Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180228055907/@comment-26574811-20180304105316

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Vcharng wrote: Oh great, the description of Mk30 mentioned the REAL American DEs... Time to reclassify Kaiboukans as PF (as we should have done years ago), finally? Yes please.

But seriously though, how would Tanaka classify the real destroyer escort as? It would be best if they were given their own class of 護衛駆逐艦 (goei kuchikukan), but I have some fears that they would classify them as destroyers (with weaker stats)

Granted devs did introduce CVLs as proper category when the IJN proper had no such classification, but still... I don't think KC would classify ships THAT far. They didn't even distinguish CVE and CVL, why should they distinguish DE and DD? As for CVL, it has to be done, classifying the Chitose as the same as Akagi would mean that those CVLs will be treated as "just a smaller CV", and seriously limiting their usage in combat. DEs, on the other hand, aren't principally different from DDs, their difference is simply equivalent to that between Matsu-class and Kagerou-class. It is even less possible, to the extent that we can declare it implausible, that DEs be classified as Kaiboukans. Classifying US DEs (especially given the fact that DEs having Mk30 are late model ones) would mean suddenly making Japanese PFs useless overnight. Plus, DEs can carry torpedoes, while PFs can't.