Clarification of Reinforcement & Upgrade of CVs

[canuckgamer]

A full strength a CV has a 3 strength points. It can also have up to 6 air strength points. Using the formula for a Japanese CV at Carrier Operations 1942 I calculate that the reinforcement cost per SP would be:

624/3 X .25 = 52 per ship strength point.

To advance to the next level it would cost 10% of the production cost of a CV at Carrier Operations 1943.

What about the 6 strength points of air? How is the cost per air strength calculated? I was thinking that each ship SP reinforced adds 2 air but then wondered about the air being an odd number when you choose to reinforce.

However this is calculated I assume it works the same way for WPE.

[AlvaroSousa]

Air is automatically replenished when the CV is in port.

It is assumed both sides aren't idiots and properly train enough pilots to fill the carriers.

Planes are cheap, pilots are expensive. Since there is no real measure of how to use production for pilots it is abstracted.

To make it "historical" for the Japanese where they have crappy pilots near the end of the war would make for a very frustrating situation for the Axis player since both sides have hindsight. The hindsight advantage lies with the Allies though.