Talk:Amagi/@comment-25684335-20150223115753/@comment-114.78.110.201-20150321035416

Shinano wouldn't be that overpowered. You have to remember that her own air-component amounted to only 47 planes; because of a ridiculous design compromise during her conversion the space she carried for an extra 120 was exclusively given over to servicing the planes of other carriers; I doubt that she had the capacity to launch them as part of her own air-group. This was because her hangar was divided into two halves by a bulkhead which precluded easy launching and integration.

She wasn't supposed to be a conventional carrier, more like mobile support airfield, and it was a half-assed idea at best. If she's given the full ~150 planes I think it would be as a Kai Ni only, as a sort of "what if" scenario. As historically built she wouldn't have been able to operate anywhere near that mount of planes, but maybe if they had gone with a full-blown carrier role... *shrug*