1. Your fleet must obtain <span style="color:green;">'''Air Supremacy (AS+)'''</span> or <span style="color:green;">'''Air Superiority(AS)'''</span>.
1. Your fleet must obtain <span style="color:green;">'''Air Supremacy (AS+)'''</span> or <span style="color:green;">'''Air Superiority(AS)'''</span>.
* For details on air control states, please see [[Aerial Combat#Fighter Combat|Aerial Combat]].
* For details on air control states, please see [[Aerial Combat#Fighter Combat|Aerial Combat]].
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* Where you fail the [[Combat#Detection|detection phase]] and no aerial combat phase is triggered, you will not be able to activate artillery spotting.
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* Where you fail the [[Combat#Detection|detection phase]] and no aerial combat phase is triggered, you will not be able to activate carrier cut-in attacks.
* You will need any plane that can contest [[Aerial Combat#Air Control|air control]] in order to contest air superiority.
* You will need any plane that can contest [[Aerial Combat#Air Control|air control]] in order to contest air superiority.
** The exception to this is if an enemy fleet with 0 air power triggers an aerial combat phase. You will default to Air Supremacy.
** The exception to this is if an enemy fleet with 0 air power triggers an aerial combat phase. You will default to Air Supremacy.