Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25091231-20141031192445/@comment-24332640-20141101073728

It has everything to do with being unique.

Branching rules are in terms of ship classes and/or slow/fast ships. The branching rule for the easy route in 6-1 demands a submarine tender. It just so happens that Taigei is the only submarine tender in the game.

That's not a sophism at all, because the discussion was about Bismarck vs. Fusou, both of whom belong to classes with several ships in them. Regardless of who the OP picked there would still be other ways to satisfy the branching conditions. The game has never demanded a specific ship for branching rules, only specific classes.