CVs can be [edited]

[Grand_Commander_LuXun]

I find it much harder to judge the lead when shooting at a CV than for other classes. Especially when CV players actually angle and try to avoid fire, it's such a pain in the [edited]to hit them. Any tips?

[Sinboto]

Pull up your reticle a bit? 

 

Aim farther ahead?

 

I mean what do you want us to say without a video......

[Personator]

Uh... I shoot at CVs just fine, so idk how to help you. And it's a pain to shoot at any ship that actually uses WASD hacks...

 

So... just learn from your mistake and compensate?

[BlazerSparta]

CVs tend to go in straight lines for extended periods, and as such, tend to be at top speed quite often. That top speed is typically quite high, equal or greater to what a same tier CA can manage.

 

CAs just don't tend to reach top speed due to the need to angle, evade, and not run into the enemy team.

 

CVs are just tryin to get out of your spotting/firing range ASAP, so they can just run away at top speed.

[The_GoDDfather]

Considering he plays a ton of tier 5, I'm assuming he's talking about Langley and Bogue. Just a thought.

[mohawkdriver]

I don't know how you can miss after the first salvo.  Adjust, fire for effect, enemy aircraft carrier sunk!  Not much simpler than that.

[WanderingGhost]

CVs tend to go in straight lines for extended periods, and as such, tend to be at top speed quite often. That top speed is typically quite high, equal or greater to what a same tier CA can manage.

 

For higher tier ones, yeah they go faster, USN till tier 6 might as well be sitting ducks.

 

And unless their running or trying to stick close to a group only CV's at top speed are the ones that don't realize you can recover your planes a bit faster at slower speeds and shave a couple seconds off getting your strike force back in the air.

 

Op, aim the same way you would at say a Cleveland, or any other ship similar in speed to whatever CV your  shooting at, load HE, AP over pens way too much, if your still missing you likely need to aim a bit lower as I don't think the CV's are quite as high as the other ships, could be wrong though. 

[Aduial]

I tend to overlead on CVs for my salvos, because they're so big and it seems like i should be leading 1 ship length to them when that's actually way too much. So all i can say is you just gotta readjust after every salvo. Also, just a tip, you should use AP on the lower tier carriers (tiers 4-5) because they are ridiculously easy to citadel. You can cit them with anything, even HE. I don't know about tier 6, because i don't encounter too many of them. But anyways, AP is always an option if they're already on fire. 

[Estimated_Prophet]

As a CV driver people who shoot HE at me all day are evil little trolls...

 

That being said; if the CV is running directly away use HE against it. That stops airstrikes, and there have been plenty of times in a tail chase when I've destroyed a chasing enemy with repeated airstrikes.

 

If you can get even a half-way decent angle on the carrier's broadside, and especially if it is already on fire, fire AP; it will sink faster. For DDs that's kind of optional. but if they get  within 5k at the latest, even they should switch to AP.

 

Why would a DD be within 5k and not shoot torps? I'm not saying he shouldn't, but gunfire can be a better bet in some cases. Plenty of frustrated DD drivers have missed with entire torp salvos launched against me, even in a Langley or Bogue... The wonders of WASD never cease to amaze... (That, or they only scored one hit...)