Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-49.97.105.92-20140516022117/@comment-24332640-20140516103131

Shinano was kind of a weird ship...even though she was friggin huge (same basic hull as Yamato/Musashi after all), her planned usable plane capacity was actually less than most of Japan's CVs. A lot of this is because of poor hanger designs given the rather hasty conversion from her original design as a battleship. I mean, she could actually carry a lot more but getting those planes out in a combat scenario was impractical.

The sort of planned use of Shinano was a kind of forward operating point for a carrier group. Since she was much better protected than any other Japanese carrier (armored flight deck and a Yamato-class hull), other carriers would stay farther away from the battle and then send their planes to Shinano to refuel and rearm. She would therefore carry lots of extra fuel, ammo, and even spare planes. Of course Shinano was sunk before Japan ever got a chance to actually try this and by the time Shinano would have been ready they had hardly any other carriers left anyway...so we'll never really know if this plan would have worked.

I have no idea what any of this would mean in terms of game mechanics...