Talk:Zero Fighter Model 62 (Fighter-bomber / Iwai Squadron)/@comment-107.199.60.148-20151030154830/@comment-26486243-20151031103743

AA kills a small base number of planes in addition to a fraction of slot size, AACI kills a fixed number of planes in every slot regardless of slot size.

Dive bombers are not meant to be in your highest slot. Adding any T62 FB variant to Taihou's 8-slot in the absence of AACI (or 24-slot in the presence of AACI) allows her to shell at 151 FP cap while carrying 4 squadrons that amp air power. Ditto for using this in Hiryuu/Souryuu's 1st slot, though in their cases they carry 3 air power squadrons and Saiun instead...

These are meant for shelling-focused Air Supremacy/limited-carrier Air Superiority CA-heavy fleet compositions, which excel against BWS nodes and Tsu-stacking. It's not going to make any sense if your mindset towards carriers is 'carry only as few fighters as you need for AS then stack many torpedo bombers as possible to sink as many targets as possible in the initial strike'. That's only one way carriers can be used effectively, which on some maps, particularly event ones, will murder your bauxite.

Basically if you've never run out of bauxite before then it doesn't matter, and you don't need this plane at all. The 10 AA + additional stats precursor would work better for your purposes. If bauxite efficiency matters or if BWS rekts you hard, you might want to read up the aerial mechanics on Combat in more detail and AACI specifically.