Saxman, 2 days ago, there was a CV up off one of our bases, and it took something like an 45 minutes to kill the CV, even with a full dar bar in the CV's sector, and the sector our base was in. AND the crusier was down, so minus 2 5" twins, and some 40mm ack.
Its a little gamey having uber ack that can zoom in on you to the point where a hit is guarenteed at 7k. All I'm asking for is to have the inside of the gun sponsons and turrets modled, and make the ack gunners actually do some work for those hundreds of kills. Have it so they have to use the vision slit (or whatever they used) to aim.
And for using the HE shells, maybe add a range finder, and have it function like the bomb sight calibration. The longer you calibrate, the more precise reading you will get (to within .5k). And to offset the increased ease of gunning, they have to type in the range they want to have the gun set to, and let them have a limited traverse and elevation, so they can give the target some lead.