Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171217042051/@comment-32647310-20171220034830

Shinhwalee wrote: If you have a better explanation of the historical hints Devs gave us, please feel free to share :V Original tweet stated that the ship was a 'Mainstay Fleet Destroyer'. Given the note on the Kagerou-Class page that they were '...the backbone of the empire's first-line destroyer strength', implies that this class would be considered a 'Mainstay Fleet Destroyer'.

This is not to say that it's *not* a Yuugumo-Class that's getting the K2, especially considering that there is little difference between both the Yuugumo and Kagerou Class... but the statement in the tweet and the on the Kagerou-class page makes me more inclined to think it's a Kagerou-Class that's getting it.

The newest tweet states '...the sisters went down one after another under a difficult battlefield...'. To me, this implies Leyte Gulf as a whole, as this was the most difficult battle for the IJN that I am aware of, and the ships that were lost were of the same class and battle.

Both Shiranui and Nowaki were lost there (and Nowaki is named specifically on the wikipedia entry on the Battle of Leyte, which is a bit noteworthy as Destroyers are rarely named). Both are Kagerou-Class, both were at Leyte and were sunk there, and neither have a K2 yet.

Now, because there is little difference between the Yuugumo and Kagerou classes, it is possible that the K2 ship is still a Yuugumo-class, which then shifts my arguement to Fujinami (sunk a day after Leyte ended) and Hayashimo (lost/out of action while trying to save Shiranui)

(though they could just be talking about the war in general). If it is the same battle, only two Yuugumo-class ship was lost at Leyte that I know of, and that was Fujinami (a day after the battle) and Hayashimo (lost at the battle, written off as a loss several days later).

So for me, given the clues that have been presented, I am thinking it's either Shiranui, Nowaki, Fujinami or Hayashimo.