User blog comment:Hayashi H/30 October Fighter Quest-chain/@comment-175.156.32.28-20151104080603/@comment-26486243-20151111170525

You seem to be under the impression that base AA has little or no effect, and squadrons are wiped by a high-strength AACI.


 * 1) In case you're not aware, it's not even confirmed that the Tsu-class has access to AACI. Wikiwiki in particular believes it does not, though their substantiation for this claim is sketchy enough that I don't go around proclaiming that it doesn't. The vast majority of variable plane losses (which form the vast majority of losses) have always been attributed to fighter combat. Exceptions to this rule are Tsu and AD Hime. It is unclear which kills more because the strength of the Tsu/AD hime/AV hime AACIs, if they exist, are unknown. Losses to Tsu-elite's 168 AA value are 50% rate of 42% of bombers, and 50% rate of 18 bombers, where assignment is random - they add only 1 aircraft fixed loss to other ships targeting the bomber swarm. Where two Tsus exist in a fleet, the chance is 1/3, so the average loss is 7% plus 3 bombers per squadron to both Tsus. Aircraft losses at Air Superiority, however, can be as high as 40% of every bomber squadron under the previous fighter-combat theory, which would translate to an average loss of 20% per squadron. Should AACI not exist, losses attributable to fighters are more significant for every bomber slot with a size greater than 23, and Tsus are more significant for every bomber slot at 22 or lower size. AACIs will modify this in favour of the Tsus.


 * 1) In the specific case of E7, the effective AA stat of the weakest form of is 420 with a fleet AA bonus of 11 - so her AA had a 50% chance of shooting down 105% of any squadron assigned to her, and and a 50% chance of shooting down a fixed rate of 43 bombers (independent, so there's a 25% chance of survival). The medium form had the 50% rate of shooting down 120% (it's just absurd at this point) and 50% chance of shooting down 49 bombers, and hard's even higher, but those numbers are academic at this point as they already guarantee wipeout 75% of the time regardless of slot size.


 * 1) Plane assignment to each enemy ship is semi-random or fully random; it's not clear at the moment if flagships have a higher chance, but it is theoretically possible both for zero squadrons or all squadrons to be assigned to AD hime. Anything assigned to her will essentially die 25% of the time.


 * 1) Under these conditions multiple bomber squadrons can help as a bomber not assigned to AD hime has a higher survival rate, and even if multiple bombers on the same carrier are all assigned to AD hime by RNG, the overall chance the carrier gets to do shelling is 1-(0.25^n): 25% for 1 squadron, 43.75% for 2, 57.81% for 3 and 68.36% for 4 squadrons. The firepower-effect of adding squadrons also persists even if the squadron is eliminated - however, initial airstrike for that squadron will not occur. Whether or not >> squadrons still enable +critdmg% after they are wiped out is currently unknown. Therefore the only effective use of bombers in the AD-hime context is to enable bombing, add firepower and add critdmg%, of which two out of three definitely help regardless of wipeout or not, and the third is sketchy. These happen to be the functions T62s are good at, while what they're bad at (initial airstrike) is rendered far less relevant than it is on easier maps.


 * 1) There's a reason the recommended composition I linked from aircalc aims at Air Supremacy. Adding air power has zero effect if it doesn't change the AS status to AS+, and a very large effect if it does. This is a quantized change, not a continuous change.


 * 1) I've said this several times before, but which choice you make affects only yourself as Kancolle is single-player, by and large. I'm writing guides to inform people of mechanics, not to convince people to make any given choice. If you notice in the main article, I've never said anything negative about choosing to keep the fighter as a T52C, and if you notice in this entire thread, I've never said the T62FB form is any better or worse than the T52C form. They both have different uses - which use is more relevant to each person's specific fleet depends from person to person.