Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-17703786-20151001151434

TheLenrir wrote: So put Shoukaku Kai ni as a CVB then, how fucking hard can that possibly be? Yet everyone here is sperging about 'OH WE SHOULD MAKE THEM SEPERATE' We're not moving to make them separate. Rather, the discussion is to replace the term "CVB" which will encompass Taihou, Shoukaku and other future ships with the same features with a more appropriate and "correct" term. Putting Shoukaku as "CVB" would be factually incorrect, and in fact preventing Shoukaku from being labelled as such is what sparked the discussion in the first place, even if the OP started off with Taihou as the basis.

While we can just call them "Armored Carriers" or "Armored CV" and be done with it, people want to be able to shortcut their names with hull codes just like with every other class, hence why the discussion in the first place. And only now is it recognized that "CVB" is an incorrect term to use as a shortcut for "Armored Carrier".