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Choose Equipment

This is a guide to complete all set-up tips on the wiki. While set-up guide recommend type of equipment this guide give the generals rules to choose the best equipment of a certain type.

In this guide when talking about equipment "stat" it's in a wider range than usual for the following reason:

• When talking about a stat of an equipment this include most of the time Fit bonus (both visible and invisible) and Improvement stats.
• Some modifier may be include

For the purpose of this guide the equipment "stats" have been dispatch into 3 categories:

• Primary stats: This is the stats that influence the effectiveness of the equipment in its main purpose
• Secondary stats: This is stats that influence the effectiveness of the equipment in other purpose than its main one.
• Bonus stats: these stats that doesn't influence the effectiveness of the equipment.

The rules for choosing an equipment are as follow:

• Take the equipment with the highest primary stats
• If two equipments have the same primary stats take the one with the highest Secondary stats
• Bonus stats can be ignored when choosing an equipment.

Equipment stats category
Main armament
Icon	Equipment types	Primary stats	Secondary stats	Bonus stats	Note
	Main Gun		None	All other stats	for smal caliber Fit Bonus generaly are higher than base stats For Medium and Large caliber overwheight penalty play a major role when choosing a gun
	High-angle Guns		None		Having an good AACI takes priority over stats
	Anti-Aircraft Guns				Despite its stats the RLK2 is the best on certain ships Having an good AACI takes priority over stats
	Torpedoes				For Sub torps, Late model ones unlock a better Cut-in
	Midget Submarines
	Anti-submarine Weaponry		Armor Penetration		Having OASW takes priority over stats (Link?) When having OASW Synergy takes priority over stats
Aircraft
Icon	Equipment types	Primary stats	Secondary stats	Bonus stats	Note
	Dive Bombers	AA resist	❱❱	All other stats	If the main purpose of your ship is ASW then naturaly become the primary stats
	Fighter-Bombers and Jets	AA resist
	Torpedo Bombers	AA resist	❱❱		If the main purpose of your ship is ASW then naturaly become the primary stats
	Fighters		❱❱
	Reconnaissance Aircraft
	Land Based Bomber	/	❱❱ AA resist		Despite good base stat are the worst due to the reduced plane slot The main stats is against ships and against Installation
	Land Based ASW Bombers		❱❱
	Interceptor	Air power ❱❱			Air power depend of On Hard event map in air defence having 2 Rocket Interceptor takes priority.
	Seaplanes Recon
Bomber	Seaplane Bombers	AA resist
	Seaplane Fighters	❱❱
	ASW planes
Other Equipment
Icon	Equipment types	Primary stats	Secondary stats	Bonus stats	Note
	Surface Radar			All other stats
	Air Radar
...	Anti-intallation Equipment	Anti-installation modifiers
	Extra Armor
	Engines				The of is negligeable and shouldn't be the main purpose of equiping it.
All Other Equipment		Is generaly a case by case basis, the stats are just irrelevent or simply there like one or two equipment of this type