Talk:General Discussion/@comment-180.246.53.220-20151101082551/@comment-24161900-20151103161120

 "back in the days a magazine article said that they would be "more loli-like than submarines" to reflect their small displacement."

Devs pls gib. In all seriousness, I'm not sure how effective coastal defence ships would be in the current iteration of the game. If they are simply another way of cramming ASW on ships, then they are intruding on DD's niche. If they are like Monitors, then their usefulness is going to be limited by a low HP and armor pool, and as far as I'm aware nobody really used monitors during WW2 except the british for some coastal shelling. Their usefulness IRL was severely limited in open water, and I don't think they would have too much use in game as combat vessels. Just Imagine a 20 HP ship with no armor, with 1 battleship gun and no seaplane. No artillery spotting, no night battle potential, asking to be taiha'd by a FS DD....

I think it's far more likely to get fcking Shinano before anything related to coastal defence.