Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-4720919-20160124090121

129.8.196.118 wrote: 68.100.170.129 wrote: Regardless, luck is gonna have to be tweaked if they ever roll out those USN ships. With the current meta, everyone would just stick in CI setups and steamroll maps with ease. Everyone gets what they want just like that, become bored and then quit. And god knows if they try to nerf them they'd be hounded by Allied fags and historical nuts because "muh historical inaccuracy." Seriously, adding USN kanmusus will be a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. This was a bad move imo. Except everyone knows American torpedoes were lacking so their torpedo stat isn't going to be very high. Add to that, a VAST majority of US light and heavy cruisers had no torpedo armaments and most of the ones that actually carried them (Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Northampton, Chester, Chicago, Augusta) all had their torpedoes removed prior to the war. That leaves Louisville, Houston, Atlanta-class minus Spokane, Fresno, and the second Juneau, and the Omaha-class as the only cruisers which could have torpedo stats, though not on the same level as the Japanese cruisers.

The same would probably ring true for the French cruiser lines, as every cruiser that was not scuttled in Toulon and joined the Allies had their torpedoes removed for better AA (except Gloire, Montcalm, George Leygues).