Talk:World 4/@comment-26410405-20151215205352/@comment-24980562-20151216143705

Or you could just use 3 CA(V) 3 CVB which will destroy almost all escort ships at the boss node with the opening airstrike alone. Not even Ru Kai is safe from it. Then they'll take out the rest, which means that by the end of the 1st shelling phase Wanko usually is the only one who's still alive.

Seriously, the Crane Sisters are OP as fuck. Engagement forms and the ammo penalty hardly matter for them because even without any equipment they already exceed the damage cap. Heck, they can sink Wanko in day battle. And Ru Kai won't survive against them either, not even when they're 中破'd.

Example: Shoukaku Kai-2 A has a raw shelling Firepower of 160.
 * Give her Tenzan Murata and Ryuusei 601, then it's 202 FP.
 * She has 161 FP in Head-On, which is the worst engagement you can get because one of your carriers should always have Saiun equipped.
 * She has 141 FP in Parallel engagement when 中破'd.
 * She has 113 FP in Head-On engagement when 中破'd.
 * Subtract 20% from those numbers when at the boss due to ammo penalty

See those numbers? She and Zuikaku (who is only slightly weaker) basically hit as almost hard as the Yamato-class with a nice bonus in form of an opening airstrike that lays waste to pretty much everything. And those are just the basic stats. Add Aircraft Proficiency to the equation and even in the worst case scenerio (i.e. 中破'd & Head-On Engagement) they still deal absurd amounts of damage.

tl;dr

Who needs BB(V)s in 4-5 when carriers, especially CVBs, are so much better?