Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24978536-20150603014528/@comment-4125495-20150603040846

If it's just one carrier, my money would be on Shouhou. The term they've used is generic 'aircraft carrier', can refer to both CV and CVL.

I'd be annoyed if the CL turned out to be Noshiro, or any of the Agano class really, unless they make them a bit easier to get hold of. Personally I've had Agano many times though drops and LSC (event before last, she dropped comically often for me) and a pair of Yahagis, but Noshiro constantly avoids my LSC attempts and never wants to drop in events, and there's no other way to obtain her. I've always had the impression that part of the Kai2 reasoning is often to encourage players to pick up and use ships they wouldn't have normally used as much. If you go through the list, that's the case for quite a few of them, if you go back and look at them in context. Bismarck aside, they also tend not to give Kai-2 to ships that are event-only or extremely rare and hard to obtain.

I'd expect the CL to be either Tama or a Nagara class. Nagara and Natori are in the most dire need of art upgrades (they're ultra-generic IMO) and Kuu Ro Kuro has improved heaps and is capable of vastly better work - see Amagi, Katsuragi. Like Isuzu, Nagara had a further remodel in 1944, removing her seaplane catapaults and some of her 14cm guns for added AA, radar, depth charge rails and hydrophones, so there's historical precedent there. On the other hand, Nagara and Natori both already have stats on par with the Sendai sisters, where Yura, Kinu and Abukuma are much lower (and Kinu and Abukuma both have high ammo consumption for no obvious reason). The other possibility is probably Tama (Kuma is already pretty good) who had a 1944 remodel in the same style as Nagara - removal of the catapault, added AA, added radar.