Thread:TTK lol/@comment-26872187-20151022165306/@comment-26872187-20151023011409

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Thanks for replying politely.

About flying boat, the plane itself is great, but it's tied to Akitsushima, who's really weak. Contact is nice, but it won't be much of use when you have to retreat because of her. For E5, a CAV+2DD gave the same routing as with Akitsushima, and this comp felt much more reliable to me than kamo. I guess it made sense to use Akitsushima if one wanted to save resources, but for me, it looked risky. But guess you're right, it is an option.

About Italian BB guns, didn't know about the fit bonus for Fusou/Ise-class, thanks for telling. I remembered hearing somewhere "italian guns is for italians only" and that stuck with me. I guess the 381kai is pretty useful then.

About duplex radar, I love the equip and it's fairies and stuff, but after getting it, I realized that I almost never use it outside of "fun" situations like PvP or easy maps. Yeah, for support exp, it would be pretty useful, true. Forgot about that since I hardly used any support exp so far. Also never thought about that DA vs CI argument, will consider it next time, so thanks for telling.

You are right that I don't know every nook and cranny of the game mechanics. But I think most don't know about every little thing, even experienced admirals. And to be good at the game, often enough you also don't need to know everything, from my personal experience, but just the really important parts. And I don't think that you need to be a top teitoku with 2 year experience, 3 FCF and several rank rewards to be allowed to judge an equip. Everyone who played this game for a certain time and doesn't completely suck at the game can do some judgement of their own. I'm not a top teitoku, but since I managed E7 easy, 5-5 and also ranked once and started playing the game since Spring event 2015, I do think I'm doing rather well in the game for my playtime and thus am allowed to judge a little, I say :-P

I can see that the mentioned equips (and of course, the Keiun too) can be useful in certain situations. But those situations are just so rare that for 95% of the time, you won't even use the equip at all (apart from italian BB guns). And even in the situations where you use it, the items aren't game breakers, but just a little improvement. So at least to me, these items feel kind of 'useless' in the sense that they don't really live up to their rarity. But I guess everyone can decide themselves if they want to call certain equip useless or not.