AA shells are already shooting down planes way too easier than their real life counterpart.

Unless you're nerfing all non-US/UK (which had the Mk.37 FCS and VT shell) AA accuracy to a generally unacceptable level that you need to project hundreds of shells into the sky to bring down one or two planes, no.

....AA?.... never knew that there was already aa in the game.... :l nothing would have to be nerfed and i'm not trying to say every1 would hav to load HE for taking out planes. i'm only trying to say y can't they hit them when ur shooting another ship see as how some gun hav high angles just think of it as collateral damge lol. there was a show i used to watch and i remember one of the episodes there was a ship using ALL it's gun to hit the planes lol

Well what if we shoot the water and the planes fly into the big funnels of water and killed them that way. Because during the battle of gutacanel US planes had to advoid the water thingys that the JAPAN battleships were shooting into to take em down. So y not just let the BB's only use this by shooting into the water to stop low flying planes? Would make sense.

:l AA will still hav it's ability for takin out planes and i'm NOT saying to use HE as aa..... I'M SAYING then when u shoot a ship what's stoping a shell in mid flight TOWARDS another ship from hitting the plane :l aka not using HE as AA but as HE would normaly be used for

The problem with that suggestion, as far as reality is concerned, is that HE shells (or heaven forbid, AP shells) would only do a miniscule amount of damage on a plane, and only on a DIRECT HIT!

I know what you'll be thinking now:

"Why a miniscule amount, its a huge shell filled with explosives!"

Right, but consider that all non-AA shells used a impact or time-delayed fuze, which would only activate if the shell impacts a sufficient amount of material...like the ships body, or its superstructure etc.

Its the same principle thats behind AP doing less damage to unarmored ships/ship parts. There is just not enough material in the way to generate sufficient impact force to activate the fuze - or at least, to get the shell to explode before it already passed through the plane...at best the plane would have a variably sized hole, which may or may not impede its ability to keep in the air.

AA Shells on the other hand damaged a large amount of the planes structure through bursting in the air and covering the adjacent area with shrapnel.