ORIGINAL: Mobeer
1) Will the Japanese player be able to convert Nisshin or Mizunho to light carriers?
1a) Will the AI be able to do this?
2) Will historically sunk ships have further upgrades available in later years?
3) Will the re-incarnation of Allied cruisers continue? Will there be a limit to how many cruisers can be recreated?
4) If US carriers are not sunk, will the replacements enter service under alternative names?
5) Will replacement US carriers have airgroups?
6) Will the AI understand the difference between normal and replacement carrier air groups on US escort carriers?
I promise - any of these features not included will be part of RHS Level 8 - which Mifune and I redesignated today. Originally intended for a different map concept - almost all of that concept is in AE - so RHSAE will be called Level 8.
We may not need to modify the map/pwhexL files at all. But OB stuff we can and will do.
I don't know what Terminus means by "the Japs didn't look seriously at this." Any ship planned so it could be built in alternate forms was "seriously looked at." In addition, just about every major hull in the Empire was subject to full scale carrier modifications post Midway - sometimes as many as three different kinds of carriers. AFTER ALL these designs (which must be considered "seriously looking at what we can do") were done, it was decided which to implement, which were more valuable to keep in their present form. Thus Kongos were not converted - because of their value as high speed escorts - the same for most CAs - but a badly damaged CA was converted to a seaplane semi-carrier, the two least valuable battleships similiarly converted to semi-carriers - although originally not seaplane semicarriers - and eventually dual carrier/seaplane semicarriers - the uncompleted CA Ibuki was converted to a CVL and the uncompleted Shinano to a CV. For extensive information on these matters, see Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War and Kaigun.
