It depends what you are doing with your fighters. Even with all the tips put above, if the opposite player is doing the same, you'll probably lose, ceteris paribus. The trick, I suppose, is to accept the fact you have lost set-piece field battles. If it's accepted we have the worst/second worst fighters, and if you know your FPs are not competitive, why are you sending them into set-piece battles?
It's a waste of your capacity. There's no point trying to control the centre if you can't win - your team may request it, but it's a losing battle. It's the job of the CVs with the better fighters to do that. So what are the use of your fighters?
To protect capital ships from bombing, I suppose. But who really bombs nowadays?
So why do people want to control the centre? To control the flow of scouts and for general reconaissance. Ultimately the aim is to keep the enemy line lit up while yours is in darkness. So in theory what you should be doing is micro-ing your fighters around the enemy fighters and putting them over the enemy BB line. Two effects arise from this: - Firstly that you have armed reconnaissance in force. It will a) prevent the enemy from putting up scouts b) might draw their focus onto AA if they don't have AA escorts (which you can bomb, incidentally) c) will draw back their fighters from the centre, OR will draw their fighters over your BB. Either one achieves /at least/ a parity in reconnaissance. - Secondly that while you will almost certainly lose planes, you will lose them achieving some kind of useful end. If you find another CV you can put them over the CV and it will throw him off, especially if this is a CV with worse fighters than you.
EITHER WAY you lose your planes. But at least here you do some good.
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