Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-1820055-20150701022818/@comment-26574811-20150803030352

Hyper Shinchan wrote: Vcharng wrote: Some suggests a fitting system (like overweight gun penalty) but I don't think that would be possible, since no one ever carried a Reppu in real life. It wouldn't really matter if they wanted to implement a similar system, some carriers were designed with that plane in mind, hence they had sufficiently large elevators, while those designed before couldn't carry it.

>All of a sudden everyone using Taiho and the three Unryu class.

EDIT: I think Shokaku class and Hiryu could also take the Reppu on the fore elevator.

RE-EDIT: Or maybe not? Just 13m wide, the wingspan of a Reppu is 14m, the folded tips probably don't save enough to have any margin whatsoever... I guess they can't. Junyo can carry it instead, 14mx14m elevators should be good, Taiho, Unryu and Shinano had similarly sized elevators. Junyo needs RATO (rocket-assisted take off) just to launch tenzans, I don't think she can actually launch Reppus, but Junyo K2 has a Reppu as her stock equipment, this is also a reason why I think this system won't happen.

And, Reppu's prototype, Type-17 Experimental Carrier Fighter was introduced in April 1942, Shoukaku was planned in 1937, no way she fits the critiria of "designed with Reppu in mind". The same goes for almost every carriers, since none of them were designed after April 1942. Only Shinano and the Unryu-class ever had plans to carry Reppus.

What's more, Shinden-Kai is gonna be penalized on every carrier anyway. Those old TTKs in Yokosuka are gonna rage at this.