Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24978536-20150603014528/@comment-4125495-20150603062955

Akagi and Kaga are already arguably the two best carriers in the game (except Taihou, who sits somewhere below Kaga but ahead of Akagi) so there's no reason to expect they'd get Kai2, especially not ahead of Shoukaku and Zuikaku. With the way aircraft mechanics work, the cranes' really low firepower stat (39, lower than all others) combined with their 3 mid-sized slots end up making their aircraft less effective than the others which have a couple of medium-sized slots and one really large slot. To get the same amount of air power that Kaga can from her biggest slot, they need to devote two slots to fighters. Wouldn't be too hard to fix, either - up all their slots from 24 to 28-30 (or just up one slot from 24 to 32+) and decrease the small slot from 12 to around 4-6 and up their firepower cap a bit to be at least close to the Unryuus and suddenly they'd be extremely viable.

Historically speaking, Shoukaku and Zuikaku should be the best Japanese carriers in the game except for Taihou (and Shinano if she ever gets added)