Talk:Spring 2018 Mini-Event/@comment-35181613-20180516030630/@comment-26082284-20180516063733

Saiun is no replacement for flying boat. It only extends range by +1 and only up to 8 total.

Flying boat has +3 bonus for pretty much any practical range (20 is the limit, but no map and no other plane got close to that).

It's not unusual for event boss nodes to be at range 8-10 or more. Use of flying boat enables planes with ranges 5-7 (common for carrier-based planes) to engage them.