Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-26574811-20150927100228

115.77.219.254 wrote:

If size or displacement don't matter, so we don't need seperate Light Cruiser, Heavy Cruiser or Battlercruiser either, just Cruiser for all of them, because their role are "cruisers". Cruisers are NOT seperated by displacements but by gun calibers, I mentioned Ooyodo being heavier than Furutaka. They are also VERY different in roles. BC is used as just a faster, weaker BB, CA put more efforts on torpedoes (unless if your torpedo technology sucks like the USN), CL are used more on leading DD fleets (all),  ASW (Japan), as a long-range patrol (UK) or genarally as fleet escorts.

Light carriers' definition also shifts from nation to nation, to the Japanese they are slower, fleet-defence carriers (and yes, there's little to no differnce between CVL and CVE to the Japanese); to the Americans they are cheaper fleet carriers that can still go with the big carriers; to the British they are just cheaper CVAs.