Playing CV1 and CV2 is a test of your patience... annoying and little rewarding... but to
not give up... it will get better once you reach CV4 (I hope).

No seriously, I used locals and still use them sometimes on my YT, because unlike with BBs
you cannot compensate the lack of pilot skills with play skill... if the enemy has much
higher fighters you cannot do anything... and sorry, even scouting is not an option for
fighters... the enemy has AA and the enemies fighters can move as well... my squads often
do not even reach the enemy lines before getting shot down... with locals you can at least
score a few hits and gain cash to keep your CV running... normally I now use T2 fighers,
but when I got owned over and over again I still switch back to locals because loosing a
whole load of planes to a high level CV and then getting flamed by your team for not doing
anything (because all your planes are down) is not good for your credit count and very
frustrating... with locals you still get flamed, but at least you might get some creds.

heres what i did, for the most part... i would load up a load of locals and one bomber
plane. Then, go to blitz and dont bother with the bomber. look for games with oyodo,
mogami, or another little CV. then, just shoot down all those enemy planes with your
locals. I could earn 50k creds each game WITHOUT PREM. in a good game i could get
100k. that was with bogue, CV1.

OH No what did we ever do before Locals came out....but if u havnt noticed 90% of
your good cv players played this game b4 those worthless locals ever came out...as
blazer pointed out u learn to micro manage and fighter scout.....and common sense
tells you that even if you get 5-10k plane kills with locals and lose the guy with 2k
plane kills and the win is going to get better xp all around....LOCALS are only good in
cv rooms to credit exploit other than that they are a waste....only way they would
be useful is if they had there own class where u could use fighters and locals at the
same time otherwise FAIL....Just sayin I mean your not gonna completly blind them
with locals with all the cvs in the room and subs and good T3s and T4s can wtfpwn
LOCALS.....

You should listen to Audessy. He's a pretty good player.













NAT.

The bottom line is that you have no business being in GB2 with L40 fighters in the first
place. The best advice you can have it to plan your crew out. That means having "ship of
fools" all rookie pilots in a CV in blitz, piling up XP and getting to L55. Once you get
your crew together, then you should have them all on the CV1 in blitz. That is the place
to learn. When you can't stay in blitz anymore, then go on to GB2.

Honestly, if you are in GB2 as a CV1 or CV2 there isn't much you can do and for the most
part you are a liability to your team. Sure, you can bomb a litte and maybe give some
vision but for the most part you'll be food. If the reason that you are there getting that
wonderful shared xp is because you can't get into blitz anymore that is completely
understandable. If not, then you are leaching and your team is paying for it. The other
team is getting a stronger CV to go against you and your team pays the XP penelty for
getting a loss instead of a win.

If you didn't plan your crew well, then I suggest you put together an AA ship or ASW ship
and work those L40 pilots up to L55 or L60. I hate to tell you but the flames you get will
never stop as a CV. I'm at L82 and even now when I'm getting owned by PCVs with L120 T4s
morons still flame me for vision and other stupid things.

I've played with unboosted non-bve level 40 pilots before and tried T1's. They often ran out of
ammo before killing a scout. Stop suggesting T1's. Unless you spend money, they'll absolutely
!@#ing suck. Locals at least can catch up to bombers in a reasonable amount of time. Sure,
they make better scouts but it's about as much fun as AIDS.

the advice on the mines on the scouts isnt the best one out there; 'cause if
you're on the winning team your rushing mates will hit a mine and you're hard
earned xp will be gone before you know it.

cv1/2 are ok with locals; most of the other higher lvl cv's dont expect you to
give light/ scout, knowing your position all to well. the BB's that tell you to
scout.. well .. ignore them as much as possible

when using locals try staying out of friendly AA lines (also when using larger
planes, it just aint worth it..) this leaves you 2 things to do;
1. fly them past your line to the centre field, on locals you need to have a
target in mind before launching, because you'll run low in fuell if you need to
pick one when there. (as mentioned before stay below max alt, 70-ish & lower
is from where the safe zone starts)
operating in centre field needs a good vision, because you need to pick up on
the incoming scouts & bombers before they are there in order to not engage
them in the AA region (you'll be chasing back to your line for some time, would
be a shame to be hit by AA after you shot down the plane afterall).
for the good vision you need to be with a light orientated high tier cv (cv's
tend/should split ballanced trough north & south, so you should be ok with that)

2. pick the flank with least AA dedicated ships, allowing you to operate over the
BB's against scouts (for bombers you again need to intercept before they are
there). mind that BB's tend to use AA as well, not as much, but they do.

As soon as you'r into the T2 class you might want to use the T2 and get into
dragging planes (clicking a lot to give your fp new coord to fly to, in order to
not get tangled in a fight you cant win). making 500-1000 mouseclicks a battle
is hard work, but it pays of really well. Plus you'r dragging skills will make your
T3's & T4's perform even stronger at a later time.
Then again, if you drag locals that are at T2 lvl you'r even stronger!


and then there's allways the CV room, locals are the normal choice in there for
low lvl cv's

"Isn't there some way to remove TK damage completely? It would be a pretty good
improvement to the game imo."

I'm really hoping that when they finally do rework the structure of NF they remove
Friendly Fire (both from ships and planes). I mean come on, if it could be done with the
Original Nintendo games (Double Dragon having two co-op modes, one with FF off and one
with it on), then it should surely be able to be done with Navyfield...

Anyone that flaims CV1/2 isnt worth their weight anyway. Most BB players that flame
CVs cant take care of themselve and need their hands held. Some CVs do deserve
to be flamed but at level CV12 should be given a pass. By CV3 you should atleast
have an idea of what you are doing but you wont be able to carry a team until cv
4.5ish.

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For the most part a CV1/2 should be given leeway (assuming they're not flying around high
level fighters).

T1s are some what slow, dragging can be a pita with them, but still have a much better
capability for it than locals. The best thing playing T1s did for me was get me in the
habit of never stop clicking, and almost never ending up in the circle of death.

As for the friendly AA, you can look at it from a few different perspectives, but from a
team standpoint an experienced AA boat is going to do a bit more for its team than locals.
A CV that is micro'ing his planes is going to waste (even fast locals) time by dragging
you around, while an AA boat can spam his AA taking them down quickly. Keeping this in
mind here is the mentality of most players in the game (goes for BB, CV, AA, and SS). I
want to do as much attack/shootdowns. CVs using locals want shootdowns (or they would
drag with T1/2s. AA boats want shootdowns, BBs want their attack, SSs want BBs to leave
ships for them to sink. From a winning (tried and true) team perspective, in FL/HA/and
other fleet events, our CVs first and foremost scout. In FL you have PCAs AA'ing (really
only trying to dwindle the other teams CVs planes), but the CVs planes are always over the
other line, shootdowns are left to the PCAs or BBs behind the line repping. It just works
when the game is played as a Team. Even in Fleet games, if friendly planes are above
friendly ships they will get hit by friendly AA.

I personally believe if you are determined to use locals you are going to struggle more to
be effective. At that point your only real help is going to be putting them out of
friendly AA range hitting scouts or lucky and catching bombers before they reach the AA
boats range. But again if they get in range of friendly AA, the AA is going to be more
beneficial to the team. When it happens I'll try to avoid hitting the friendly planes,
but I am going to make sure I hit the enemy planes.

Anyone that flaims CV1/2 isnt worth their weight anyway. Most BB players that flame
CVs cant take care of themselve and need their hands held. Some CVs do deserve
to be flamed but at level CV12 should be given a pass. By CV3 you should atleast
have an idea of what you are doing but you wont be able to carry a team until cv
4.5ish.