Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-26337865-20150930024129

Hayashi H wrote: CVA for the following reasons:

1. If Shinano appears she'll be CVB. There's a need to keep them distinct in the event that she has her own ship class. If she shares the class names of the other carriers instead we can call her CVA/CV instead. When the time comes. Plus, CV CVA CVB makes for a nice alphabetical progression.

2. CVA has a legacy usage in US Navy as Attack Carriers, and the high combat stats (and relatively low plane slots for air superiority) for both Taihou and Shoukaku Kaini A so far are consistent with this usage.

3. It's intuitive that CVA can be thought of as 'CV Armoured' like how CVL can be thought of as 'CV Light' in English; the Japanese term 装甲空母 also contains the same A (Kou/甲) that is also present in the name of Shoukaku Kaini A, since 装甲 refers to armour. Regardless of which language is used

Taihou was never a CVB and should never have been assigned the CVB tag.

P.S. For those stating that they should all be merged into CV because they share common routing, this is wrong becuase 1. In Map 2-2 EF route, armoured carriers do NOT share the same routing as standard carriers; 2. The game system itself classifies armoured carriers and standard carriers separately in the inventory list.

I object to CVA. By your definition of CVA, I would argue that Hiryuu kai ni would be classified as CVA due to high firepower and plane slot distribution. However, we need a classification that distinguishes carriers by their ability to attack in chuuha. I vote for CVR.