Flak

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Tank Target: In WW2, the flaks were exploding at a predestined altitude, and it was effective, especially against bomber formations. But the flak couldn't take a plane from one hit, that's for sure. But here, it takes out a bs:lol:

Sorry, but flak certainly was able to knock down aircraft with one shot, just depended on how close it hit. An 88mm shell popping near the wing of a B-17 had no trouble taking the big bird down, tough as she was.

I really like the paper-scissors-rock weaponry proposed. Mortars being the primary way to take out cruisers and larger, medium batteries for destroyers and gunboats and maybe the heavy fighters with the worst turn rates, and then flak for the small stuff. This forces choices on players when they arm their ships and invites teamwork. If your BB mounts mortars he should be the terror of other large cap ships. If he mounts medium weaponry then the smaller more dodgy cap ships should fear him. And if he mounts mostly flak then the fighters need to stay away or die.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."