A lot of people give the Hiryu too much credit. Yes it has a lot of planes space but it
launches the same number of planes as Indy, and Collosus. 7 bombs will sink all cv's but
the big ones, aka Yorktown, Ark Royal, sometimes Graf Zepplin, and etc etc. A good cv
player can compete with Graf with a Ryujo or Hiryu. But an average cv player will get
owned. But anyway the unbelievable turning radius of Yorktown gives it a huge advantage at
the CV3 level. But Ark Royal and Illustrious have the advantage of good deck armor. So I
would say Yorktown is best CV at that level.

Brit Courageous is CV3, IJN Unryu CV2, see the difference? Now take Courageous
vs. Hiryu...

So the Brit lvl 73 carrier can launch 9 planes while the IJN lvl 72 carrier can only
launch 7? Can't say I'm the least bit surprised though.

CV is a lot of skill. You can have a CV 3 but get owned if you don't know how to use
it.

if you want best CV play in all game , run shinano (IJN 100 level) if you want best
clan war CV, run shokaku (IJN 95 level) or Malta Project (UK 98 level) or Europa
(KM 95 level)

40-50 level best CV: Independence (US 55 level)
60-70 level best CV: Graf Zeppelin (KM 65 level) or Yorktown ( US 65 level)
70-80 level best CV: Illustrious (UK 73 level)
80-90 level best CV: Ark Royal (UK 85 level) or Taiho (IJN 83 level)
90-100 level best CV: Shokaku (IJN 95 level) or Lexington (US 94 level) or Europa
(KM 95 level) or Malta Project (UK 98 level).

if you count plane advantage , KM own all other 3 at 80 - 90 level CV , in 60-70
level , UK
and US have same advantage. IJN .... live by stealth at oyodo to hiryu ....

Trainworld = Life in NF

http://trainworld.us/NF2/new_ship_compair/CVs.html#%93%FA%96{%20IJN

Hope this helps,
-Archer

ships... A I R S H I P S... aka airplanes...

i dont know of any Aircraft Carriers that can launch ships . . .

trainworld.us do the math for urself