Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-26574811-20180331044004

Tsubakura wrote: Vcharng wrote:

Most definitely not, they already stated "Destroyer escorts" instead of "American Kaiboukans". It will be silly to have a category with a name "destroyer" being introduced as Kaiboukan (which is anything but a destroyer) And we still have the torpedo problem. Don't forget that while the shipcard icon reads as 海防, the actual English name on shipcard is "Escort", which essentially fits with "Destroyer Escort" and basically any vessel that is smaller than a DD during that time. 護衛 basically means "Escort", so the USN DE being put in the same category as the Kaiboukans is just as likely, regardless whether it's historically correct for them to call the USN DEs a 海防艦 or not. They translated 海防艦 into Escort, but not the other way around, enough said. Also, 護衛 in 護衛駆逐艦, just like "escort" in "destroyer escort (or reversed)", is an adjective, the Escort (ship) in the ship card is a noun, using 護衛 as a noun will be a big problem in modern Japanese context as all their JMSDF's surface ships, including helicopter carriers, are known as 護衛艦 (escort ship), which means this is something the devs, as modern Japanese, will never do. By using the term 護衛(adj.)駆逐艦(n.), they have dictated that the US DE is essentially a destroyer. Aaaaand the torpedo thing, don't forget that. Also please think about how a Kaiboukan could represent the performance of Sammy B. It can't, quite flatly.