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birbthecool

I finally understand navy.

Tutorial

https://preview.redd.it/z8ulwzd054gh1.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=974b000ac9caedf39ad593385ac99eac1ebcda40

After quite a while of never being bale to beat the British and American fleets, i can finally say that navy is easy.

If you want to learn here's what i did, spammed out only DD's with the design below, if you are playing a nation like Germany i would also recommend getting some heavy ships out as well.

https://preview.redd.it/x1tuoxuu54gh1.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9507d84b56b0678558f9e023f837aeff9de5994e

If you want to, you can add a fire control but i usually don't. If you are broke or fight navally under green air replace the dual purpose rapid fire guns with the normal ones, you could also remove the AA if you need less IC.

(This screenshot is to show that you don't need a huge starting navy like Japan to get good results)

One more note I would like to add is that if you are playing a nation like Germany that is mostly land based, i would not recommend spending time updating and getting a huge and amazing fleet, as it just wastes time, of course you can still build the destroyers show above.

Some last misc notes: If you do not want to use these designs, don't, Navy is decently easy once you figure it out. You can do torp destroyers, light-cruisers, whatever you want.

Always keep your navy is death stacks if possible, i normally put my subs and a few destroyers on patrol and my main fleet on strike force.

Posted Jul 29, 2026, 6:45 AM UTC

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