ORIGINAL: herwin
ORIGINAL: aciddrinker
Hehe omg super CL pwned all DD.
Unlikely in AE. The Brooklyn class CLs had about 50% more firepower than the New Orleans CAs, but only against lightly armoured targets. Against a DD TF like that, the target-rich environment would have saturated their two main directors. The reason Brooklyns do so well in stock seems to be that the game engine doesn't model how targets are actually engaged, but instead seems to treat all guns as firing at full ROF while targeting individual Japanese warships under local control. The number of hits reported on the Japanese ships is several times what would be expected under the best of circumstances. (Sorry, JWE...)
Of course I've also seen personally Boise stroll into the middle of a carrier force, get fired on by Ryujo (I was sweating bullets) and sink without so much as landing a single hit (my two CAs put 2 Type 93s into Boise in very short order). I think the RNG (Random Number Generator) has quite a bit to do with outcomes as well. You get a bad roll, bad things happen, you get a good roll...etc.
