Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-64.233.173.151-20151010103748/@comment-26486243-20151028065355

1. Skilled lookout increases cut-in rate by 5% on the ship that equips it. No idea where he got his 20% from. There's suspicions based on torpedo cut-in tests at the moment that this 5% applies pre-luckcap as well, while the other two boosts (searchlight and starshell) apply it post-luckcap, so you might want to place the lookout only on ships with 55 luck or below.

2. T96's greatest weakness is that is can be equipped only on battleships, and most battleships can do cut-ins only with 3 primary guns. If they hold a searchlight to boost cut-in while holding 3 primary guns, they can't also hold a scout plane to allow for Artillery Spotting, so their firepower is wasted in the day. Thus only Bismarck Drei is capable of using this effectively to boost her own cut-in, as she is capable of using torpedo cut-ins - she still sacrifices the daytime firepower like everyone else, but at least her cut-in's power is a lot higher, and it uses a better luck mod than the triple gun cutin type does. In all other cases it should be mounted on a battleship that doesn't use a cut-in setup.

3. When T96 is used together with a normal searchlight, only the ship in the slot closer to the flagship will activate its searchlight. They do not stack. Testing is underway to determine if cut-in rates are better, but the previous estimate was an effect size of 5% - identical to that of normal searchlights.

4. T96 draws more aggro, but also increases enemy accuracy. If using it you should be prepared for the battleship using it to be taihaed in exchange for increasing the chances all other ships get to fire at their best health state. It does not guarantee everything shoots the battleship with it though, it only increases the chances.

5. There's no point using triple torpedoes on Myoukou. Her base stat sum is 168. Adding 2x 4* quint O2 at +14 torpstat each and a 9* searchlight at +3 firepower, she has a total of 199 pre-special attack firepower, or 298 attack in the torpedo cut-in. You might as well add another piece of equipment instead - a t32 radar to boost her accuracy, a Star Shell to boost post-cap cut-in rate, an anti-torpedo bulge or engine to increase survivability and whatnot. If you really wanted exactly 300 you could boost the quint torpedoes further, but this really doesn't change much in the grand scheme of things.