Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-119.56.123.4-20150927090934

Essex was not armoured, yes, but she was bigger than armoured Illustrious and Implacable. She'd be more of an actual CVB than they would.

"Why are we using the Yanks' standard on the Japs' ships for starters?"

Unless you want to be horribly inconsistent, this kind of thing is inevitable. Not to mention that if the devs are going to add in ships from all navies, they're going to have to deal with that, too.