Talk:Type 96 150cm Searchlight/@comment-104.238.161.81-20150921211646/@comment-26936502-20161023063438

I think it's depend on situation. This large SL will be useful in case of:-

1. You really don't need that extra damage at day time from AP CI. Or don't care about higher DA rate at day time. Most likely in escorted fleet.

2. You really don't need that extra damage BB equipment could provide against specific target such as T3 and/or seaplane fighter (in case it could be equipped).

3. You really need that much tank from your BB at night time. In this case, the target will be likely have lots of armor and aren't installation type. Maybe 200+ armor where DA from any Non-CLT didn't effect much.

4. In case you want to have higher tank chance when fight against installation type too, you may need to sacrifice some of BB dmg bonus mentioned above. In this case, ally fleet won't have much benefit from CI rate increased.

5. You don't want one more slot for ship that have better torpedo CI dmg than BB. It's number of CI ships against number of healthier CI ships.