Talk:General Discussion/@comment-1703923-20150920032905/@comment-4125495-20150922081458

You could probably argue that we already have an escort carrier in the game in Hoshou. She was built as a fleet carrier but by WW2 her role was basically that of an escort carrier, she was too small and slow to be useful for anything but providing fighter cover.

And in gameplay terms, I can't see why you'd implement escort carriers as anything but slow speed light carriers. I also can't see how they'd fit into the game at all as it is unless they added some new mechanics for them. Why would I want to use a slow, less armored light carrier? What benefit would they bring aisde from being cheaper to run and repair? It's not like the few CVEs Japan used were particularly notable or special, they're mainly in the history books for their tendency to explode and sink with massive loss of life.