Talk:Spring 2015 Event/@comment-25977430-20150422150043/@comment-139.193.105.254-20150423055817

Dude, learn to read. NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT AIR SUPERIORITY!!

Basically, at level 80 and above you meet carriers that'll torp even battleships to red at the air combat phase. This is what AACI helps to counter. AS is another issue entirely.

And that leads to a major gripe of mine. A lot of ppl in this wiki seem to be horribly obsessed with AS as if carriers exist only for that, but all the older players remember a time when carriers were the primary damage-dealers of the fleet and the battleships were for tanking. There was a time when we laughed at the uselessness of Hotel Yamato and extolled the virtues of deadly Akagi to the heavens. Actually, come to think of it, that also happened in the anime, probably because it was written before all the changes to the gameplay in 2014. It annoys me to hell when newer players treat the CVs as Reppuu wagons, because they're not! We remember the old CarDiv 1, godsdamnit! And they were glorious! In the old days battleships lamented the passing of their age (as actually happened IRL) and carriers heralded the coming of theirs. Nowadays the roles have been reversed.

More importantly, though, AS is not required in most situations and the devs have been trying to hammer that into our heads by messing with the branching rules. 3-5 north is the prime example of this. Unless Hoppo has presents (or mochi) to dole out, I don't even bother bringing a carrier with me. Nowadays I've been switching my carriers back to the old config of two green, one red, one blue (or even one green, one red, one blue, saiun) and just protect the fleet during air combat phase with AACI. This way my carriers have gone back to damage dealing again and I can ignore Wo during the shelling phase. Only BWS can survive the wrath of level 92 Akizuki.