Thread:Quilue/@comment-32924908-20180728233304/@comment-32009136-20190213233015

No, sadly the only time an AACI can trigger twice in the same node are Aerial Combat Nodes.

Regarding the effectiveness of the AACI set-ups of Suzutsuki and Kasumi K2B:

They are pretty different, since Kasumi has one of medium strength, shooting down an additional 5 planes while multipliying her effective AA stat (the calculated one, not the one shown in-game) by 1.4. This is her best set-up with one High-Angle Gun, one Air Radar and one AA-Gun. Suzutsuki (and the other Akizuki-class DDs) will reach 8 additional planes shot down and multipliying the effective AA-stat by 1.7, which is one of the strongest AACIs of the game (the other one being the AACI of Maya K2). This is her best AACI set-up with 2 High-Angle Guns and a Radar (in this special case it does not matter if it is an Air Radar or surface Radar).

This makes Suzutsukis set-up better because of several reason. One: the capability of the AACI itself and second: her ability to use a night battle Double Attack with her AACI set-up, something which Kasumi can not do with her best set-up (except when the AA-Gun is mounted in a Reinforcement Expansion).

The main reason why the sizeable difference is hard to see lies in the mechanics of the game. The flat bonus to planes shot down is more effective against smaller plane slots of the enemy carriers, so the difference is easier to see when going up against a light carrier like the Nu-class, while carriers like the Wo Kai (and player carriers in PvP) and similar ones have plane slots of a size that makes it hard to shoot down all the planes. The second reason is the multiplier of the effective AA-stat and its effects. In general a higher effective AA-stat will result in more planes shot down, but since there are two different chances involved, this often gets drowned by RNG, making it less obvious. Especially when keeping in mind, that even one plane on a carrier is enough to deal full damage during the shelling phase. Which means, that the main difference between those two destroyers is usually only observable during the opening airstrike (unless all planes have been shot down), since shooting down more planes will reduce damage here.

In short (and without going into the actual mechanics and mathematics involved): the Akizuki class destroyers are the more effective AACI destroyer, by AACI stats and usability of the equipment set-up. But due to the game mechanics, the difference tends to be less obvious when going up against enemy carriers with larger slots (Wo-class and PvP).

Once you feel that you have enough viable AACI destroyers, i would recommend remodelling Kasumi back to her K2 version, since she is a very hard hitting destroyer in this remodel. And this during both day and night.

And yes, i would like to see a special gun for Amatsukaze, although her historical guns, the 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount C K2, are already in game. At least it gives decent equipment bonuses when equipped on the Kagerou-class.