Talk:List of fleet standard aircraft carriers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-84.90.161.45-20141212234052/@comment-5032812-20150118062433

@OP:  There is a difference between what the AA of a carrier with planes and the AA of anything else does. ONLY the carrier plane AA will affect whether or not your fleet wins air combat. AA of any other plane does NOTHING, except reduce the power of the opening torpedo bomber strike. IE, if your main goal is air supperiority, having Akizuki in your fleet doesn't help at all. On the other hand, if you don't have the plane count to definitely win air superiority, you are going to lose a lot of planes and rack up your bauxite bill, so AA and AA cutins may actually be better if you aren't confident.

Regarding using CA(L)s in PVP. While it can be kind of expensive, if you are using your carriers for AA only, you really don't lose that many planes. I use carriers a lot, because pvp is great experience, and I've never really had a real bauxite problem. On the other hand, I only use my carriers as AA batteries, and they basically never have an attack loadout.