Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170829010745/@comment-2605:6001:F440:E900:D8E3:DC8F:8229:C1D8-20170904164224

Kenji135 wrote: Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Kenji135 wrote: ...Like night bombings that act like jets. Jets have legitimate reason to eat extra steel (at least during WW2). Night bombing doesn't have any real reason for eating steel, since aircrafts are made from bauxite metals. It doesn't have to be steel (in fact, it would be kind of them if it consumes steel) but other resources such as fuel / bauxite because the plane is sent both during day and night aerial.

Or alternatively, the plane is only sent out during night aerial.

But the twist is, now we'll have night nodes where we have to fight for air supremacy in order to proc night scout and night artilerry spotting.

Because seriously, why else would the plane have such high AA >_>. F6F-5N wasn't too inferior to F6F-5 depsite the extra load(The thing that was effected most was climb rate), which is not surprising since F6F was a rather inefficient design made of compromises. Also Enterprise when acting as a night carrier used her F6F-5Ns for CAP both Day and Night. Now the devs could always make you lose a few extra planes in night battle of course but honestly the accident rates actually didn't go up as much as you might think. Really the biggest problem was Saratoga's early retirement(As she was supposed to be the carrier whose main duties were CAP for Day and Night, while Enterprise's main duty was supposed to be night strikes or as they call it in her action reports Heckling.  Both could do the other's duties if needed as Sara also had TBM-3Ds as well.  Of course since the Saratoga's night carrier career was ended short, all the duties fell solely upon Enterprise.  So the real biggest limiter then was how tired the aircrews were.

By the way one of the reasons Night carrier have lower complements(especially in terms of spare aircraft) is because one of the duties of a night carrier was to recover aircraft of other Carriers if needed. Also a large deck park probably would have gotten in the way. Even Bon Homme Richard a carrier with more tonnage and some larger hangar than Enterprise was only carrying 55 aircraft(18 TBM-3D, 1 F6F-5P and the rest were authorized to be F6F-5Ns). I'm sure the time required for training pilots for both day and night operations was a factor as well. Saratoga was authorized to operate the largest amount of aircraft out of all the carriers with night duties at 70 to 72(whatever source Wikipedia used says it was 53 fighters and 17 torpedo bombers, another source I have read states she was authorized to carry 24 F6F-5 2 F6F-5P 32 F6F-5N 14 TBF-3D)  well it's not like air groups were static. This airgroup might also make sense for an Armored Carrier Form if she actually got such a form.