Talk:General Discussion/@comment-92.1.124.15-20140728221300/@comment-9676492-20140729004711

Destroyers are generally escort-type vessels, yes, but there are differences in quality between fleet ships and escort ships, to the extent that the USN uses different hull codes for them (DD vs DDE).

There were a substantial number of Escort Carriers in Japanese service, not a single one of which has gotten a KanColle incarnation. Why? Because they weren't designed to be in heavy combat, which means they were almost all torpedoed in the later phases of the war by submarines without having accomplished much.

The Special-Type destroyers and their successors (Fubuki, Hatsuharu, Shiratsuyu, Asashio, Kagerou, Yuugumo and to a lesser extent Akizuki) were all built with the intention that they would be firing torpedoes at enemy cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers, in addition to other destroyers.

The Matsu-class weren't, they were second-line destroyers. So were the Mutsukis, but they were second-line because of the global paradigm shift in destroyer design that the Fubuki-class represented.

Back on topic, I just don't think the Matsu class are gonna be implemented 'cause they didn't do anything significant.

Oh, also a good dozen of them were converted to Kaiten motherships, and the game's pretty clear that doing that is not cool with the shipgirls themselves.