Talk:Shoukaku/@comment-115.77.226.25-20150925141510/@comment-119.56.119.221-20150926132923

"but it's a game"

Yeah, and you would have continued to call fast battleships "battlecruisers" had the devs not added Bismarck into the game. There is but one reason to stick to the USN hull classification codes, and that reason is consistency.