What do the ship icons represent?

[Skorpion]

I've always thought that the icons for ships represented an entire fleet, with the highest value ship being the one shown on the icon. I.e a battleship icon represents one battleship *and* a collection of cruisers, destroyers etc.

So here's an idea...

There should be a reasonable chance that an attack on a battleship group would result in the destruction of said battleship *thus resulting in the change of the icon from a battleship to a cruiser*.

I for one am sick of seeing carriers going around at strength one when the actual carrier (which would of course be the main target) would have been destroyed in preference to all the other little ships that accompany it.

[Wolfpack]

Originally posted by Skorpion:

I've always thought that the icons for ships represented an entire fleet, with the highest value ship being the one shown on the icon. I.e a battleship icon represents one battleship *and* a collection of cruisers, destroyers etc.

So here's an idea...

There should be a reasonable chance that an attack on a battleship group would result in the destruction of said battleship *thus resulting in the change of the icon from a battleship to a cruiser*.

I for one am sick of seeing carriers going around at strength one when the actual carrier (which would of course be the main target) would have been destroyed in preference to all the other little ships that accompany it.

Not a bad idea, but then you'd have to add in the capability to repair back up to a BB. Plus, you have to figure on the fact that each BB icon doesn't just represent 1 BB plus escort, it's more on the order of 2-4. In addition to that, which of the ships are going to be the hardesr to take out? The larger ones of course, both because of their greater defensive power and the fact that they'll usually be smack dab in the middle of a large formation of ships. As for the carriers, think of the loss of strength also accounting for air wing losses. a strength 1 carrier group could be one that had nearly it's entire complement of aircraft destroyed.