>Oh yeah, got distracted by the "naval gunfire" part and forgot to
>follow this up.
>
>>When the poll first went up, I thought about suggesting Jun'you
>>as a write-in despite the "carriers won't work well" notation- she was
>>converted to an aircraft carrier from a cruise liner, which in the
>>world of Strike Witches would require little more than repainting the
>>shuffleboard court with spotting marks for Striker Units.
>
>As a ship, that would work fine, but a KanColle-style
>fleet girl would have scale problems serving as a platform for air
>witches. The mechanism by which the carriers in KanColle are
>shown to be doing their thing doesn't lend itself to the OWaW setting
>very well, and doubly so if you replace the tiny fairy-operated
>airplanes with normal-size girls. That's why I had the "carriers
>probably won't work for Reasons" caveat on there. Otherwise it
>would've been the simplest casting choice in the world: Kaga! Done.
>:)

If it's not too much of a bother for me to launch into a bit of a gedankenexperiment with the setting, I think the "shikinami" carriers, the ones who use paper seals to summon planes, could still work well with the Witches. No, they wouldn't be able to carry a whole Witch around (well, they could, i.e. Lucchini on her back, but it wouldn't be of any practical use), but they could use their shikinami abilities to summon duplicates of the Witches involved in the combat, so that the Neuroi in question gets to play a short round of "Which Mio's the Real One?" before getting chopped to bits.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."