Zuikaku

I agree that loaders are way too difficult to research. In the first 30 or 40 years you do not get any improvements at all!

Was war economy tweaked again? And only the lead ship in the battlegroup fires on the target. Following ships either do not fire or have 0% hit probability all the time.

Any hope for a possibility to keep the shielded gun mounts during the refits? Switching to oversized turets is something that just ruins the design! Either do not switch to the newest mount/gun automatically or let us choose if we want to stick with the old gun type!

AI is finally designing ships capable of giving me a headache.

There shoul'd just be a way to interact with minor nation. Now I've got the case of being at war with Turkey (since it is allied with France which is at war with me) but I just can not do: -naval invasions - attack their fleets - strike their ports

Auto targeting shoul'd be switched off the moment player interfere and assign the target to the ship manually. It is quite annoying to assign the targets to each ship manually and then suto targeting changes this completely messing up targetting and range found bonuses in the process.

After 1900 shielded guns are just becoming unavailable. And sometimes I woul'd rather use shielded guns than turreted ones. They are lighter, cheaper and can fit in places where turrets can not. Not to mention you can fit 2-3 shielded gun mounts in the same place required for 1 turreted equivslent. Please let us have option to use shielded or turreted gun placement.

Didn't see AI running away last few battles. Convoy escorts rushed at me to give transports time to run away. They even managed to damage me enough to become too slow for pursuit. It is far better than before.

Cowardly AI is forcing me to build extremely fast destroyers for pursuit only. When they manage to catch fleeing AI TF it tends to turn and fight. But this is stupid, I do not want to build these racing DDs but cowardly AI forces me to do so.

I have to very often assign the same target over and over again since my ships decide to target something else. Switch to turn off auto targeti g woul'd be helpful!

This AI cowardice is not even funny anymore. This issue is unadressed for years now!

Even more better are ambushes where 8 TBs flee the single CA they are ambushing. Before even trying to do anything, ofcourse.

Just PREVENT AI from running away if the battle is generated! This is so annoying especially in convoy and ambush battles. Many times AI have numerical superiority and coul'd easily swarm player but it is too busy running away.

Depends how much you invest and research and which priorities do you set.

There have never been so many AI TFs sailing around with low fuel. Yes, you coul'd meet them here and there, but never with such frequency. Wy does AI not automatically send TFs to first port when ships start hitting 40% or less fuel status?