Strategy games illustrate that money alone cannot produce a warship without engines, materials, weapons, ammunition, yards, and trained personnel. Each wartime carrier solution depended on a production path already available. Japan prepared convertible liners, the United States redirected Cleveland hulls and later built on the Baltimore form, and Britain adapted the proven Unicorn design tree. The Royal Navy still regarded light fleets as second-line bridges beneath large fleet carriers, with escort carriers occupying a lower tier rather than replacing first-line aviation.
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Available production shaped every emergency carrier
Japan used convertible liners, America used cruiser production, and Britain reused the Unicorn design tree because emergency programmes succeed through resources already in place.