Talk:Combat/@comment-5046483-20140303024714/@comment-24155103-20140303040754

I'm biased since I find dive bombers to be utterly useless, their shelling damage is barely better than torpedo bombers if the latter get the 0.8 modifier and much lower if we get 1.5.

If you deploy divers, you're practically giving up your initial air phase since even Suisei 12As can barely sink normal DDs/CLs, don't expect much against stronger ships. I'm not a fan of using carriers as cheap BBs, torpedo bombers are what defines the class for me and that's what I use for them.

Dive bombers do have the (unconfirmed?) advantage of getting destroyed less than torpedo bombers, which saves some Bauxite, maybe.