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AL Formidable is the Tier VII British carrier whose HE dive bombers hit hard for 9,500 per drop, so impact comes from picking targets and landing bomb runs rather than volume saturation. Her planes are tough enough to push strikes through contested AA.
Use spotting to find isolated ships and broadside or predictable targets, then choose between AP-bomb punishment and skip-bomb pressure. Her improved attack handling rewards patient setup; rushing drops or attacking dense AA wastes the precision buffs.
Her strength is bomb quality and attack control; bad approach angles waste the improved penetration, ricochet, and dispersion profile.
111000.0 hp engine, bottom decile of T7 CVs. Less headroom for re-accelerating from a stop and holding speed through turns.
19.0 mm best HE pen across secondary families, bottom quartile of T7 CVs. Shatters on plates peers' secondaries pen, so direct damage trails the brackets above.
AL Formidable is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Containers. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
AL Formidable’s commander direction boosts bomb and torpedo damage and offers Armoured Hangar for aircraft HP. Build around plane survivability, bomb consistency, and strike damage so the skip/AP bomb toolkit stays active.
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Where AL Formidable sits among Tier VII CVs (11 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
Not standouts for AL Formidable -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Automatic Damage Control Party∞ charges · 90 s reload · 60 s active
Automatic Fighter4 charges · 40 s reload · 150 s active · 5 km patrol radius All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.
Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (42×3.5×1) + (24×3.5×1) + (110×3.5×0.95) + (25×3.5×1) = 684. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Max dispersion = range (km) × 57 + 30. Each dispersion type sets its own slope; this is not a percentage applied to a standard baseline.4.5 km × 57 + 30 = 286.5 m.Sum across all secondary families of (per-side barrels × 60 / reload_s × alpha), where per-side barrels = mounts × barrels-per-mount / 2 (the guns that bear on one broadside target). Per-family: 8×2 114 mm (8/side) × 60/5 × 1700 = 163,200. Assumes every shell hits (real hit rate is lower; the Brawl matchup tool on the Compare page folds in dispersion + target armor).Maximum HE damage per shell across secondary HE families. Best on this ship: 1700 from the 114 mm family.Maximum per-shell fire chance across secondary HE families (before target fire resistance is applied). Best on this ship: 8% from the 114 mm family.Maximum HE armor penetration across secondary HE families (caliber × 1/6 for most nations; 1/4 for German/UK BBs). Shells whose pen falls under a plate's armor thickness shatter for 0 hull damage though fire chance still applies. Best on this ship: 19 mm from the 114 mm family.Balance updates affecting AL Formidable. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.
Every custom exterior AL Formidable can equip, from in-game data.
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