User blog comment:Dragonjet/KC3改/@comment-84.90.161.45-20150724214000/@comment-84.90.161.45-20150725210312

Oh, so it's not a bug as I thought, just the game mechanics at work. Thank you for the explanation.

But I still don't understand the red numbers. Are these the number of planes shot down after the airstrike phase? If so, the math doesn't add up ...

Take screenshot 1, for example: 170 - 16, 36 - 6. Considering your explanation, what I understand from this is that, at the end of the airstrike phase, 16 planes were shot down, of which 6 planes were bombers, and that 36 bombers remain for the shelling phases. But there were 40 bombers in total at the beginning of combat, so it seems that, somehow, either the CVs pulled out 2 extra bombers out of their butts (they eat bauxite, maybe they shit planes), or 2 bombers were shot down out of nowhere. Then again, following the same train of thought, 16 planes were shot down, yet there's still the same 170 planes available after the airstrike ...

Is my math wrong? Did I understood it wrong? Maybe I'm over-reacting? My OCD is kicking ...