Lolz, honestly i don't think stacking seaman ability would be useful because, since CV6 has 9 supports and you can have a maximum of 8 pilots (Which you should have), the last one's only for seaman if you wanna boost your FP abilities or a medic if you wanna keep as many saliors as you can lol. Not sure about wat the others think :)

well the main reason im asking is because Im US and have 6ft and 3bombers and I do plan on getting 2 more fighters and i already have 2 fighter based seaman on the gun slots on my york. Im also leveling a us bb crew and dont plan on using the guns on my cv so i have two open slot for seamen or repair.

I was going to make a quick reply on this earlier, stating definitively that seamen have diminishing returns when you have more than one, but I decided to find the source where I read that before, and, well, I couldn't. Most of what I found was old speculation.

I would still avoid using more than one seaman, though. I'm leveling an SN CV myself, and here's what I've got:

Six fighters, four bombers
Pair of 10/12 gunners (for AA or HH)
A 12/9 fighter/bomber seaman
A 10/12 fighter/bomber seaman
One each: engineer, restorer, repairman

This gives me the most flexibility in the future. I also have a few other sailors, partly because I have another SN crew (SS) and partly because when you're leveling 18 sailors, leveling a few more isn't going to take much longer, and you can sell them later on for extra credits.

For now I only intend to use one seaman at a time (which one depends on how many fighters I will have loaded). We'll see how much use I get out of AA/HH, it may be the case that my attention will be spread too thin to make good use of the gunners and I may end up sticking with two of the eng/rest/rep supports in their place.

It's not a definitive answer, but it's at least protected somewhat against bad decisions since I can change the crew makeup.


If someone comes along and knows for sure if a second seaman will be less effective than the first, I have a question for them: would an elite fighter seaman and elite bomber seaman boost a mixed F/B CV properly, or would the game pick one seaman to be the "main" one for all the pilots?

well like i said i do have 7 elite fighter and I will be adding one more and I have 3 elite bombers and will add one more. I do have other USA crew as I'm leveling a US battleship so I do have gunners, repairs, engines, ect. but I did make two elite fighter based seamen due to hearing that two was better then one. but I do want to make sure. Also like you said even if I don't need it I can always sell it so its no loss to me weather its good or bad. but due to the fact that many people in my fleet either don't know or don't care or I have yet to ask, I thought I would post here.

so still no absolute yes or no on this yet? i have been asking around in game and still haven't had any consistent answers