Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-1820055-20150701022818/@comment-26574811-20150802100322

Ar-cen-ciel wrote:

Vcharng wrote:

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: elite carriers and its direct screening force What is this screening force? Something like Tone and Akitsushima? "Screening" is the behavior of surface ships covering fellow carriers to protect them from possible shell fire. Iowa-class battleships often do this, because this is one of the most valuable thing they can do after the rise of naval aviation.

I chose this word because the original twitter used two different terms to describe "escorts", "直掩" and "護衛", and they have slightly diffent meanings. "直掩" means close cover in the same formation, much like battleships in our Carrier Forces do, and "護衛" are usually farther away from the carriers, in another formation, much like the second fleet in our Carrier Forces. That's a rather convoluted term. Anyway, doesn't seem like the mechanics would change much just yet. For Combined Fleet, maybe, but the carrier's system itself is said to be reworked around this summer.