Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20160312035845/@comment-4125495-20160324225411

Mystia Lore. wrote: 36.77.16.129 wrote: Chill, guys. It just my hunch since she is "special". In a more serious note : Fubuki is also a "Special" Destroyers and she requires no blue-print. The meaning of "Special" is... Special for the Devs :/ The Fubuki class is referred to as a Special Type (tokugata) because she was a massive leap over every Destroyer design currently in service in any navy in the world. Massive improvements to speed, range and armaments made the Fubukis as powerful as many other navies' light cruisers. Basically did for Destroyer designs what HMS Dreadnought did for Battleships, obsoleting entire navies overnight. Ayanami and Akatsuki classes are Special Type too, and you could argue that the Kagerou and Yuugumo classes were all Special Type too, since they were refinements of the Fubuki design (where the Hatsuharus were scaled down due to treaty limitations, and the Shiratsuyus and Asashios are refinements of the Hatsuharu fixing various issues).