Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171007024755/@comment-32781876-20171023150642

Hol' up!

Everyone is talking about Battle of Leyte Gulf but look at the announced drops. We will have british DD (most popular operation of british DDs was sinking of Haguro), we will have DE (which should indicate that we are going for something rather close to Japan islands) and most importantly we will have Suzutsuki.

I have history book about IJN and there it's written that Suzutsuki was based at Rabaul. After receiving torpedo strike from u.s. sub she was pulled back for repairs. That was in January 1944. After returning Suzutsuki was attacked again by u.s. sub (she will hate them, that's for sure) on October 16th, which is only a week before Battle of Leyte. She lost large part of her bow in that attack so she definitely wouldn't participate (I couldn't find her in fleet records). She only fought one last time alongside Yamato during Operation Ten-Go. So....maybe it's just not going to be about Leyte.

Of course then there's this annoucement. But what if what they meant by "large naval battle" was more like "very important as a sign of fighting spirit" or "very important as a tactical manouver."? I ain't japanese speaker (tough I started learning the language) so I can't say anything, but derpy translation by our dear uncle Google uses phrase "developed with single large naval battle as a motif." So it might be a rewrite of historical battle. What I'm going for is this:

What if we are going to get to fight a SUCCESSFUL operation Ten-Go. Given that it's small-scale event, this would work out (Distance from Kure to Okinawa is not that big) and given the amount of ships americans had covering the invasion would qualify for "large naval battle" if it happened. Also it would have huge tactical meaning (stopping the invasion). Only thing I'm not sure about is how it would connect/follow-up with winter event (strike at u.s. west coast maybe? coming back to europe maybe? (we did clear the passage a little during summer) I am also not sure how this would connect with kancolle world lore (is land control that important for abbyssals?) but I am convinced that my essay gives enough information for you guys to form your own opinions.

Wait...

I forgot about Kai Ni's. I don't really know how meaningful Kai Ni's are for such theorizing, but from my experience (started playing autumn 2016, so not much of it) actual drops were more of a hint than announced Kai Ni's.

That being said, I'm looking for your ideas as well, fellow TTKs

Hobby Historian, signing out,