Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180526124107/@comment-30538704-20180612172620

Eetere wrote: What use would a battleship carrier have in real life though? How would they even be used? If they got in range of thier guns, their range advantage as a carrier would be gone. In KanColle, they would probably be quite useful, but wouldn't just a normal carrier be more efficient in real life? They were absolutely useless. An idea born out of desperation. Any chance they might have had to at least deal some damage was nullified by the Navy not even allocating any planes to them.

All the conversion did was deny them much needed firepower, and the decks were not long enough to be fully utilised for carrier use anyway (and the British had already discovered/shown all these problems with Furious back in WW1).

The British briefly considered converting the unfinished HMS Lion to a BBV, the Naval Gunnery Director summed it up like this "The functions and requirements of carriers and of surface gun platforms are entirely incompatible ...the conceptions of these designs ...is evidently the result of an unresolved contest between a conscious acceptance of aircraft and a subconscious desire for a 1914 Fleet ...these abortions are the results of a psychological maladjustment."