UMI YUKABA
"If I go away to sea, I shall return a corpse awash, if duty calls me to the mountain, a verdant will be my pall, thus for the sake of the Emperor, I will not die peacefully at home...."
If the Paul is a DB but also can fly from level 0 base, can it run bombing missions from those bases or must it be at a level 2 base?
I asked this same question a year or so ago. Couldn't get any response from the powers that be. Maybe you'll have better luck getting this answered.
Should be able to do so with any float plane from a level 0 base. If I recall I have bombed and torpedoed with cats from a level 0 base. Give it a test.
I know Akitsushima could lift aboard and maintain/repair one flying boat at a time, the ships was designed to do that. I still doubt the ship actually carried them anywhere, like seaplane tenders carry and operate float planes.