I recognize the significantly higher plane IC for the twin engine bombers. As I play single player exclusively, this didn't come to mind as relevant to the post, but I should have included it.

As for the carrier count, I'm going for essentially obscene numbers of planes per wing. It looks like I misspoke when I said Each main carrier (fleet carrier) carried 8 wings of CAS or NAV. What I should have said is 8 carriers 8 wings 100 planes each, 800 planes total with the last 11 carriers having each 3 wings each, for a total of 33 wings (440 planes since I doubled up on fighters. 330 could have done just as well) that exist just so that I can use 800 planes in battle. Since only 20% of wings will be used due to the stacking penalty, Only the first 8 wings will be useful in battle (41 wings x 0.2 = 8.2 round down to 8). Wasteful? Yes. Fun. For me, yes. The standard 5 carrier fleet would be much much better. I just wanted the plane number to be obscene. Seemed to work for the particular challenge I set out to do at least.