Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170330044846/@comment-26574811-20170507023711

Tsubakura wrote: So an update regarding the ship classification. The Kaiboukan has now been renamed from PF to DE.

The Kaiboukan were designed by the japanese to function as Destroyer Escorts in the first place, why the hell would we rename them now to PF instead? Also, I've never heard of a WW2 patrol boat being able to equip up to 3x 12cm naval guns.

Anyway, this decision is final, unless people can provide me a very good reason why we should use a different classification instead of DE, which makes the most logical sense in general. I thought we have listed a thousand reasons why DE is wrong and PF is right earlier in this thread?

Japanese DEs are Matsu-class, dude, although it was never officially called as such (DE is known as 2nd-grade DD in IJN terminology, Matsu is 1st-grade), Kaibokans serve as the same role as British Flower-class corvettes, which is PF in USN hull symbol. What's more, post-war Taiwanese Navy (Republic of China Navy) received some Kaiboukans, and they are known as PFs in their classification, like Kaiboukan #107 becoming PF-74 Chao-An in ROCN and others.