Talk:Taihou/@comment-24276158-20131226185634/@comment-1482018-20131226191030

I may be wrong on couple points but this is how much I know.

In real life, hybrid carriers & battleships (aka BBV) turned out to be a failure because they had to increase its load in order to be able to be fitted with planes and BB guns. Naturally this didn't turn out so well because the weight made the BB slow, along with the fact that the recoil from BB guns were too much for the planes in the dock to handle, so they had to decrease its range to lessen the recoil. So ultimately, short range with slow speed, but with a large crew (since it was still a battleship) forced Ise class to be pretty much useless. (Fuso class was worse because it also had worse equips) In contrast CVB had a solid design of sacrificing all forms of main armament in order to increase its hulls. This allowed the ship to survive even under fire while still using planes for bombardment and reconaissance. Taihou was a symbol for IJN's Aircraft Carriers.

tl;dr Success (CVB) vs Failure (BBV)