Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25189003-20141012162041/@comment-25289127-20141014235549

@Tyakomou

What Kevadu wrote there is actually wrong respectively he made a big mistake.

He wrote: " First of all, both fighter power and opening attack damage are based on the square root of the plane count, rounded down.  So before plane losses that's 4/4/4 vs. 4/4/5."

But actually fighterpower is the squareroot of the slot, then multiplied by fighterpower, after that rounded down and at last all slots are added up. Therefore it does matter if you have slots of 18 or 24 planes. Root 18 is only 4.242, multiplied with a Reppuu's fighterpower that's 42.42 and then rounded down, so 42. Root 24 is 4.898, multiplied with 10 that's 48.98, so 48. A difference of 6 points. Now do this with two or three carriers and you have a difference in fighterpower by 10 to 20 points!

If you only use a Type 96 fighter, you would barely notice it, as that's only a multiplication by 2. However as you can see with a Reppuu the difference is important. If you use even stronger planes then the difference will get even bigger. With other words: The stronger the fighter is, the more important is the slotsize!