TangledThorns]

Flawless victory.

[Reymu]

28 minutes ago, Peregrinas said:

I'm actually thinking about trying to see if someone wants to division a tier 8/9 CV with my Iowa/Montana(when I get it soon as I'm only 30k xp away and I'm running a bunch of xp modifiers) so I can get two more Clear Skies. I have just one Honorable Service mission left, the one for 3 Clear Skies, and I have one out of three. I don't want to remove it but it is taking up a slot for the Yamamoto campaign

 

 

Maybe. I've had a single Zao nearly destroy a complete strike wave from my Midway. It was ridiculous.

Taiho may be wiser since T9 planes are weaker, but CS depends on CV sending planes same direction repeatedly. My experience is maybe 25% of CV captains t7+ are that stupid, as even the potatoes change targets a lot.

 

Never seen an AA spec Zao, but would make sense since they have a lot of Bofors.

[Dodgy_Cookies]

clear sky is much easier in ranked. especially this season at T6.

[Peregrinas]

32 minutes ago, ChineseSailBy said:

i can pair up with my hakuryu. just saying.

 

I'd rather not try to get a Clear Sky against T10 aircraft, let alone needing to shoot down probably 80+ in a tier 10 game, but thanks anyways 

 

3 minutes ago, Reymu said:

Taiho may be wiser since T9 planes are weaker, but CS depends on CV sending planes same direction repeatedly. My experience is maybe 25% of CV captains t7+ are that stupid, as even the potatoes change targets a lot.

 

Never seen an AA spec Zao, but would make sense since they have a lot of Bofors.

 

T9 aircraft are weaker? Huh, never really looked into that. I've already gotten one CS, and I almost had another one before that, but the Shokaku recalled all of his aircraft and didn't launch anymore as he attempted to ram me in the late game (they were winning by a lot so he really had nothing more to lose, aside from giving me CS which he was smart enough to stop me from getting; I had somewhere between 50-60 aircraft shot down that game). I haven't had that many games with CVs, but the issue is more of finding a game with CVs, hence why divisioning with one should make it easier.

[Final_Spark]

54 minutes ago, Peregrinas said:

I'm actually thinking about trying to see if someone wants to division a tier 8/9 CV with my Iowa/Montana(when I get it soon as I'm only 30k xp away and I'm running a bunch of xp modifiers) so I can get two more Clear Skies. I have just one Honorable Service mission left, the one for 3 Clear Skies, and I have one out of three. I don't want to remove it but it is taking up a slot for the Yamamoto campaign.

Remember that in 11 days mission 2 will unlock and with that comes a "Get 2 Clear Sky medals" task. Tier 8+, naturally.

[AnatolyDyatlovDidNothing]

3 hours ago, ChineseSailBy said:

did you go full AA build on zao? my zao struggles to shoot down any planes at all.

AFT + BFT + AA Range mod only. Thats my bog standard set of choices on all of my cruiser except for Henri, where i did not have enough captain points leftover to do so. 

[Reymu]

2 hours ago, Peregrinas said:

 

T9 aircraft are weaker? Huh, never really looked into that. I've already gotten one CS, and I almost had another one before that, but the Shokaku recalled all of his aircraft and didn't launch anymore as he attempted to ram me in the late game (they were winning by a lot so he really had nothing more to lose, aside from giving me CS which he was smart enough to stop me from getting; I had somewhere between 50-60 aircraft shot down that game). I haven't had that many games with CVs, but the issue is more of finding a game with CVs, hence why divisioning with one should make it easier.

Difference between T9 and T10 aircraft is about 15-20% HP, if include the bomber HP buff module.

 

CS seems to require 61 planes minimum at high tiers. Just got one in my MO when an Enterprise took special interest in me. Took 5 waves from his 2 TB and 2 DB to sink me, as I was able to mitigate his torps against my TDS and (being a wimp that brought premium consumables) survived long enough to finish him before I went down.

[Peregrinas]

Just now, Reymu said:

Difference between T9 and T10 aircraft is about 15-20% HP, if include the bomber HP buff module.

 

CS seems to require 61 planes minimum at high tiers. Just got one in my MO when an Enterprise took special interest in me. Took 5 waves from his 2 TB and 2 DB to sink me, as I was able to mitigate his torps against my TDS and (being a wimp that brought premium consumables) survived long enough to finish him before I went down.

 

Oh you were talking about the difference between T9 and T10; I thought you were talking about the difference between T9 and T8. So I guess it's clear that against a T8 CV I will have the best chance then.