I have relevelled a bo and torp sailors to bring a kita back to blitz to enjoy the new
Hobbit War map. Levelling them in a Simakaze right now. The most fun I've ever had.
4 out of 5 games I score the most damage in spite of driving a DD (albeit with T3 torps).

I use aiming FCS and dont worry about sinking ships ...... my Kitakamis purpose is to
distract the enemy and do damage in order to help the team. As with any ship .....
you will have your good and bad battles.

I always use SS FCS on my Kita. Don't think it counts as Auto.

If you are using SS FCS to save weight, does that count as autofcs?

I use manual FCS and still get crap XP even with good attack.

How many of you are using auto for your kita?

Recall that they nerfed damage for autofcs ships....Kitakami included.

"As for GB2 I would also suggest AA whore instead of TW. I have ran my Moltke as
AAW and come out with on average 20K exp per game. "

Yeah... 4.7s kinda suck for AAW ship.

The problem is that the XP nowaday's for TW Kita's is a joke. Where as I used to be
able to rack up around 80K-100K atk in a good game and then get 50K XP. Now the last
time I pull it out I had just over 60K atk and I got only 4K XP. That was a very good
game where I didn't get sunk, and we won. Also, I did sink an SS, and still only got 4K.
Seem's once again the BB only driver's got their wish, and now they can ride their godly
chariot's of imaginary doom. That's ok. The BB5-6 can still avg 200K+ ATK and get
massive amount's of XP. Then again most of those account's are fairy tale's and half-
truth's.

I drive T4 KM sub , O Project , Europa , Hindenburg , Kitakami , Hiryu , and Unryu.
As a sub driver I sometimes get anoyed with the number of subs as well as the
number of ASW ships combined......... this is when I bring out my Kitty. Its my way of
getting even with them. I have a pattern that is on an angle and so far nobody red
can avoid. I have (in GB2) had 50K attack by sinking many small ships and subs and
enjoy distracting everyone from what they are doing because of my torps. I also like
plowing the field for my sides BBs to rush after my torps.
that said ............. I have no problem with the exp settings because you need to
take advantage of sinking subs exp.

It also depends on your playing style. You might get best results when you wait a few
minute, flank the enemy and torp their BBs either south or north. For my part, I mostly
break out my Kita when I'm bored or gotta lvl neuts.

Hence, I load 130 torps, spam my walls and sit back. XP also strongly depends on your Torp
launcher/ Torp setup. With the M1 Mod 01 Torps, you have the best range which means you
can start torping rather early without being too much in danger of being oneshot. Mod 03
don't run that far, but are way more lethal to BB bulge.

The M3 Torps again do more dmg in general, but alas, they're travel distance is rather short.