How about making the battleship the flagship of the fleet and making it a lot harder to sink, lets say 5 times harder than the CV? Then make sunk CVs (and CAs and DDs) regenerate after 15 minutes or so. That way a bomber can still shut down air operations over a fleet temporarily but it will take a bit more effort to get the whole fleet to re-spawn to its port. Fleet aircraft attacking a base when their CV is sunk would have to make the decision to either cap the fleet until it comes back or try to take the base.
This is an awesome idea. Friggin awesome!
Look, I'm just sayin.... busting CV's is limited only by the amount of time it takes to fly a formation to it's location. That's it. What's the point? At the current time, the ONLY effective employment of a CV is to sneak it within bombardment range and HOPE some noob doesn't take off too early. (Shades and the "insta-action" mindset play a huge part in this) AFTER waiting 2hrs for it to "get there".
A more pressing question is, is this nonsense going to remain with AHIII?