Which early carrier do you like best?

[dps]

Lexington class.  Even though a lot of early carriers had 8" guns, only the Lexingtons had them in turrents.

[Viking]

Lexington with Kaga and Akagi as close seconds.


anyways, What about USS Ranger?, the first keel up fleet carrier, as opposed to converted BB or BC or a test of concept ship. 

[grumbler]

I'm going with Kaga; the others mostly look like they were designed.  Kaga looks like someone left a hull in an alley and a bunch of homeless people built flat-topped housing projects rather haphazardly on the hull.

[Monoriu]

Yeah, based on looks alone, I'd vote for Kaga as well.  The others look like serious designs.  Kaga has a very "anime" look.  I particularly like the 3 big AA guns that point toward the sky, for some reason. 

[celedhring]

Aye, voted for the Kaga for how freaky and irrational it looks.

[Ed Anger]

I'm going with Kaga; the others mostly look like they were designed.  Kaga looks like someone left a hull in an alley and a bunch of homeless people built flat-topped housing projects rather haphazardly on the hull.

[DontSayBanana]

Kaga, based on the fact that it looks like some dystopian floating colony.  Probably one of my favorite themes in pulp science fiction.

[Neil]

anyways, What about USS Ranger?, the first keel up fleet carrier, as opposed to converted BB or BC or a test of concept ship.

I was focusing on 20s carriers.

[Maladict]

I like the 1918 conversion of Furious, it's an aircraft carrier that still looks like a respectable warship.
But of the ones pictured, I'll go with Kaga as well.

[CountDeMoney]

Kaga looks like someone left a hull in an alley and a bunch of homeless people built flat-topped housing projects rather haphazardly on the hull.

It was Dirty Mike and the boys.  Floating soup kitchen.

http://youtu.be/u1j4mK6cs_A

[alfred russel]

Japan. 

The strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.

[alfred russel]

To answer the question though, I prefer the IJN Houshou. She is a more mothering, model-housewife type carrier who is experienced and supportive of the more energetic, more capable carriers that demand so much attention.

Lettow, I knew you would go for a Japanese carrier. Come on! We are American! Be American! 

[Neil]

That's not surprising at all.  Their excellent cameras are a side-effect of their naval armament industry.

[alfred russel]

That's not surprising at all.  Their excellent cameras are a side-effect of their naval armament industry.

I was making a Dr. Strangelove reference. 

[Neil]

To answer the question though, I prefer the IJN Houshou. She is a more mothering, model-housewife type carrier who is experienced and supportive of the more energetic, more capable carriers that demand so much attention.

Lettow, I knew you would go for a Japanese carrier. Come on! We are American! Be American! 

There's nothing wrong with appreciating a foreign warship.  Mind you, Hosho isn't in the poll, as I consider it one of the experimental ships.  Maybe I'll do another poll, although that would just be Argus, Langley and Hosho.

It's also unusual to prefer a warship because of it's anthropomorphized female avatar, but I suppose I don't really care why you prefer the ship you prefer, just that you love a warship.