Talk:List of fleet standard aircraft carriers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-108.82.111.58-20141012011954/@comment-24978536-20141012013759

The firepower difference is actually quite significant for CV's shelling power, which means for pure shelling Taihou will always be better than the first carrier division. There is also the fact Taihou can attack when moderately damaged, which I have found useful in numerous occasions.

However, in later maps CV's role is usually a Wo-chan counter, which means one wants to use green planes often. For that purpose, Kaga is pretty much the best CV around with that huge 46 slot of her and large overall plane count. Akagi however, doesn't have as good plane count and I'd say she is worse than Taihou as a Wo-chan counter.

In general usefulness, I'd say Taihou is one of the best CV around and definitely worth aiming for. She is also the cutest CV around. However, as you can get Taihou with the BB recipe 4k / 6k / 6k / 3k / 20, and there are numerous LSC-only BB you can get with that recipe, I think it would be a good idea to focus on a BB recipe if you are not in a hurry to get Taihou like I was back in the day. (In general, you should always be able to get Taihou with the LSC BB recipes if you set the bauxite to 3k.)