Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180526124107/@comment-32647310-20180612171821

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? Absolutly nothing.

WWII was, effectivly, the end of the era of the Battleship. The entirety of the Pacific War made it clear that that anything a Battleship could do, a carrier could do better.

Further, anything that would be added to a carrier to do something other than be an aircraft carrier would do nothing but make it a worse carrier. For example, in the case of something like a Carrier Battleship, all of the space for the turrets, fire control, armor, ammunition in the like takes up would be better used for space to store and service aircraft; from parts, ammunition and fuel to actual aircraft as well as housing for pilots and the like.

So in real life, anything resembling a BBV is worthless. In any sort of fantasy setting on the other hand, all bets are off.