Talk:Type 94 Anti-Aircraft Fire Director/@comment-139.0.127.22-20141203200815/@comment-79.98.35.23-20141206025740

I don't know if this thing provides any hidden bonuses to AA outside of the cut-ins, but I have noticed that a couple of battleships or heavy cruisers with these things with an AA-centric loadout are actually pretty good at protecting the fleet from enemy air threats. Remember that outside Akizuki most of the larger ships have more AA firepower than the destroyers with the added bonus of more slots to give them extra AA equipment. It works particularly well against nodes that rely upon large amounts of carriers as AA fires once per enemy plane slot rather than simply once, so against nodes such as 3-5 Hoppo node you can clear out the majority of enemy aircraft and the remaining aircraft typically only do scratch damage to my fleet, meanwhile a Nagato-class with only a 46cm triple for surface combat is still able to wreck most things in a single hit. Not having any weak link crit magnets in the fleet also helps.

Now if only we could get a high-angle secondary gun with an inbuilt AA fire director...