Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26423025-20150522084616/@comment-1637496-20150522101958

My opinion, uh? Escort carriers have been announced in a magazine some time ago, it's mentioned in the update page too, it's just a matter of time before we will get those ships.

I'm not sure about how they're going to work, protection and speed place them below the worst light carrier in game, the number of planes will probably be somewhat higher than what they carried, that's normal given what they did with Chitose (more than twice her actual air wing) and other light carriers (Junyo being the only one with a complement comparable to the actual one).

In terms of equipment I expect them to come with ASW torpedo bombers, the Tenzan 931 Kokutai or possibly something new.