Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25287363-20150717083123/@comment-25435890-20150719205951

There wasn't even any need to make Maya and Choukai resemble Takao and Atago more with these remodels, because they were also different in the real life. Takao and Atago were actually extensively modernized and improved to the point that you can consider these two pair a separate subclasses with Takao one being superior.

I'm not sure if it was the same with Samidare and Suzukaze (there's also a bunch of Shiratsuyu class DD not in the game) but design differences in the same class usually have some proper reason.

And now that you mention it, Choumaya K2 green colour actually make them less similar to dark blue Takaos. It's all about berets.