Talk:Combat/@comment-180.56.56.87-20140203182050/@comment-175.156.71.167-20140203194348

AA guns helps ONLY during the Air strike phrase where it will have a chance to shoot down planes to reduce the damage taken, although the amount it will shoot down is unknown but higher AA means more planes will be shot down. There are rare occasions where the Enemy CV cannot attack at shelling phrase due to all the planes have been shot down but you will need very high AA stats.

During shelling phrase, plane count does not matter and as long the CV got 1 plane, it will do the shelling damage formula.