Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160118125215

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Luigidude wrote: True..... Buuuuuuuuut Enterprise killed both Akagi AND Kaga, and her squadron's 1k AP bombs were likely what doomed Musashi. When a ship takes out about 16% of her enemy's surface force, that is why I get into OP territory. : / Akagi and Kaga was killed by an ambush, for one. Had Tone's plane launched and find the enemy fleet earlier and several other mishaps didn't happen, the Kidou Butai would've handed their ass a new one. Thu USN tapped their radios, disabled two of IJN's carriers and has the durable Wildcat and flight formation to take on the Zeros, but the Battle of Midway were still in IJN's favor until all that mishaps happened.

As for her service record of taking out much of the enemy fleet, that is indeed a bit too powerful to be included in the game. The solution for that is simple enough: there is no need to include her full historical strength. Again, I'll stress that game balance is more important than historical accuracy of their historical ship. in any video game development. Well actually Midway was nearly decided when all the Japanese plannes were revealed by the Americans. The "mishaps" afterwards you mentioned include, I believe, Nagumo's changing bomb load back and forth? That's actually a mistake from the planning stage, as Yamamoto refused to prioritize between bombing Midway airfield and hunting US carriers. When his subordinates pointed out this mistake, he even replied "anyone unsatisfied by my stratagy should retire from their posts now."

Anyway, more importantly, Big E never killed many ships in one run, she simply racked up a body count year by year. So she was simply nowhere more lucky than Yukikaze, it's just that she packs more ability and thus dealt more damage.