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So I've been trying to read up on this, and yes I understand that we are hopefully going to be seeing marked improvement in the air war in a few days, but I still am having a hard time understanding how it currently works.

If, as i understand it, CAS and NAV have one attack per turn; is it one shot per plane or per wing? If I have 50 planes in a wing or 200 planes is it the same damage or 4x the damage?

There seems to be great discussion, and opinion, on how large a wing for various types of planes should be, but is there a set rule of thumb for each type, (other than CAS which is 3x the number of units you are attacking?)
 

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Long time ago (was in 1.1.0 I think) I decided to set in stone my wing size and choose 30 planes wings, for all types. It work pretty well in SP even if it need a lot of mouse clicks :p
Carrier's wing are not that size, I always go for 1/3 Ftr, 2/3 Nav, so it depend on the carrier level, hangar level(or deck, can't remember) and naval designer.

That say, it's probably not minmaxed, and if I understand correctly, 1.4 will be the end of the effect of wing size on air fight efficiency so ...