Talk:Akashi/@comment-25289127-20141202012859

I'm probably not the first guy with this idea but I've read all the comments here since the new AA system was introduced and couldn't find anything about it, so I will share my experience here, maybe it will be useful for somebody:

So I wanted to level my Akashi with PvP battles, like probably most people do it.

First I had a look at her equipment, a factory and two empty slots. I've already beaten quite a few Akashis in PvP, enough to know that she's utterly weak in combat, much like Akitsumaru or Maruyu.

"So what to do? What equipment could I give her so be useful? Probably nothing..." is what I thought and ended up using her for two battles as flagship just with that single factory. Sure that gave her some nice xp but I was still bothered by it and went back to the equipment page.

"So what equipment does she have? Hm... destroyer weapons. I doubt that will make her really useful. Let's go to the last page. Star shells... nah... oh autogyros haha that would be fun... but she has zero plane slots. AA guns, maybe she could shoot some planes down. Some HA guns and secondary guns... seems like this is the best stuff to equip. Two 15.5cm guns... and a 12.7cm... maybe...? Two 12.7cm? Wait, 12.7cm and... AA director? Would that make sense? Can Akashi do cut-ins?"

So I went to battle with 2x 12.7cm HA guns + type 91 AA director...



...well yeah... she can.

I used her with this setup a couple times now. Her cut-ins don't seem to shoot down as many planes as for example Akizukis does (makes sense when you compare those AA values right?) but she still seems to be able to shoot down quite a few planes. Actually she surprised me with the amout of planes she can shoot down. I was able to secure air supremacy a few times when I had expected to only get air superiority. In addition she can still attack with those two 12.7cm guns and from what i've seen the damage isn't really lower than with two 15.5cm guns. (Well I guess 50% of almost nothing is still almost nothing...). So far I would really recommend this setup. Further testing on how many planes she can shoot down would be appreciated.