Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-460323-20170525063534

Vcharng wrote: Aircraft carriers are CV, which means aviation cruiser in French. Nevertheless, we use it because it wont confuse us with CAV.

In the case of Kaiboukans, the devs done the shit by themselves, the call it "coastal defense ships" but wrote "escort ships" on the card, and we had to try to find a USN code to fit "escort ship" and those CDS' roles the most. Still, what you said is indeed a solid argument to go for CDS or EE instead of PF. PF supporters are usually more historical-oriented than in-game-oriented anyway. I was unaware that the devs use the word "Escort" on the ship card until you mentioned it. In that case I guess I will vote for EE and suggests we change Coastal Defense Ship to plain ol' Escort Ship. I really don't see why we're going with literal translations when the devs be like "we're cool with how US (or some misquoted historian) decided to call Kaiboukan".

If in the unforeseen future that new US ships with proper classification is bundled into Kaiboukan, then so be it.

On that note, I think the fault lies on whoever that decides to go with 'escort ship' for Kaibokan wikipedia in the first place.