Ash19256

First post on this forum, and it's to complain about the latest update. Off to a great start, aren't I... Anyways, my complaints have to do with the US Super Battleship mission and it's balancing. First problem is that we really need at least something resembling a set of screening vessels, or the Japanese destroyers need to be clubbed repeatedly with the nerf bat - I have been entirely unable to complete the mission despite my best efforts, and I frankly don't particularly see how we're supposed to beat that mission, due to the fact that, irregardless of what option we pick, we will functionally always be outgunned in addition to being outnumbered - I noted several instances where not only were the Japanese warships either on par with or technologically superior to my own ship, but also that on several occasions the Japanese super-battleship that is encountered in that mission was larger than my own ship - something which makes an already hard mission unpleasant. This is in addition to being functionally unable to do anything about the destroyers without throwing the mission away - they are able to stay outside of the range of my secondary battery guns while still remaining within torpedo range, forcing me to either attempt to close the range (all but guaranteeing that I eat even more torpedoes and also take a hammering from the enemy battleships) or switch my main battery guns to targeting the destroyers (wasting ammunition that, thanks to the rather ludicrous tankiness of ships in this update, I can't afford to waste, even with increased ammunition stowage). Another complaint, which is ultimately not unique to this update but made vastly more evident by it, is the fact that, despite things like the Mark 5 guns existing, we cannot use them in Custom Battles, for no reason which I am able to discern. This makes testing strategies for, say, the US Super Battleship mission basically impossible, due to being functionally unable to recreate the designs possible in that mission, unless we go with the lower-tech option, which results in our ship being out-performed by the Japanese battleships.