Talk:General Discussion/@comment-26391060-20150422170645/@comment-26348726-20150427070417

From what I can remember, I believe that in the early days of Kancolle (some time before IBS), CVs were indeed allowed to participate in ASW, but a game update removed that capability (for balancing reasons I suppose).

Though really, there are plenty of situations in which you would much rather your heavy-hitting CVs target heavily-armored enemy surface ships, rather than being forced to attack the weak enemy subs that you equipped your DDs/CLs to take down...