Thread:Cantkorre/@comment-232062-20160522143826/@comment-232062-20160525170900

Ah ok, max that sk2. you're still going to need  more reppuu for LBAS and to max those.

If you use that 3repp 3sk2 plane layout on Kaga Shoukaku and either Chitose or Chiyoda you'll pull 385w/o saiun and 335 with saiun in the CVLs slow slot.

When picking carriers and their plane load out you need to play around on as calculators to figure out who's slots best fit the AS values you need to get without sacrificing bombers, and the first two slots on carriers give crit bonus so trying to avoid using those slots for fighter cover is important.

By the distrabution of plane slots you can see ships like Kaga and Akagi are better suited to carrying heavy fighter loads, oh course it depends completely on the specific situation, but their somewhat low planecount in the first two slots makes them vunrable to aaci and strong fleet air defence rolls which can result in 0 bombers in those slots which mean no attacking. The rate at which fighters and bombers are/can be lost are very different. Assuming you are getting at least AS fighters are plenty safe in slots with a low plane count, and >>'d planes get a flat fp bonus ontop of the normal fp they give depending on the slotsize. Ships like Hiryuu and Souryuu K2 with their big slot at #2 but verry low 3&4's very low with the 4th slot just begging for a recon plane/FCF/SCAMP are pretty much purpose built attack carriers. Shoukaku and Zuikaku kai and their super flat plane distrabution can go either way.

That's just the gist of carrier layouts, like I said, It all depends on the specific situation when it comes to who and what you use. You can always use girls you like, but sometimes you just gotta get shit done first.