Plane carried would be the main point of carriers, not the guns. They can carry like what 30planes? and you would be able to launch them right at the start of the battle, while currently we can only spawn in 2 planes and you need points for them. This is not the same.
Maybe we’ll be able to send AI waves of planes, or control a squadron ourselves who knows.
imagine 130 hornets, each can carry 4 harpoons, basically guaranteed death to like 40 DDG’s
for ww2 stuff, USS enterprise could take up to 96 aircraft, Essex could take up to 100, and Midway could take 130 in ww2 config
lots of aircraft should be effective ingame because it was a pretty good way to take out ships until proxy fuse became widespread. would give something for the huge AA batteries on some ships to deal with
Ark Royal (91) was designed to carry 72 aircraft, “actually” carried 50 to 60 aircraft (according to wikipedia), that’s still quite a few. I think the point of carriers would be to spawn aircraft for basically free.
WW1 planes are a huge +1 for me, as I want my Fokker Dr.1 and Albatros D.III. Been playing Rise of Flight and Wings over Flanders Fields for years!
Zeppelins could be interesting.
Of you are after realism, isn’t that as close to real as you can get? How many died in WW2 as a result from being on a ship that couldn’t detect or counter a sub?