Upcoming US and Japanese ship classes

I'm currently working on adding the following ship classes to the Naval War Datacards:

US:
- Essex class carrier
- Independence class light carrier
- Casablanca class escort carrier
- John C. Butler Destroyer Escort

Japan:
- Yugumo class Destroyer
- Shimakaze class Destroyer
- Chitose class Light Carrier
- Ryuhõ class Light Carrier
- Taihõ class Fleet Carrier
- Hyjo class Fleet Carrier
- Ise class Battleship hybrid carrier
- Mogami class Aircraft Cruiser

That should go a long way in fleshing out the Fleet lists for the US and Japan for ships active in the later battles like Leyte Gulf. I'll give a heads up when the new zip-files are uploaded, for now I still need to find some pictures, then generate all statcards and send them to the webmaster to upload.

I'll also provide a table of carriers and their standard loadouts here on the forum until suitable Orders of Battle are available for each carrier.

If you have any further requests for US or Japanese ships that are still missing, please request them here so I can include them in the upload.

Further adds:

US Aircraft:
- P-36 Hawk
- P-39 Aircobra
- P-40 Warhawk
- Brewster Buffalo
- TBF Avenger
- SB2C Helldiver
- F4U Corsair
- F6F Hellcat

Japan
- D4Y "Judy"
- B6N2 "Jill"
- Aichi E16A "Paul"

Further added the Illustrious-class with its complement of Sea Hurricanes, Martlets and Albacores to the Force Z OOB and the datacards archives.

HMS Indomitable was sort of planned to enforce Force Z but couldn't because she ran aground on her maiden voyage. It should be pointed out that because of the time needed to sail to Singapore she couldn't have realistically joined force Z before it was destroyed but I still included her in the OOB because it is an interesting what if.

She is an 'or' choice with HMS Hermes.

All the above classes and planes have been added to the 1.3.5 Zip-archives.

Thanks for all the new content!

Quick question about the Aganos: They (at least as designed) were equipped with ASW gear like the Sendai class. Would you consider adding this capability to them in a future iteration?

Also noticed Hyjo and Junyo were missing their ship images in the cards.

Both omissions have been noted. I've just sent a new IJN .zip file to the webmaster for upload. As soon as the new file is uploaded both errors will be fixed.

Thanks for noticing!