Talk:World 4/@comment-24930367-20160606090905/@comment-26247760-20160612123654

@Kamijou Thats not the case at all. If you understood how the mechanics work, you'd realize that tsu elites have approximately -16 planes during Fixed Air Defense. Since proportional air defense would subtract a bit more before fixed air defense, you'd want to be above 18 to be safe for any one node.

Since defending ship is picked randomly, and both fixed air defense and proportional air defense are 50% each (25% for both), its generally safe enough to just make sure all your bombers are above 18 slots for them to survive throughout the run. Unfortuantely, if the same slot is targetted by tsus in multiple nodes, yes you could lose all of kaga's 46 slot. However, its impossible for kaga to lose all of her 46 slot in 1 node due to just AA.