User blog comment:Faeriedust/How I choose planes for my CVs/@comment-26458588-20150721174127/@comment-11780006-20150806091806

As for torp vs dive:

I specifically removed that part for simplicity sake.. but.. for me:

Egusa > torp > dive

Torp and dive bombers have very similar shelling damage, but behave very differently in opening air strike.. In particular, see plane scaling on Combat page.

Say I put a ryuusei kai (13 torp) on 20 slot. Then we're looking at: ~66 dmg (scratch vs decent armor) or ~125 dmg (flip a coin)

If I put Suisei 12A (10 divebomb) on same 20 slot, I'll get ~70 dmg (scratch vs decent armor)

Torp plane pretty significantly better here. Comparison is similar regardless of plane size, since the numbers just get scaled linearly.