Help with the Lexington

[MaxVladimus]

This huge waste of steel with a horrible concealment is just giving defeats to me! Most of my XP is coming from defeats. I`m only getting the worst and dumbest players. Yesterday it was 6 defeats to win my first battle and 4 defeats in a row. My Win rate is now just 23%. Also I`m tired of other Lexington with strike build going directly to attack me.

And its AA Defensive Fire is USELESS! Everytime that I use it, I`m hit anyway. Once I got 4 fires while using the Defensive Fire. This force me to keep my fighters close to my carrier and I leave my teammates on their own.

I don`t know what to do or if I`m playing right, it`s so hard to win just the first battle.

[Tedster_]

just wait until the loadouts are changed.

[Lord_Zath]

1.  Run strike.

2.  Div up with two friends who bring AA ships.

3.  Destroy enemy DDs and lonely BBs.

4.  ???

5.  Profit.

[Speedstang]

16 minutes ago, MaxVladimus said:

This huge waste of steel with a horrible concealment is just giving defeats to me! Most of my XP is coming from defeats. I`m only getting the worst and dumbest players. Yesterday it was 6 defeats to win my first battle and 4 defeats in a row. My Win rate is now just 23%. Also I`m tired of other Lexington with strike build going directly to attack me.

And its AA Defensive Fire is USELESS! Everytime that I use it, I`m hit anyway. Once I got 4 fires while using the Defensive Fire. This force me to keep my fighters close to my carrier and I leave my teammates on their own.

I don`t know what to do or if I`m playing right, it`s so hard to win just the first battle.

I feel your pain, that ship has made me rage more than any other. Stop using it, wait a bit. Wargaming announced an upcoming buff to USN carriers, Lexington included. See below.

 

[MaxVladimus]

These Wargaming promises are like the ones from my local government, it`ll take a lot of months until this change. And where do you get those pictures and info? I check the website everyday and I don`t see any info. Beware with the fake news.

[Estimated_Prophet]

1 hour ago, MaxVladimus said:

These Wargaming promises are like the ones from my local government, it`ll take a lot of months until this change. And where do you get those pictures and info? I check the website everyday and I don`t see any info. Beware with the fake news.

 

A recent thread.

 

Probably still won't bother with high tier CVs again, even after the change. No point to doing so when I can't get a handle on defending against Strafe, and dealing with the lunatic AA so many people cry about and say it cant stop air attacks.

[HereCreeepers]

On 11/9/2017 at 6:53 PM, Tedster_ said:

just wait until the loadouts are changed.

 

On 11/9/2017 at 7:00 PM, Speedstang said:

I feel your pain, that ship has made me rage more than any other. Stop using it, wait a bit. Wargaming announced an upcoming buff to USN carriers, Lexington included. See below.

Except this will only make it worse. It will basically be stock Lexington (which is already horribly outclassed by the Shokaku in every way) with another squadron of planes that are completely reliant on RNG to do damage. At least with the specialist loadouts you get good air control (still outdone by AS Shokaku, which also have better strike power) and strike give you insanely powerful damage if you can avoid enemy fighters.

[Focke66]

I agree i dont see how having just 1 loadout and of that configuration is a buff in any way unless the way the attacks are handled is changed too

 

[Speedstang]

On 11/9/2017 at 4:30 PM, MaxVladimus said:

These Wargaming promises are like the ones from my local government, it`ll take a lot of months until this change. And where do you get those pictures and info? I check the website everyday and I don`t see any info. Beware with the fake news.

They announced it at the Let's Battle tour and posted it on the official Dev Blog.....

 

16 hours ago, HereCreeepers said:

 

Except this will only make it worse. It will basically be stock Lexington (which is already horribly outclassed by the Shokaku in every way) with another squadron of planes that are completely reliant on RNG to do damage. At least with the specialist loadouts you get good air control (still outdone by AS Shokaku, which also have better strike power) and strike give you insanely powerful damage if you can avoid enemy fighters.

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2 hours ago, Focke66 said:

I agree i dont see how having just 1 loadout and of that configuration is a buff in any way unless the way the attacks are handled is changed too

 

The specialist loadouts are incredibly terrible. Giving up all air power or all strike power makes no sense at all, you're essentially half a carrier. At the same time, 1-1-1 is just way too little for tier 8, only 3 squadrons, which is severely limiting. With 1-1-2, you will have more damage-dealing capability, and you have the extra dive bomber squadron to use as bait if needed to deal with something like an AS Shokaku. This is a buff to the 1-1-1 loadout, which for all carriers prior to Lexington was the only viable and logical loadout. For Lexington, it will finally make the loadout viable.

 

[HereCreeepers]

3 hours ago, Speedstang said:

They announced it at the Let's Battle tour and posted it on the official Dev Blog.....

 

 

The specialist loadouts are incredibly terrible. Giving up all air power or all strike power makes no sense at all, you're essentially half a carrier. At the same time, 1-1-1 is just way too little for tier 8, only 3 squadrons, which is severely limiting. With 1-1-2, you will have more damage-dealing capability, and you have the extra dive bomber squadron to use as bait if needed to deal with something like an AS Shokaku. This is a buff to the 1-1-1 loadout, which for all carriers prior to Lexington was the only viable and logical loadout. For Lexington, it will finally make the loadout viable.

 

But at least with the specialist loadouts you were good at one thing. I am not saying that they didn't suck, I am just saying that this will be no better. You will be outclassed by a 2-2-2 Shokaku in almost every way. Your fighters are worse, being unable to be in multiple parts of the map, compared to the Shokaku which can be in two places at once. It also make you unable to lock up with a squadron then strafe out while strafing the now stunned squad with your offhand plane. You also are outclassed in terms of torpedo bombers, being unable to perform cross drops, which really hurts your ability to kill maneuverable ships. It also makes any target than has a floatplane fighter up nearly impossible to attack. You do have superior dive bombers, but having dive bombers as your main source of damage is just horrible. Also baiting with a single dive bomber squadron doesn't work against any skilled player, they will just ignore it as it is just not a significant threat. The addition of AP dive bombers is a nice thing but ultimately is not that effective unless you are attacking German battleships.

[anonym_Hf93Jbjm9WjT]

On 10/11/2017 at 0:57 AM, Lord_Zath said:

1.  Run strike.

2.  Div up with two friends who bring AA ships.

3.  Destroy enemy DDs and lonely BBs.

4.  ???

5.  Profit.

Divving helps all CV players enormously, but if you are running solo, any flavour of Lexington grind can feel all too often like a hard unrewarding slog. As does the scout and prosecute dd approach, accompanied by a scout and observe enemy AA cruisers being nuked, but that requires a little luck in having a team that understands this has to be one of their priorities.