Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180103030504/@comment-32647310-20180127171329

@Kine87:

Fair enough.

In some ways, I enjoy some degree of speculation, but I prefer to lean towards wither the more reasonable fact-based kind that have some basis in reality and past performance (such as the possibility of a CVE as a reward). However, there's a lot of folks who buy into the hype-train that was built up with rampant speculation with very little to go on and are then vastly disappointed...and somehow it's the devs' fault.

@Artuuia:

My guess is kinda like yours; British DD will be for E2 with Potato DEs as drops (I care because, you know, gotta catch 'em all!) with a CVL* as the E4 reward...but that is all I'm willing to speculate upon at this point, because that is the extent of the information we have to go on.

I say CVL specifically (as opposed to CVE) because the Escort Carrier was in all cases comparable to a Light Carrier but slower and with lighter armor. What I see as this USN ship being is a CVL with fairly 'meh' stats overall, but possessing an ASW stat (as USN CVEs were tasked to help defend against subs)...limiting general usefulness, but good for going after subs and adding Transport Combined Fleets.