Talk:General Discussion/@comment-171.96.183.129-20150131141555/@comment-42.114.26.22-20150131160424

It's gonna be a very limiting vessel. If it's BBV you need to spare spaces for both BB guns and CV flight decks. You need a long deck to recover aircraft, shorter decks might still do it but it gonna limit what aircrafts you can recover, and thus those might not do nearly as well as aircrafts from dedicated CV. In this game, you can see those Ise-class BBV can't launch any but bomber seaplanes and they sucked (Historically they can still launch Carrier Dive Bombers but what's the point when u can't recover them?).

On the other hand, in the modern era Battleships are mainly used as Coastal shelling support. No one is using BB guns to take out capital ships anymore, that duty is assigned to Missle-armed vessel such as Destroyers or Russian Aviation (Missile) Cruiser. That Russian Aviation Missile Cruiser though, is basically an Aircraft Carrier that can launch missles, so their role might be the closest to what Aviation Battleship/Battleship-Carrier.

Beside, Battleships are so costly and ineffective no one are building them anymore, even only handful of nations are building carriers, and the way the World is right now doesn't give any opportunity for large Capital Vessels to shine like in WWII days.