Talk:Spring 2016 Event/@comment-25938809-20160506221247/@comment-27265134-20160506225408

The air base attacks work very similar to the Carrier Aerial phase. You can calculate your fighter strength of your squad. Its roughly 60 AA with a rank 7 reppu per slot. Depending on if you would get AI/AP/AS ect you will shoot down a number of planes. So you want to build your first squad so it gets enough for AP or AS and fill the rest with bombers.

Take for example the E-5 boss on hard has roughly 113 for AP. If you were to equip 2 fighters you would have roughly 120 AA, and get AP for the first pass. You would kill upt to 60% of the enemy planes. Which shifts the AA rating off the boss, say you kill 60% the new ap raiting of the boss would be roughly 50 with AS being about 100. The next wave will get AS and kill 80% of the remaining planes. Reducing the AP to 10 and AS to 20. Then your bombers come in with a fighterbomber and you will get AS+ on the next two passes. Killing off even more planes.

So the ideal setup for hard mode E5 would be 2-3 figheters 1-2 bombers in squad one and 3 land based bombers +1 fighterbomber in squad 2.

Using this, the boss would always have less than 300 hp left. And the two supporting BBs. If AACI procs the boss has no bombers left which means it cant attack durring the day. So you want to run Shelling support to try and kill off the BBs.