Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-26486243-20150930021914

CVA for the following reasons:

1. If Shinano appears she'll be CVB. There's a need to keep them distinct in the event that she has her own ship class. If she shares the class names of the other carriers instead we can call her CVA/CV instead. When the time comes. Plus, CV CVA CVB makes for a nice alphabetical progression.

2. CVA has a legacy usage in US Navy as Attack Carriers, and the high combat stats (and relatively low plane slots for air superiority) for both Taihou and Shoukaku Kaini A so far are consistent with this usage.

3. It's intuitive that CVA will be 'CV Armoured' like how CVL can be thought of as 'CV Light' in English; the Japanese term 装甲空母 also contains the same A (Kou/甲) that is also present in the name of Shoukaku Kaini A, since 装甲 refers to armour. Regardless of which language is used

Taihou was never a CVB and should never have been assigned the CVB tag.