Talk:Spring 2016 Event/@comment-116.87.19.230-20160507190400/@comment-27265134-20160507200704

Using Air Defense instead of Sortie is a viable option if you keep having issues with your bases taking damage. The Air Defense adds the AA from that group to all other groups. And you shoot down more planes durring the raids. However, you still will need fighters in your leading sortie group 1 or 2. Thus, your overall attack strength on your bombing runs drops. For example you put an Air Defense with 4 fighters/intercepters in it, you lose a good amount of damage.

Side note, I would recommend Rank7 on all your bombers. Its the same as the ranking system for carriers, you get 50% bonus damage when you have all rank7 bombers in a squad. To rank them up fast sortie 4 dds to E-5 and drop all your sorties on node A. Clear it and retreat. Do this until they are rank 7.