Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170829010745/@comment-2605:6001:F440:E900:E5CD:B044:84B0:C43A-20170910203255

Vcharng wrote: Tormented Sufferer wrote:

NakedApronAlliance wrote: i just hope sara retains her beautiful plane slots distribution.

it'll be sad if she gets a 3 or 6 "saiun slot" I'd have preferred the oppsite. Say, Taihou-style 36-24-24-6, with 3 slots large enough to accommodate bombers, as 20+ slots are considered "safe" against Tsu-class AA over several nodes with these fuckers present: they more often than not can tank the AA better than sub-20 slots. Following this logic, 36-24-24-6 will allow for 3 attack and 1 fighter squadrons, 1 attack and 3 fighter squadrons or anything in-between; while 36-18-18-18 only allows the latter. well actually the opposite will be things like the Dragons. Taiho and Akagi/Kaga are somewhere in between.

The current hangar distribution is based on Sara's 1943 historical layout, being 36 fighters, 36 dive bombers, and 18 torpedo bombers. The 36 dive bombers are divided into two groups in KC.

So if Tanaka chose to follow the history again, in Feburary 1944 her layout was 36+24+8, and in April that year it was 27+24+18, either way, it's going to be a bit smaller than her current layout. As I said in an earlier post her plane distribution was

32 night fighters

21 - 24 day time F6Fs

14 - 18 TBM-3s with radar

and then like 2 reconssciance planes. Air groups weren't static in the USN and could even change from day to day.