Carriers aircraft and AV

[goodwood]

I have just got into the air war of things, a couple of observations that I'm unsure or uncomfortable with,
1.    Built my first CV, but had install at a minimum 8" main battery.

2. The Almanac and other lists don't show AVs

3. AVs  air wings don't show up on the air group lists.

4. How do you change a/c on AVs?

[aeson]

1. Built my first CV, but had install at a minimum 8" main battery.

This is to reflect that ship designers were uncertain what to do with CVs early on and so tended to give them cruiser-grade armament - the Lexington and Saratoga carried eight 8" guns in four twin turrets and retained them into WWII while Akagi and Kaga carried six 8" guns in casemates and four in a pair of twin turrets just behind and to the sides of the mid-level flight deck and retained the casemated guns into WWII (the turreted guns were removed in the refits that gave the ships a single full-length flight deck), and even the smaller carriers had dedicated anti-surface armaments - Eagle carried nine 6" guns, Hermes carried six 5.5" guns, Hosho carried four 5.5" guns, and Langley carried four 5" guns for use against surface targets. You only need the guns on the first one you build and you can take them off in a later refit without penalty.

The 1.01 patch changed the requirement so that 20,000t or smaller carriers should only need to carry eight 6" guns, but it seems like there's a bug that won't let you install a 6" main battery during the conversion at the moment so you still need to use 7" or heavier guns.

4. How do you change a/c on AVs?

The game automatically assigns one of your non-obsolete floatplane scouts to your AVs. If you want to use a specific one, you can make the others obsolete in the 'Aircraft Types' menu and the game should change your AVs' aircraft out for the one you wanted over the next few turns.

[hmssophia]

1. Yes that's right. Early carriers were quite heavily armed bcos no on knew if they'd see combat.

[goodwood]

Thanks for the info, but why don't AV show in the Almanac?

[alsadius]

I see AV in my Almanac. I was going to ask if anyone had built them, but from the other questions clearly you have.