Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-189.235.159.218-20150425155015

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.

Basic form has 44 torpedo base, Elite has 62 and Flagship 100.

To Class has 26 and Elite form has 46.

You are probably dont have their base stats clear because the equippement: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_equipment_used_by_the_enemy

It surely does not compensate it but its a fact, and I find strange that someone ignore it just to blindly believe that all Abyssals are american ships and then uses it as part of why we dont have an USN ship in game discussion.

Back then when DD Hime was added to the game, I remember that people literally rage and bash the dev team, foreigners and japanese players equally, because according to them they ruin the game spirit for giving hints that she could be Harusame. To me, thats pretty much extreme and unnecessary.

Nobody knows what exactly Abyssals are in game canon and probably we as players not gonna know for sure soon. Like others said they could be aliens, monsters, biological weapons, sunken ships and some of them american ships. In my opinion, we as a player base need to be open minded.