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There should be some mission or guide how to aim aa, but i stay on mine: make it auto or half-auto

I"m getting better at AAing with flak myself. Just learned recently that planes fly at angles 31-33 of my guns, until they are past the orange angle line.

Just a quick note (i use aiming for my AA) but wouldn't finder be better for AA since it will be able to see airplanes farther out? Or does finder only work for torpedos...

im using aimer ;) but it is very difficult and almost impossible to shot plane... at bigger battles with great amount of ships and clouds i just cant see the planes when they r far enough :/ And my pre-poster have right - 1 person cant controll 5 things: movement direction, aiming (horizontally and vertically), changing speed, firing torpedos, and spotting and aiming planes at same time?? Ships doing this at real battle so why we have to resignate of everything else to just spot the plane and aim it? Especialy (if your pc will not freez) when u have 3 seconds to do it to hit them.
automaticall AA flak gunners should be added. And you saying then carriers will be useless? You are wrong... they always can send more planes like in real battles. not like it is now in navy field, carrier sending plane by plane and they just kill enemy almost without any risk to lose plane (about 5% to lose it if enemy will be great almost addicted pro player with 3 years experience) - that sux now :/ for majority of players aiming flak cannons properly and still stay alive is just impossible.

But if you think it will be too easy anyway then u can always make it harder by adding some things like: you have to show aa gunners where the plane is by clicking on it and then after 5 seconds they will automatically shot it with some % of accuracy.

And the current system isnt fine, it isnt even medium, it is useless - check the battles where carriers are, 5% of players have some flak shells on board? or less? noone shoting planes, almost noone....

And why should it do that? It would turn CV useless because you would no longer need any skill to keep planes off.

The current system is fine, use Aiming FCS, learn the angles and you are done.

Yea, but you have to remember, some of us manual users arent exactly the best AAers in the world obst...

The AA guns should be controlled by the AI, and not just the machine guns, the flaks.
One person was never put in control of every gun on the ship, different people had different jobs. The player should just aim his R slots and turn the ship.

As for torpedos, those can be left alone.

If you use Aiming FCS then you can control angles and directions of AA guns sufficiently, if you are using Auto (Mouseclicks to aim) then good AAing is impossible.

again..teamwork muniek. also, thats why TNF made that sound.. plane spotted'' or whatever it is..it gives you enough time to aim.if its directly above you, then ur too slow.everything can be learned by practice.so practice ok?aa gunners are really one of the most important sailors u can have there in a time of clan war..ive spent money to buy those sailors, had time to practice. so u have to do it too.so ul learn.aight?

so is there way to shot plane wich is like above you? i dont think so... but i really d'like to see something like this, maybe someone could create a gameplay with AA shoting? It would be very nice for learning.

By changing the angle of the AA guns you can kill planes at any position, even though it is not easy.

Teamwork is needed there, because if everyone could kill all planes alone CVs would be entirely useless.