Well I guess I will do a quick breakdown of the enemy fleet and what we are currently facing.
Total number of known enemy warships: 19
Types of warships:
1
Re-Class, (Aviation Battleship, very tough and Is capable of carrying aircraft in large numbers, at least according to the wiki)
3
Ta class, (Fast Battleship, can carry a few recon aircraft but that is about it. Pretty tough but not has much as the Re-class.)
4
Wo class, (Aircraft Carrier, Interesting is not capable of carrying as many aircraft as the Re-Class.)
5
chi class, (Torpedo Cruiser, Appears to be heavily dependent on their Torpedoes, at least when looking at the wiki.)
6
I class, (Destroyer, Appears that Torpedoes are their main means of causing damage but other then that, not a lot to write home about besides them being there to be cannon fodder.)
Our Advantages:
Apparent element of surprise: As far as we can tell the enemy fleet is completely unaware of us and is only thinking it will be facing the American Convoy. If we retain the element of surprise we should be able to inflict heavy damage in the first round or two of combat.
Lack of Formation and Discipline: According to recon the Enemy Fleet is not in any sort of formation and is just heading in the direction of the American Convoy. Seems the Re-Class is only one in command and does not appear to care to try and correct the lack of formation. Assuming this is not corrected by the enemy by the start of the battle we may be to use the lack of formation to easily destroy more enemy warships in the surprise attack with them being unable to cover each other along with simply cutting off individual enemies from the rest of their fleet and quickly destroying them.
Apparently absolutely
No anti-air coverage: From what we have been told the Enemy fleet has no anti-air coverage this may mean that most of the enemy ships replaced their AA guns for more cannons and have disregarded the threat of enemy aircraft or they are very confident in their own aircraft. I would recommend taking out the enemy Aircraft carriers first as to attempt to gain air superiority. With the Carriers destroyed we will only have to worry about aircraft from the Re-class.
Possible advantage:
Modern jet aircraft: We right now have a wing of Modern jet bomber and a Wing of Modern Jet fighters. While it will remain to be seen I think if WW2 aircraft can go toe to toe with Abyssal aircraft then Modern jet fighters should have little trouble with the Abyssal aircraft, but this is once again remains to be seen.
-Also the QM said the Jet aircraft will be in range for the upcoming battle.
SAM Missiles: We have recently gotten SAM missiles that will work against Abyssal aircraft, Although I'm not sure if our ship-girls will be capable of using them. Will need to hear from the QM about it.
American convoy: Depending on what the Americans bring with them in the convoy and if we can convince them not to shoot at us we may not have to rely only on ourselves for the fight.
Re-class is the leader: As far as we can tell the Re-class is in command, it is possible that if we take it out then the rest of the enemy fleet will break and run. Only problem with this is that the Re-class will be quite tough to take out. So it likely will be better to simply focus on taking out most of the rest of the enemy fleet before trying to focus on her.
Our disadvantages:
Lack of numbers: Fair chance we will be able to correct this by the time of the battle but we will be mostly working with cruisers and only have one battleship although a very good one. We will likely take heavy losses if we are unable to retain element of surprise or are unable to cause heavy damage to the enemy fleet in the surprise attack.
American convoy is unprepared: At this time the American Convoy is unaware of the incoming threat and it is unknown how many warships are in the American Convoy or what kind of warships. We can try and warn them ahead of time but at high risk and with the possibility that they will not believe us. So at this time we are unable to coordination with them.
Protection mission: Our main goal is to protect the American convoy, otherwise this battle will be a loss for us even if we destroy the Abyssal fleet.
This is just may thoughts on the matter, Feel free to point out any thing i missed or did not consider. I did not make much comment on the stats of the enemy fleet because I do not know how the QM will stat the enemy ships.
I hope this will be helpful to everyone.
