Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180526124107/@comment-26574811-20180613020013

Saumarez wrote: 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." Well actually, Ise's conversion (1/3 conversion) was due to the fact that one of the ships (for got if it was Ise or Hyuga) got her #5 turret broke down. There was a full conversion and 2/3 conversion (i.e. what we will get in this update), which would be a lot more useful but was not completed due to budget issues.