Talk:Combat/@comment-5003891-20141116215619/@comment-25534439-20141117050516

"actual AA" was poor wording on my part. Though that is an informative post, to me it only raises more questions about the poor implementation of the small caliber AA in the game. It's partially historical elements of the game (IJN AA was not that great) and partially the equipment slot system the game uses, but I have yet to encounter any reason to use the small caliber AA guns. I hope that the recent changes will have me rethinking my position, but for the moment they're a waste of a slot. Since the mechanics before the patch allowed the small caliber AA to provide fleet AA support (sum of all AA stat), the restriction of AA cut-ins to the high angle weapons seems to be doubling down on the small caliber AA guns being worthless.