Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-26574811-20180328234951

Tsubakura wrote: With that said, one of the 2 can happen with the new Taffy III Destroyer Escort release: 1. is flatly impossible. Kaiboukans are dictated to be unable to fit torpedoes, but Sammy B did (historically) and will (in-game) have torpedoes. That's why a change is imminent in order to vacate the DE designation before Sammy B is introduced, so that the two definitions of DE does not collide chronologically and cause confusion. I don't know what your "obvious reason" against PF is, but I have a more obvious reason for it: Kaiboukans WERE INDEED reclassified as PF after the war. For example Tsushima became ROCS Lin An (PF-77). This is far more powerful a proof now than in the previous Kaiboukan designation war, as now we DO have Tsushima introduced.
 * 1) The new ship released is an "Escort", thus placing it in the same category as the Kaiboukans. In this case, all we have to do is rename the category "Coastal Defense Ship" to "Escort". No big deal.
 * 2) The new ship released is a "Destroyer Escort", which is a complete new category and API value. We obviously can't have 2 categories that are both DE, so you guys will have to admit that I was right all along a year ago and we will decide on a new proper classification. Also, I'm not going with PF for obvious reasons.