I doubt that I'll ever have PP's to spend on SC's & PB's much less Aux vessels. Just not gonna happen. Too many other higher priorities.
Disclaimer: I am in no way considered a vet with this game.
Make no mistake, I never meant to change all those PBs in the fleet. I do glance them over and pick out the handful of combat commanders they already have assigned though. They are far too numerous and far too weak of a ship for me to bother with changing leaders. I was mentioning things like AMC, SCs, a select few CMs, some of the PC craft, LSDs, the APDs, and not to mention a good review of all the actual combat ships.
Seems to me, with the cost of a full ID being roughly 1800 PPs, we are looking at (being very generous here) say 600 PPs for these *aux* ships I mention. So we are discussing 1/3 of a full ID in question here? Is it the timing of this cost to you that is not appealing?
I would dare suggest to you, try and *dress up* a small number of these small ships and watch their crews and ship performance rise somewhat quickly. To me, it is worth preventing the small ship losses due to all those early subs harassing the lanes.
>>Back on topic, I recently *adopted* a CS into the KB to harass what remains of Singapore's defenses. I chose one of the smaller ones as the 24s are still moving around adjusting base float plane sizes. The crew is all in the high 50s and low 60s in ASW and about the same for Nav Search. Just waiting for a little more Jake production to upgrade them all from Petes.