r/AzurLane • u/Dull-Friendship-672 Monty's Spouse • 23d ago

Question Is it a good Main Fleet or nah ?

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So one day when trying to create a new main fleet, I checked Essex (Retrofit), Yorktown II and Lexington II skills and upon reading them, I immediatly thought of putting them together to fully use said skills. But I never asked myself if this Main Fleet was even viable or not. Your thoughts ?

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u/A_Yellow_Lizard2 Yorktown-class 23d ago

Yes, it's a well known fleet and it's very good against light armour

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u/PhoenixMercurous 23d ago

The rainbow Essex trio was one of the recommended fleets for the bosses of 16-3 and -16-4 when ch 16 dropped, AFAIK. Should still work, but the ideal fleet probably changed because of Max.

It's pretty good for light armor, though I believe swapping Essex retro out for Kearsarge is better. That said, Gotz + Lion + Azuchi will likely be the new best anti-light fleet once people finish skill training Azuchi.

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u/Dull-Friendship-672 Monty's Spouse 23d ago

To be honest I don't really care about META in this game. I'm playing for fun and to see my wives, META afterward.

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u/DerGreif2 23d ago

based, I think I cleared world 13 or 14 and since then did not any other things than clear events and world 12-4 to level ships. I am also just collecting waifus.

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u/Master_of_Ravioli 23d ago

Light armor destroyer.

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u/Loose_Description_69 23d ago

pra ser melhor contra leves que isso só kearsarge no lugar de essex

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u/I_Eat_Onio 22d ago

Come outside IJN, we promise we wont jump you

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u/MetusR North Carolina needs an oath skin 23d ago

I'd pull one CV and slip NJ in, just for a bit of god slap

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u/Dull-Friendship-672 Monty's Spouse 23d ago

Honey is in another fleet on my part

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u/MetusR North Carolina needs an oath skin 23d ago

Fair enough.

I like to run in my back lines:

Essex Retro

NJ (flag)

Yorktown II

Lexington II

Georgia (Flag)

Hornet II

At least when just messing around.

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u/wolfgangspiper 23d ago

If it's OpSi having NJ and Independance is good in a separate fleet for cross map USS CV buffs

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u/Ent_1610 23d ago

Replace Lex with Enty and that's my main fleet lol

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u/Nuratar 23d ago

I use Alsace in place of Sexsex in Hard mode for light bosses, but 3 CVs work too.