Talk:General Discussion/@comment-14810231-20140615170349/@comment-139.193.105.119-20140617160028

Air supremacy doesn't mean none of your planes gets shot down. What it means is that you have a chance of shooting down up to 80% of the enemy planes participating in the air combat phase, but the enemy also has a chance to shoot down up to 40% of yours. This is important to note for anyone planning on putting Type-62s on Hiryuu kai ni's last slot. DON'T! Type-62s actually participate in the air combat phase, and there being only 3 of them they run a very high risk of being wiped out.

As for bombers, the AC phase is immediately followed by the Air Attack phase (but in the animation both are rolled into one). The result of the AC phase is a factor in the calculation of the number of bombers lost in the AA phase. The other factor is enemy fleet ship-based AAA. In other words, even if you have dedicated bombers that don't participate in the AC phase and manage to get air supremacy, you can still lose bombers to enemy AAA. This is why Hiryuu kai ni's last slot is better used for either a radar or a detachment of Saiuns. Don't put your bombers there. They'll get wiped out (I tested this for kicks).