Talk:General Discussion/@comment-14810231-20140615170349/@comment-72.213.191.35-20140616054549

Since no one gave specific stats, here they are:

Shelling power: Suisei12A: +20, Ryuusei kai: +19.5

Opening bombing power: Suisei12A: 10, Ryuusei kai: 10.4/19.5 (50/50 chance)

Other than those stats, there is absolutely no other difference between the two. If you're smart enough to test out on your own, you'd notice that bauxite usage will be the same whether you fill your carriers with nothing but red planes or nothing but blue planes. There's no proof that red planes are more durable. Also: accuracy for any type of opening aerial bombing sucks, there's no discernable difference.

In general though you'd want to use either kancolleviewer or the above mentioned link to calculate the minimum fighter power you need to get AS for the node with highest AS requirement of a map, and add on +10 in case some get shot down in prior nodes. And then fill the rest of your slots with Ryuusei kais and one Saiun. Type62 is for when you just need that small bit of extra fighter power to meet AS requirement.