Talk:List of fleet standard aircraft carriers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-118.100.192.59-20150123100735/@comment-5032812-20150123104220

Depends on what you want to do with them. Each carrier has different plane counts for different slots. Plane count matters for fighters (green) and torpedo bombers (blue), but doesn't matter for divebombers (red), or recon (yellow). Generally, carriers work best as anti air or as torpedo sweepers. Anti air setups will destroy enemy planes, winning air superiority and neutralizing the enemy opening torpedo strike. For this setup, just put a bunch of fighters in the carrier's big slots. Torpedo sweepers are good for clearing out enemy weak targets like destroyers or light cruisers, allowing your stronger ships to target real threats. For this, just put a bunch of torpedo bombers in the carrier's big slots. The carrier is the one ship type who's equipment loadout is pretty heavily dependant on what you want them to do, so get a good variety of planes, and change accordingly.