Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-85.152.222.57-20161222120438/@comment-79.27.114.244-20161224122622

Dear Tsubakura, what I'm saying is coming from my experience with their CV form.

Recently, I watched "World 5-5 Final Kill (Feat. Saratoga & Jets)" on Youtube. That fleet got the same AS/AS+  I get when I use 3 CV (Kaga, Shoukaku and Zuikaku) and about the same result in the opening airstrike (actually I usually get a better result at first node, but he could have been unlucky there) but it performed poorly at the boss (mainly due to the carriers). He was lucky in yasen, but I have better chance using 3FBB (Italia, Roma and Bismarck).

To say it clearly, their CV form usually allows you to bring one more BB (artillery spotting is the best way to deal damage to enemies, imo) and I never, and I say NEVER, counted on carriers to deal damage in the shelling phase, so being unable to attack when medium damaged doesn't matter anything to me (and I never had problems).

Also, I find the CV inferior armor value still enough to usually remain afloat (and if I need more armor I could use an expansion slot and a bulge).

About the Yamato/Iowa example, it's very fitting. Yamato/CVB have less possible roles than Iowa/CV, or rather one excels at one thing only while the other is still good at that and is way better in other things.

With that said, I'm not saying that one is better than the other, I just say that it's all about the role you need. I even made some calculation about the possible FP (without losing power in the opening air strike) in the fleets I used in the past events if I had used their CVB form instead of their CV and it seems possible to have 1 CVB but not 2 (at least without losing 1 torpedo bomber squadron or adding another carrier).