Talk:Exercises (PvP)/@comment-11780006-20141109081431/@comment-25314696-20141109085702

You would think it works that way. It doesn't always though, unfortunately.

You can, and will, run across a number of admirals that load up their PvPable carriers with all greens (often Reppus and better), that or Akashi is working her magic and they didn't remove their equipment. Be prepared to lose around 200 or more bauxite if you have your own Reppus and only obtain parity (ie: no artillery spotting notification). If you lose air superiority all together? Expect somewhere around 400 bauxite down the drain.

You can use CVs in PvP, just be careful since bauxite is the slowest to accumulate. Either be certain you can stack up in air superiority, or limit your planes to a single cheap option in the smallest slot, then hope enough survive to where your carrier can still participate during shelling. Even if you lose 'em all, it won't take much to replace cheap planes. Toss anything you wish in the other slots, anti-air guns aren't a bad choice. You can even do all anti-air guns, they will be unable to attack whatsoever... but the initial defense is nice.

Or just strip them of all equipment to begin with. They'll be dead weight, but if you can still win? Might as well.

Lastly, it matters if you "refresh" a PvP battle when dealing with carriers. Once the opening air strike is finished, those planes are removed from your carriers even if you refresh the game. You will be unable to restock lost planes until they can resupply fuel or ammo. Essentially, you will have a gimped CV/CVL until you waste resources and morale to force a resupply.

Best of luck!