Actually a fleetmate and I did some APA testing during a harbor assault, (WHen it
just started up and Tokyo was undefended).

What we discovered is as follows.

The Potential of the sailor, modified by Experts and Vets determines the damage.
More is better obviously.

Having additional Marines or Paratroopers on your boat beyond the first does NOT
increase the damage done to the harbor.

HOWEVER, having additional Marines or Paratroopers does give you more total
attack available. My friend had only one marine, I had 4. His marines were almost
completely blown through after 5 minutes. I myself was still at 80%.

Does that help any?

Don't load more than 1 Landing force or paratrooper per APA/Carrier.
You only need one.

If you load mroe than one:
You do less damage overall because you run out of troops faster
- troop number is based on Ship DP, not number of landing forces on your ship
But the damage you can do is applied faster (troops land faster)

If you load one:
Damage is done slower, unloading is slower
Damage is maximized because unloading take a long time.

1 troop per ship.

More sailors = faster damage, not so much sure about more damage overall. For
setups APAs are pretty much useless for actually assaulting the harbour as harbour
assaults are capped and it's generally more useful to fit a BB than an APA.

how many sailors do i need

more sailors = more dmg?

boat setup?

lol, from our testing.
-DP/SD has no effect on your DPS with landing forces. Meaning one landing force
isn't gonna deal more DPS than one landing force with 900 sd.
-More landing force will give your more dps, though probably not linearly.

No clue if this is entirely true but it seemed that while you do more dps, you also use
up the gauge alot faster. Which might possibly mean that more landing/higher
ability might only increase your dps and not overall damage, but never really had a
chance to do enough testing to come to a conclusive answer.

FAIL. Wrong picture....

As far as I know:
*The higher the more damage they do.
*The amount of damage they do also depends on the amount of DP that the APA (I believe CV
too?) has left.
*Their abilities do not stack, 1 is as good as 3.
*Airlift forces need a plane flown by Divebombers.

http://i39.tinypic.com/f2ki1u.jpg


here ya go


scroll down and u will see the info on'em


landing force is launched by APA (?)


and airlift force is launched by CV using transport planes

they are both used to capture enemy HQ in the harbor tile