Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-28069733-20180411062034

Vcharng wrote: 2605:6001:F447:8400:D8E3:DC8F:8229:C1D8 wrote: That's why the Devs just gave up and are going to group them all as Escort ships. The problem only exists outside Japan, I don't see a single reason for the Japanese Devs to group DEs as Escort ships/Kaiboukans. Besides it doesn't cut them any trouble, because they'll then have to make a torpedo-compatible version of KBs, then why don't you just classify them as destroyers?

That's why DE being introduced as either part of DD or a new subcategory of DD should be considered the only possibility. Don't forget that the official name on the shipcards for Kaiboukan is Escort, not Coastal Defense Ship nor Destroyer Escort for that matter. The claim of the only possibility being that the DE gets classified as a DD is not factual, because an American DE is in a sense an Escort and the likelihood of the US DE being put into the same category as the Kaiboukans is just as likely as anything else regardless of what your historical facts state. Also as mentioned way earlier in the thread, while DE is currently used for the classification of Escorts, nobody refers the Kaiboukans as Destroyer Escorts. As amusing as this looks, the topic of the debate has changed to something useless once again. =w=

Debating about how the devs will implement the new US DE is pointless. If you want to debate about something more productive, you might wanna change the topic to what classification would be proper IF the release of the new US DE would cause enough issues that it questions the designation of DE -> Kaiboukan.