Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27011882-20160107081447/@comment-27114288-20160108012414

The Saiun is actually one of the most important things here. You dont want the Red T encounter versus submarines because it will fuck up your damage potential. Thats why the CVL+Saiun is pretty much mandatory. (CVL can hit subs, CV cannot - thats how the game works, just accept it ;) ) If you get a Red T at the Boss, there is a high chance that you will not be able to kill it, unless all your ships hit the Boss FS (which is unlikely).

The BBV will let your 2 CL shoot twice and thats all you need because there wont be more than 4 enemy subs.

CL usually onehit all the subs in 1-5 if they have at least 1x sonar and 1x depth charger equipped. More ASW is always better of course, but even with very few pieces of ASW gear, as long as you have the Saiun and 2CL you are good to go.

I sometimes forget to equip planes on my BBV or I forget to switch out the planes on my CVL for ASW planes and I still get S Ranks  only   because the 2 CL kill everything. So yeah, the CVL/BBV damage is negligible. Dont care unless you have Akitsumaru ASW Planes and get 20+ ASW on your CVL/BBV.