Talk:Combat/@comment-25687565-20141121195436/@comment-9676492-20141121203541

You seem to have completely forgotten about the AA stat. What you observed is completely consistent with the current system. Your fighters (which granted you air supremacy) were untouched. The destroyers' anti-aircraft guns tore your bomber squadrons to shreds.

Here's how the AA stat basically works:  A ship's AA stat indicates how many planes she shoots down when planes attempt to bomb her. The calculation works differently for our ships and Abyssal ships.

Our ships are REALLY good at shooting down enemy planes. Like really good. Like, a fleet of nonelite destroyers will EACH shoot down ~18 planes from each bombing squadron, and that's assuming they only have 10cm high-angles and regular 12.7cm twin guns, not even with AA radar. If you have ships like Hatsuharu, Shigure, Ushio or heaven forbid Akizuki in there, that number increases into the 20s and even 30s for Akizuki.

You may notice over on the PVP page that we recommend against using planes in PVP. You just demonstrated why. Sorry, not a recent change or anything, working as intended.