Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180526124107/@comment-28358541-20180612213113

Given that the Zero could take off with only half the flight deck, this type of carrier would still be an air asset. The Zero itself was spotted almost next to the Island. Many of our beloved CVLs in-game are using planes they were not able to due to elevator width of deck space. I recall earlier Taiyo can't use the heavier attack planes due to her converstion. The whole length of a carrier deck was only needed for the most heavily laden attack aircraft. A properly fitted Ise or Hyuuga conversion wouldn't be entirely useless as a light carrier. However it'd still be slow.

Those guns also would still be useless, however getting rid of the guns they already had resulted in weight reductions despite the carrier facilities. I'm rememebring the Mogami class conversions where some of them lose their 8" guns for smaller dedicated Anti-Air guns. I would think the same should have been done for these conversions. As pointed out there is no use for a large heavy turret on a carrier at all, unless you could reuse the space for actual anti-air weaponry.

Really this remodel just seems to be "More Deck." Gameplay-wise that means spotting a larger air group at once, and spotting and retrieving heavier aircraft.