Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180630051239/@comment-2132878-20180714182125

The Body Robber wrote: if you ask me its impressive any DD can equip daihatsu. do any of you know how big daihatsu are? the only way historically a DD would be able to bring a daihatsu is if shed get rid of all the equipment on her aft section and it would probably inconvenience the 3rd turret. that means reduced firepower and AA and no ASW for just a single landing craft. how i see it, if in KC a DD equips more than 1 daihatsu we would essentially have to rip off most of the superstructure to make place for those things That is an interesting point, actually.

A cursory skim through wikipedia reveals that a vanilla daihatsu boat is 14 by 3 meters. A WWII-era DD is something like 100 by 9 meters, meaning three daihatsu are roughly half her length. Not to mention stuff like slopes, well decks and living accomodations for 70 dudes per boat.

It also reveals that, big surprise, no frontliner DD ever carried them. Some other DDs did, mostly ancient WWI ships that were later reclassified as escorts. Yes, DE lolis should be able to haul Daihatsu with some love. And even then shoving a 14 meter boat up your rear warranted things like removing smokestacks, which would mean retyping to Slow.

Some bigger "unwanted" ships were also converted into Daihatsu haulers, most notably Kitakami.