Talk:Winter 2016 Event/@comment-26325008-20160209163951/@comment-4125495-20160209200353

Aside from Shinano, escort carriers and incomplete/paper ships like the Ibuki or the A-150 Battleship, DDs are pretty much the only IJN ships they can add to the game at this point. Japan built a lot of Destroyers. We're still missing one Mutsuki-class, four of the Fubukis, four of the Ayanamis, two Hatsuharus, a Shiratsuyu, two Asashios, two Kagerous, ten (!) Yuugumos and ten or eleven Akizukis (it's eleven if you count Michitsuki which was still under construction at the end of WW2).

Given all that I can't understand why people are clamoring for the Matsu class. There were 32 Matsu/Tachibana-class destroyers completed, and they'll all be inferior to existing DDs. Same for them adding the precursor to the Mutsuki class (Minekaze / Kamikaze) - they shouldn't need to add those when there's 26 ships in existing non-Akizuki DD classes.

It's likely always the Shiratsuyu, Kagerou and Yuugumo classes simply because they had (and still have) a lot of big gaps in them and they can give them pretty competitive stats with the other DDs. And the artists involved with those classes seem like they tend to be available more often. It'd be nice to see them go back and fill out the earlier classes though.