User blog comment:Hayashi H/30 October Fighter Quest-chain/@comment-175.156.32.28-20151104080603

Just 1 clarification. Regarding the 2nd last par on event usage, which is the only general usage I can see for the T62 Iwai: basically, since enemy flak guns are going to shoot all your bombers down and rank is irrelevant since you will almost certainly lose all bomber ranks on the first run across whatever AA princess, Tsu-elite, etc, you might as well have the fighter-bomber squadron to contribute to boss-node air power before their inevitable annihilation, while allowing carriers to shell during pre-boss, esp air-battle-only, nodes. Is that right?

I am not so sure about that, because even without tsu-elite there are still a lot of enemies with high base AA values, e.g. battleship princess, Ru-kai, Wo-kai that will flak down a lot of fighter-bombers on pre-boss nodes, which forces you to put the fighter-bomber on the largest slot, sacrificing air power 3-fold: rank-based air power(~20 air power), fighter(i.e. reppuu) higher base AA value air power, and losing more planes per node due to AA guns also factoring in. By the time you reach the boss, the contribution to air power is minimal.

The way I see it, a ranked Iwai FB is only situationally viable on the 3 armoured carriers, and only on the first slot, to make use of the 20% increase to the damage cap from max rank. That being said, I've had the entire taihou 30 slot annihilated by flak guns before, so this is quite sketchy even then.

I am also not sure why you mention the chuuha malus as a reason to not use t62 iwai on armoured carriers. If a similarly positioned unarmoured carier in a similar fleet gets blown up, it won't even shell at all while wasting a "turn" in your shelling order, so isn't this a reason _for_ the use on armoured carriers? Unless you are trying to say you'd rather have some heavy cruiser fire before your damaged mid-range carrier in shelling order?