Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170330044846/@comment-26574811-20170507151023

Tsubakura wrote: It is a solid argument, but then we have to deal with the next problem. The main issue is that everyone else has adapted DE, while we decided to stick out like a sore thumb and name it PF instead. Even if we are historically correct by naming it PF instead, we will be creating an inconsistency with the others. What would other think if they see DE on KC3, enkcwiki and Poiviewer, while wikia is the only one being inconsistent with the others?

For now, I will have to enlist your help into providing clarifications why PF is correct and DE isn't. I'll see what I can do about convincing the others. Let me remind you that KC community is also the only one in English-speaking world to use Kana spelling instead of Hepburn-style romaji. For example KC says "Operation Ten-Gou" while the rest of the world says "Ten-Go"; we say "Houshou" while it's usually "Hosho".

Another small story: the wikipedia entry for Operation Hoku-go is still wrongfully titled "Operation Kita" to this date (the wrong way of pronouncing the kanji "北").

Let's try not to afraid to be different, as long as we know it's right to do so. If it is clarifications and explainations of why using PF that you need, just copy what I stated above and post it where those DE/DDE supporters are visiting.

I'll give you a re-organized version in case it is preferred to have one:

Why not DE/DDE:

1. DE usually has torpedos, of the 5 DE classes the USN commissioned during WWII, 4 of them have torpedoes, while Kaiboukan in IJN don't, what's more, in KC they are DEFINED not to have one.

2. DEs are usually 1500~2000 tons full load, while Kaiboukans are 740~860 tons, much closer to frigates and corvettes.

3. When American DEs and kaiboukans appeared in the same navy (ROCN/ Taiwanese navy), they are classified differently. DEs became frigates (USS Decker, DE-47 >>>> ROCS Tai Ping, F-22), while kaiboukans became PF (IJN Kaiboukan #40 >>> ROCN Cheng An, PF-72)

Why PF/PG:

1. Kaiboukans are much closer in role and design to British Flower-class corvette, which received the classification symbol of PG in USN service.

2. Japanese Kaiboukans received PF classification when given to ROCN (Taiwanese navy) after the war.

3. The definition of PF is a frigate that "plays a role similar to RN corvettes", which includes the Flower-class. And the Flower-class corvettes are very similar to the Japanese kaiboukans.

if people can't accept PF anyway or insist to follow the devs closely, we may very well use E for escort, it is nearly impossible to be wrong...or KB for KaiBoukan. Remember: the proper USN classification for battlecruisers is CC, but everyone uses BC instead. If we can't find a USN symbol that everyone agrees, we may very well come up with our own, just like what we did with CAV and BBV. And we will not be the only ones, the mobile game "Atlantic Fleet" also forged the term HK for German "auxilliary cruisers" or Hilfskreuzers.