Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-33076004-20171008183017/@comment-27633922-20171022153519

AnimeFreak40K wrote: KancolleACP wrote: For easy do i need the full LBAA load out or can i sub in other planes? I have 1 but they are expensive to craft and i am still tring to stockpile supplies. That all really depends several things such as:

Is LBAS going to be a thing this event? Hard to say, this will be my second event, and while LBAS was a huge help in Summer, it was also large-scale...there may not be any LBAS.

If there is LBAS, you could end up having multiple airfields. For the Summer event, depending on what map we were on would determine how many LBAS fields we had...which went from 0-3.

So, assuming you LBAS is going to be a thing, keep in mind the following:

- Each LBAS field has 4 'slots' (not unlike an Aircraft Carrier), so you will need anywhere between 4 and 12 planes

- Any planes you can equip onto an aircraft carrier, you can put onto an airfield. This does include seaplanes. I do not know if this includes autogyros or Command Liason Aircraft (though I'm not sure why you would...)

- Each LBAS field has its own range, and that range is based entirely on the planes set on that airfield...BUT the range of each field is the *lowest* range out of all planes equipped on that field. This is important, as most Carrier-based aircraft have a rather short range; I don't know all the ranges of all aircraft, but that information is readily available here on the wiki.

This all being said, I would at least put in the effort to get yourself 1 or 2 LBAS aircraft before the event kicks off. But don't burn your resources trying to do this. Instead make that one of the things you go for in your daily crafting. After the event, I would then go ahead and get yourself several more. LBAS is a thing even is Small-scale events, Operation Hikari (a.k.a. Winter 2017 Event) was small scale and made use of LBAS, but no air raids were present (Participated in this event).

Autogyros and Liason Aircraft aren't usable on LBAS due to their ASW nature.

Also in terms of range he doesn't have much of a choice for the latter maps in terms of range, since he's going to need as much AA he can for final operations so Reppuu is the only aircraft with sufficient range that'll give him the edge against airpower, he can use the T0FM21 in conjunction with Type 96 LBAA and a Saiun to obtain a max. range of 8, but his LBAS air power will get shredded by enemy fighters.

Just hope that Tanaka will add at least one map without range restrictions so you can employ Shiden K2 and T0FM52 to strengthen you air power.