Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-112.120.148.68-20150425150443

189.235.159.218 wrote: >100 torpedo base stat at flagship form Yes, totally an "ordinary cruiser".

She need a midget sub equipped to do a preventive torpedo salvo, just like Kitakami, Ooi and Kiso. If devs don't give her Abyssal Cuttlefish Torpedo as default equipment is probably just to made or lives easiest. To give a mere example, Elite form will taiha anything that is not a battleship and flagship version will literally torn apart even Yamato class in line ahead. Howerever, If there will be a Remodeled Flagship in future, it's probably that she will have a midget sub since that didn't stop devs use it on Re Class tho. Oh, OK, the later forms, yes, but the early form is just 18 to 48, while say a To-class CL is 24 to 28. Oi and Kitakami when they first are torp cruisers start out at like 8 to 80. In comparison, it is more of a shifted bias.

It doesn't help that you really barely notice the plane in game. While you can at least feel the torpedoes, you only really notice the dinky little recon plane on your side. No one bothers to tell you "We've been spotted by an Abyssal recce plane".

In any case, I don't see how the presence of one slightly IJN-ish class compensates for all those "5-inch guns" or "Hellcats" or the "22-inch" torpedoes it carries.