Talk:Development/@comment-24197972-20131210153347/@comment-24155103-20131210172343

I pretty much exclusively encounter training fleets at my level (87), a few grief fleets, some sub fleets and every once in a while, single high-level ships from nice admirals.

In this situation, yes, a specialist would be an ASW ship, Isuzu or Yuubari do the job very well, my Kitakami and Ooi can usually take down a sub to moderate damage while in Line Ahead, but can't sink it, the specialist finishes the job.

What I refer to as a night battle fleet is just a set of ships that can sink the sub during day battle but can't do anything much else and rely on night battle to sink the rest, you'll likely want Line Abreast for this. Destroyers work well since they have very good firepower at night from cut-ins and double attacks, CLT sisters are obviously good at everything, if you have some leveled CL they work great too.

Quite risky to risk a night battle though, since some of your ships might get disabled during the day and your opponent could have double attack setups too. I'd recommend taking a specialist along instead, much safer since you can rely on BB and CLT firepower during the day.