Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25189003-20141012162041/@comment-87.151.151.41-20141015160540

I'd say you lack +acc or level, then. Carrier accuracy is rather poor during shelling without bonus, I agree, but at level 90+ and with +4 or +5 to accuracy, you can usually get a good 70% hit rate. That's still not amazing, but its a capped hit and will do serious damage. It's especially useful to have that because it helps clear out trash ships before your BBs start their second round. Ideally only the enemy BBs are left at this point, and you can hit them and sink them before they can hit you again.

When I wrote my comment I kind of backed up a little; you probably saw that. Like I said, if you completely ignore carrier shelling, then yes, the cranes are good carriers. But I think the situations where you can safely ignore it are fairly rare; you'd have to bring at least 4-ish battleships to make it worthwhile.

The idea should always be to eliminate all the enemy trash ships before the 2nd round starts so that the big ships can't hurt you. That drastically reduces aborts on the way and makes sorties on average much cheaper. You can't really trust a CV to sink a flag CA during shelling without capped FP.