Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-34250367-20180130153156/@comment-32647310-20180131161823

BabyBone wrote: Is equiping the yellow gun also viable for normal maps? Normally my CV setup was first (or biggest) slot torpedo bombers, second slot (or first if torpedo bomber isn't) bombers, third slot fighters (for the better cut-in i believe?) and fourth slot one Saiun and other CVs Air Radar, but your idea seems much more useful.

By default, most CVs have a range of 'Short'. This means that they tend to go last and are tied with Destroyers. Shoukaku K2, Zuikaku K2, Graf Zepplin and Saratoga (all except Kai) are the only exceptions I know of and they have Medium, which puts them on par with most Cruisers.

Range is a factor only in that it is used to determine the order of combat for the first shelling phase with those with the longest range going first (order: Very Long (VL), Long (L), Medium (M) then Short (S)). If 2 or more ships have the same range, who shoots first among them is random.

For example, in a fleet of 2x DD and a CVL, fire order is determined randomly between the 3 ships. However, in a fleet of a BB, CV, CA, CL and 2x DD, the order of the first shelling phase would be BB, CA or CL, CA or CL based on who shot second, then randomly between the CV and 2x DDs until all have gone once.

Equipping a Secondary Gun on a CV changes this up. Even though each ship has a base range, adding a piece of equipment that has a range longer than that base alters that ship's overall range. Since Secondary Guns have a range of 'Medium', putting one on a CV now changes her range from 'Short' to 'Medium'.

This all being said, there are very few times, in my opinion, where one needs to do any of this for CVs...but the main reason to do so would be to help control MVP.

Also, congrats on getting Suzuya! I highly suggest you put her at or near the top of your leveling priorities, so you can can have your 2x CAVs.