Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25167983-20140920042842

Soo... after thinking a bit, I've thought of three ships that need kai nis... like ASAP.

Zuikaku - Seriously... Pretty much the last IJN standard carrier to sink and with quite the respectable war record as well, this girl is being matched in firepower by the kai ni CVLs... C - V - Ls. It's almost insulting really (I say almost since RJ was pretty much the entire naval air support for much of early WWII Japanese expansion into the Phillipines and parts of Southeast Asia and Jun'you also did good and actually survived whereas Zuikaku... well...). Both of the Shoukakus could use a buff actually, but Zuikaku is by far the one who's earned hers first.

Yahagi - Well, what's there to say about her? Escorted Yamato during Ten-Go, pretty much tanked several torpedoes and bombs from the ensuing aerial bombardment before sinking, and while it may not count for much, her captain survived, making him the only destroyer captain to live through the entire war (just pulling that from our own wiki page if it sounded familiar to anyone). That kind of resilience might, just might rival Johnston's...

Takao - Okay, so why don't we finish up kai niing the Myoukou class first? Well, first off, Haguro earned herself a reputation great enough for the Allies to conduct an operation with the primary intent of sinking her and Myoukou... she survived the war. She didn't do anything exceptionally extraordinary or outstanding (helped here and there, assisted in sinking the Hornet) but she did make it, though she was also scuttled eventually. Now Takao... also survived the war. On top of helping sink one of the USN's aircraft carriers (also assisted in sinking Hornet), she furthermore survived an encounter with a battleship (two actually, the Washington and South Dakota) and along with her sister, Atago, assisted - unsuccessfully - Kirishima in fighting them off. But, she did escape and survive from an engagement where the Americans otherwise held an advantage. Her fate was pretty much the same as Myoukou's though - ending up as a floating AA battery, but instead of being scuttled, she wound up as a target ship for a light cruiser...

There are actually quite a few others I'd like to see, but I think these three are the most pressing.