Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20151013050733/@comment-26466466-20151015015328

So much legend and hype on Shinano when she was a absolutely dreadful carrier. IJN Shinano went 3-5 knots slower than your standard fleet carrier, carried a little over half the number of planes as the IJN Kaga (90 planes - unarmoured), USS Enterprise (90 planes - unarmoured) and HMS Implacable (81 planes - an armoured deck with a catapult). The only thing Shinano has going for her is she was supposed to be a Yamato-class battleship.

Currently available Shoukaku and futue Zuikaku are where the hype should be with their Kai Ni A designs that are very similar to the Implacable-class CVs with their armoured decks and catapults.