Combined arms suggestion

@Baron:

That way, it will not affect the G40 or 1942.2 opening round set-up balance.

Fair point!

Good idea; but I have the following question: Does the carrier need at least one air on board before the battle to get the combined arms bonus? (Sorry for the question but sometimes it may happen that a carrier is empty).

@M 3 for cruisers: Why should the cruiser get faster if combined with CA and BB? And it is not useful because you loose bonus if cruiser moves away from rest of fleet.
We use in addition to normal (OOB) heavy cruiser a light cruiser with A3 D2 M3 C10. This is often bought after CA, DD, SS.

No need to add recon planes. Even empty carrier can be considered. There is also early radar tech on board.

Move 3 Cruiser is the specific bonus capacity of Cruiser.
It does not need combined arms. Cruiser can reinforced in a faster way a carrier group.

A 10 IPCs Cruiser becomes always interesting.

CA= Heavy Cruiser
CV= Aircraft carrier (v-shaped aircraft)

@Baron:

CA= Heavy Cruiser
CV= Aircraft carrier (v-shaped aircraft)

The “V” in CV has no relationship to V-shaped aircraft.  Aircraft with swept wings didn’t exist when carriers were first developed.  The “V” comes from the second letter of “aviation”.  Carriers were originally considered to be an extension of the cruiser reconnaissance role, (which is where the “C” comes from), but “CA” (for “cruiser aviation”) couldn’t be used as a hull designation code for them because it was already used to designate heavy cruisers, so “CV” was chosen instead.

@CWO:

@Baron:

CA= Heavy Cruiser
CV= Aircraft carrier (v-shaped aircraft)

The “V” in CV has no relationship to V-shaped aircraft.  Aircraft with swept wings didn’t exist when carriers were first developed.  The “V” comes from the second letter of “aviation”.  Carriers were originally considered to be an extension of the cruiser reconnaissance role, (which is where the “C” comes from), but “CA” (for “cruiser aviation”) couldn’t be used as a hull designation code for them because it was already used to designate heavy cruisers, so “CV” was chosen instead.

Thanks Marc,
I did not invent this out of nowhere.
Do you know how this “v-shaped” myth in CV abbrev. appear as a naval (urban?) legend explanation?

P.S. I was aware that V was not for Carrier Vessel. But not that v-shaped was also wrong.

@Baron:

Do you know how this “v-shaped” myth in CV abbrev. appear as a naval (urban?) legend explanation?

I have no idea where the story about the V-shape originated, but it’s not the only “plausible-sounding but actually wrong” theory that exists on the subject.  An even stranger theory which I once heard – from someone who was serving on a U.S. Navy carrier at the time he wrote to me – was that “V” stood for “vixed-wing aircraft,” in reference to the term “fixed-wing aircraft”.  The first flaw with that theory is that “fixed” is spelled with an “f”, not a “v”.  The more serious flaw is that “fixed-wing aircraft” is a term which is used to distinguish conventional aircraft from helicopters, which are known as rotary-wing aircraft.  Helicopters didn’t exist when aircraft carriers were first developed; all aircraft at the time were fixed-wing aircraft, so there was no need to call them “fixed wing” aircraft; the term “aircraft” sufficed.  (Similarly, the term “analog watches” only had to be devised after digital watches were invented; prior to that time, a watch was just a watch.)

I do sometimes have to look more than once when I see the CV.  Should be AC.