Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26574811-20150724133202

Swordweaver wrote: lol, what if the reason the Abyssals use US standards (like gun barrels in inches, which is soo many peoples reason to assign Abyssal = USN) is just because the US was the first to encounter the Abyssals (since they are much more likely to run into a strange fleet in the middle of the ocean), so they were named as such.

Then things took a slight turn for the worse (since the USN at current is spread thin across the world, with a new powerful enemy the would need to regroup a little) and Japan had to pick up slack on it's side of the Pacific, while the US retreated to theirs, but the naming convention in US units remained. The new Japanese kanmusu would of course use metric units not only for history sake, but also simply becuase Japan is a metric country.

The Atlantic is not only smaller, but has both the RN and USN able to protect it, hence Italy and Germany being able to send a few (capital ships even) to help us.

I still think we're getting USN girls somewhere down the line, probably once we cross the Pacific, and any tension between our girls and theirs will be comic at worst. Imperial units is a bad reason to prove that Abyssals=USN. Anyone who believes it, just go and try name an Allied ship that has 20-inch guns or is classified as CL(T)s.

Oh and did I not mention that there already are Abyssals generally believed to be an IJN ship? The Destroyer Princess is generally considered as a sunken version of Harusame, hence often refered to as "Warusame" in Japanese, litarally means "Evil Harusame".

Your story sounds interesting, but from my knowledge of "Japanese-Style Pacifying Policy", I would suggest a story like one of these:

1. Pearl Harbor event, fight the Abyssals, get the Americans, turns out they were somewhat "brainwashed" into Abyssals, and they fight with the IJN happily after, the end.

2. Pearl Harbor turns out to be an expedition or quest, get USS Fletcher, LSC USS Enterprise and USS Iowa, and the rest is history.

3. The devs are starting to run out of ideas, so they make Operation Ten-Go as an event, but features Arpeggio-like systems where mysterious OP ships appear and help TTKs fend off the Abyssals, and then disappears after the event. Later, it turns out that they are the Americans, and the TTKs who fought the event get their first American ship girls.

Anyway, I always believe that there will eventually be Allied girls, for one, single, solid reason: If not so, Shinano would be the last Fleet Carrier ever to be introduced in the whole game. The game still has a long way to go before it dies out, and half, perhaps more than half, of its life without a single addition to one kind of ship is just unimaginable and unacceptable.