Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-2132878-20170706210650/@comment-29735334-20170707045703

PeroimFeld wrote:

I felt obliged to stop by and correct this mess before any harm is done. First, CAV aren’t optional at all for a whole lot of tasks, such as TCF and dealing with installations (CAVs can equip WGs, CAs can’t), and that’s before we consider that they are often used for branching purposes. Second, the difference between a Kai Mogami-class and Kai Ni Tone-class on yasen DA is 32 points of damage – that’s not insignificant, especially against late map bosses with insane armor. And seriously, saying that “Suzuya and Kumano reach their best performance levels as CVLs rather than CAVs” is straight up ridiculous, given that both classes have wildly different purposes. Actually, it is not entirely wrong to say that (barring routing purposes) CAV is optional. Case in point, if one only has Type 3 shell as their anti-installation gear, it makes no difference whether to put in on CA or CAV. In fact, I'd suggest putting it on CA in this specific case because they generally have better FP value over CAV. CAV's game is versatility, and it only begins to shine once one gets equipment such as landing crafts, seaplane fighters, and the most-coveted WG42 (for anti-installation work, and it's quite rare, too).

As for the last point in the quotation that I bolded out - yeah, I am just voicing my agreement with that. CVL =/= CAV.