![]() In a Saipan I would have been dead.īut speaking of Implacable let's talk about Saipan's main gimmick, she has trades a quantity of planes for a quality. I've survived have both CVs try to Alpha strike me twice when one is a tear ten and taken minimal damage in Implacable. This wouldn't be such a big point to harp on, but her nearest tech tree analogue (Implacable) has great AA defenses and an armored flight deck. And let's just not talk about what happens when a surface ship gets in range. I haven't Alpha striked a Saipan solo but I've done in two CV games and see it happen in single CV games before. She's entirely dependent on fighters for defense, but if something happens to them you're screwed. Not only does she have an unarmored flight deck, but she also has bad torpedo defenses (a whopping six percent) and CVs don't care about your belt. Saipan is one of the few carriers that has to be worried about being Alpha striked by same tier CVs. You'd better hope there isn't a CV in your game. Her unarmored flight deck and compete lack of any long range AA (and poor mid range for a CV) make her carrier bait. Saipan is still the least durable tier 8 CV and this doens't really pair well with her bad AA. Now for the bad and there is a lot of bad. ![]() She also moves at 33 knts, which is above average for a CV of this tier but is matched by Lexington and has a good belt. Thanks to the way CV hp is calculated, Saipan mercifully "only" lags 10k behind Lex and has 5k more than her half sister Baltimore despite being lighter than the latter. ![]() Suppose I should give a bit more of a detailed explanation of my opinions on her (I really should have done this in second post and will be doing so for the rest of these). Opponent was a Lex, likely as weak, or at least equal to, myself. Not a particularly bad game, but since I was just feeling it out, not terribly aggressive with it either.Good team, and a win. ![]()
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