Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38821259-20190315232325/@comment-38821259-20190416092339

Actually, let's look closer at them.

A CT is there for when I get an inevitable replacement and go to haul it through PVP. That one expedition also doesn't hurt.

An Oiler is a non-negotiable part of the fleet. I've got the small cheap one, and I like it that way.

Akashi is Akashi. She does Akashi things. She's not really a ship, more of a base extension.

Akitsu Maru is... obscure. So obscure even the devs forget about her. She basically exists for that opportunity, to surprise-ram 24 Reppuus in some carrier's face. Unfortunately, she's Slow, which limits that window even more, and now battle carriers are a thing... If she sits out the next event too, I'm getting rid of her.

Akitsushima is odd. Legitimately useful on 6-4... and pretty much nowhere else. She's too fat for expeditions. Events sometimes want her, although I can't really remember the last time. That even a thing?

Other AVs are useful. MURDERTENDER is not an auxiliary, MURDERTENDER is a frontliner. Chitenders I kinda like more than I really should - they are Fast and have just enough stats and utility to be thrown into any mission and be useful. They also run #36 and proxy carriers for #15 when I'm bored. Mizuho exists to upgrade SPF. Considering my position on Screws, she may sit there for a while.

Taigei. There we go, a ship you are hard pressed to justify even existing. My younger self kept it in case the game decides to throw a routing curveball and I'd bat it right back. Now that I think of it, it's never gonna happen. Because A. A cursory skim of wikipedia reveals she was remodelled into CVL before Pacific War even started - she's not a historical ship. Admittedly she did sail around as a CVL, but that brings us to point B. In both forms her stats are so dreadful it basically outweighs any merit of bringing her - what's the point in skipping the first node when you can't pass the second because one of your ships keels over the moment something looks at her funny? And finally C. The game has no idea how to handle auxiliaries. So it treats them as frontline and makes you throw them at the enemy along with everything else. Taigei here is the worst offender: she's a sub squadron leader, meaning in this game she's the only ship on the surface heavier enemies can shoot. They will, a lot. She's made of tissue paper. It is easier to just bring 6 subs to 6-1 and be done with it in a couple runs. Taigei is a lie.

God damn it, this game can be so much better with so little effort! Will it hurt to throw together a support expedition for tenders to, you know, tend to seaplanes like how they were built to do? Same with oilers, and AS, and CVE, and whatever the hell else. But why do anything at all when ppl play it as is and give you moneys? But I digress.

TL/DR: Taigei sucks, Akitsumaru probably sucks, should boot both?