It's not gradual if you use AA guns on your battleship. Any time you're not in range of
the enemy and dodging shells, shoot at planes. You'll make 6-10 experts a battle that
way. Plus you'll be blinding the enemy.

And remember, the answer is not Experts OR Vets, the answer is Experts AND Vets. And
boosting (premium). But don't bother to boost a sailor with less than 80 vets. Your
money is better spent on vets and experts until your sailor clears 80 vets, as you get
more skill for your money that way. (120% of a very low number is still a very low number.)

vets. you get experts gradually anyways

Range is not determined by gunners ability/stats. Range is a factor of the guns themselves.

The only difference is percieved range, in other words your spread is bad enough that
shells scatter and create an impression of more range.

use the vet packs as much as possible as i have 2 gnrs one has 150 vets the other
120 and the range is lower with the guy with the 120 so YES vets work

I have another take on the situation. If you don't have many vets -
Let's say under 40 on your gunners, you should buy the expert
pack and convert them to vets. Too bad the conversion event is
over but if you have premium at least, it would be possible to get
2-3 converts per 100 experts.

I believe you'd better buy vets always
even though you get more extra ability for the same money with expts.. extps are
free in the end..

by lvl 90 your gunners will have roughly 50-100 recruits left wether or not you put
expts in them now. I understand you want fast improvement so you'll choose for the
expertpacks but the money is better spend if you buy vetpack.

Conclusion:
buying expts instead of vets =
sissy - not looking forward - coughcoughstupidcough because you'll buy vets
anyways if you're at lvl 85-90

buying vets instead of expts =
smaller immediate growth in ability but way better in the long run - well spending
your money

buying n .one =
smart and most economic - making NF do stunts like nowadays everydaypartyevent
so you won't cut your vains and give up the game (===> SD gets broke)

buying both vets and expts =
only real solution for your problem, just vets or just expts will not make a
immediately noticable difference

buying 2 boosts =
a bit more money you have to spend but best option in my opinion...the expts come
free and with an event sometime somewhere somehow you can easily get 80 vets or
more for free and without massmurdering expterts

k thanks

Each vet is worth 4 experts. So 20 vets would mean 80 experts, which is no where near
as close as 200 experts.