Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170829010745/@comment-2014227-20170901112809

RandomHitagi wrote:

Non-light carrier = large carrier, unless you can prove otherwise. I've never seen any real division between standard, light and large carriers tbh. The only division I've seen were fleet and non-fleet carriers, depending on their ability to operate as part of a larger force - speed.

Sources:

Japanese Destroyer Captain, Tameichi Hara, mentions Japan having 4 carriers after Midway, with two of them hardly able to be called fleet carriers due to their speed.

Santa Cruz, Eric Hammels, mentions the same, with the same conclusion.

Division into light, large or standard carriers is subjective, if not imaginary. If I'm not mistaken, there was a historic use of "large" carrier in the Midway-class when it had the CVB designator. Eventually it just became known as a CV like any other carrier before CVNs appeared.