Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26091666-20160624120924/@comment-26574811-20160629230913

Hyper Shinchan wrote:

Vcharng wrote:

Unconvinced as some may be, this is how the Japanese wiki explains Kasumi K2B now. We have to find a way to explain why K2C is missing anyway. Without a source of any kind what people on the Japanese wiki say is in no way more authoritative than what anyone else could say.

Vcharng wrote: Another charactersitics of Type D would be focusing on Tokyo express (as Matsu-class carried two Shouhatsus to fulfill this role, Asashio also spent most of her time doing this, while Kasumi never did.) Ahem, you do remember that Kasumi K2B neverthless can carry all kind of Daihatsu plus the Type 2 amphibious tanks, right?

Bro, wikiwiki is next to official, and there's a lot of things the official sources just won't say.

Yes, Kasumi K2/K2B carries Daihatsu, just like a bunch of other definitely-not-type-D-nor-Tokyo-express-related DDs (Hibiki and Mutsuki never participated, Kisaragi sank before Tokyo express even existed). So I simply dropped that from my probable proof list. With only 3 out of 8  Daihatsu-compatible DDs actually participated in Tokyo Express, it won't prove or disprove anything anyway.

Oh yea, forgot to mention that Tokyo Express didn't use shipborne Daihatsus to begin with, and none of these are supposed to be able to carry any sort of landing crafts. DDs before Matsu-class do have shipborne cutters, but not anything suitable for landing operations.

Now here's a deal: We are looking at 3 different shitloads of nonsense where the devs seriously messed up. We have Daihatsu-carrying DDs, 3 armored carriers which either came from or feature impossible remodels, and the K2C being skipped. It's so messed up that we need to think about the devs changing their minds halfway. For example, it may well be true that K2A meant nothing, and K2B was just following the order. But now we have K2D, with K2C apparently skipped on purpose. Now what's that purpose? Skipping K2C requires a much bigger motivation than messing up K2A or K2B, for people simply don't do that just because they can.