Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26183083-20150424101944

Swordweaver wrote: 139.216.148.160 wrote: ...

Next, someone is probably going to suggest "IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AROUND WW2 MANEUVERS" i bet. Reality check: This game is based on WW2 ships and always had WW2 Maneuvers as maps The reason this game is based so heavily off WWII isn't just for WWII's sake, but it's also the only tangible outline for Japan protecting itself and the Western Pacific. The kanmusu being WWII ships are likely because it was the last time surface fleets were used, and held in balance by multiple countries (not to mention, the height of Japanese international presence, and the whole reincarnation cycle deal). Once we run out of historical battles (particularly since we -didn't- lose Midway, and -are- advancing across the Pacific) I'm sure we'll get to a stage or at least an event where we meet the USN and besiege the Abyssal Stronghold/Portal.

The above is actually a very good reason why we -don't- have a USN storyline, the Americas have never been navally assaulted en-masse with a modern navy, so the "Kancolle of America" would be nearly entirely made up. The USN is probably single-handedly defending those continents, like we are with Asia. Europe has so many historical navies (and the most powerful navy at that time - Britain) so they could probably spare sending a few ships from the less well-equipped navies (who as we've seen just happen to be the Axis) to help out the Japanese. By this reasoning we might see British (who, we know from Kongo, was at one point friendly enough to do so before) ships before we see American. Africa is actually quite well defensible by sea (part of the reason why it's called the Dark Continent, not because of the color of the peoples' skin there)

As for why we didn't send a sub out to America yet to do like what we did with Europe/Germany? perhaps because it's a longer, more dangerous trek, since it would be a lot more open ocean in the direction of the Abyssal's Stronghold, whereas the trip to Europe is "just" a run across our territories, across the edge of the Indian Ocean and up through the Mediterranian (Just because the original I-8 went the long way doesn't mean we have to)

TL;DR - American ships are plausibly available in the future, just expect them about the same time as Shinano, lol You have a good point that actually WWII PacWar is a good template for a Japanese led "liberation" campaign (The Great Asia Co-Prosperity sphere 70 or so years after the first attempt).

One must wonder, however, at how the Americans (if they exist) are doing. The fact we can actually have Midway and Aleutian campaigns suggest the Americans are at best doing well enough to keep their "core" free, and can't assemble forces to retake even the peripheries of their home ground. Alaska may already be Abyssal Central.

Considering America is the world's biggest navy by a large margin, one must wonder why this is the case.

Come of think of it, since we are doing Quasi-New Guinea operations in World 5, isn't it almost time we bumped into the Australian Navy?