Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-32647310-20180331050231

Vcharng wrote: ...which is why they fucked up and gave KB a wrong classification.

Also please remember, the USN never had a chance to see the TRUE role of post-Shimushu KBs, as they were designed against Russia, not US. What the USN saw was the improvised usage of these fishery patrol ships as DEs, and they classified the KBs according to this usage, unaware of the fact that it was not the initial purpose. Did they?

I'm pretty certain that the hundreds (if not thousands) of sailors, scouts, observers, historians and naval officers over the course of WWII and in the years after were not just slinging names and designations around willy-nilly. I am also fairly certain that the Department of the Navy, even in the 1940's had a *pretty* good idea of what a given ship's role was on the battlefield; improvised or intentional.

Let me put all of this another way:

the USN used the term 'Escort Ship' to describe the Kaibokan. This is the equivalent to USN Destroyer Escorts in that they had the following traits:

- A warship

- Traveled at or around 20 knots

- Designed with endurance in mind (that is, long distance travel as opposed to speed)

- Escort mid-ocean convoys

The fact of the matter is that this was a decision that was made 70+ years ago, and was documented as such. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it.