Talk:Houston/@comment-26464279-20191206101123/@comment-34778975-20191206175954

Having gone through the hate fest that was Intrepid's welcome after Shibafu was announced as the artist for the first Essex class CV in the game, I am unimpressed with the amount of dislike for Houston.

Art is entirely subjective, so I will get that not everyone will like her. Personally I found her artwork and appearance just fine for my tastes, though I agree the placement and pose of her left hand is "off".

The inclusion of chibi Fire-Director robot buddy makes that easily forgiven.

And while she is nothing special stat-wise compared to IJN cruisers, she is a Northampton, which like the preceding Pensacola was originally classed by the USN as a light cruiser before the second round of Naval Treaties. If we see any mid or late war USN cruiser designs in the future I expect them to outshine the IJN, the Pastas and even Eugen easily.

That is...assuming that some other mechanic for yasen combat value is derived for them using radar fire direction instead of torpedoes...because they didn't ever carry them.