Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26154973-20170127091618/@comment-26574811-20170127160749

Nicky008 wrote: no any words (or even any indirectly points except Shioi fairy on Zuiun 631 :v) about it yet. The devs stated that this new equipment will be related to the historical model of the Winter Event prior to its release. After it's release I saw some claims that the devs further stated that it is NOT attack on Panama Canal. The only operation, or series of operations related to the 631th squadron besides the Canal attack would be Operation Arashi, including a smaller-scaled prelude known as Operation Hikari.

Now here's the problem, after the introduction of manual difficulty selection, the devs have made every single event open to new TTKs, but using a submarine-centered operation as the model of an event would mean no sub, no play. I think they may widen the scope of the operation as being a "seaplane attack on a certain atoll", so that newbies can use those good old Chitose-class AVs to do the job. Alternatively they may also introduce maps with different approaches to do the same job, just to prevent it from becoming a sub-only event.