Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-900265-20180411103532

Vcharng wrote: 2605:6001:F447:8400:D8E3:DC8F:8229:C1D8 wrote: Vcharng wrote: CVB was the most historically correct choice we had. The KC wiki only began to be anti-historical at the choice of DE.

And if you want to even talk as equals to me, go get an account first. So that when you have some wrongdoing as you are doing now, we have a way to track you down. No they were just called CVs. Taihou was not big enough to be called a CVB. You really are a shitter Vcharng You definitely live in alternative reality then. The only US carrier to be considered equivalent to "armored" carrier is the Midway class, which was briefly classified as CVB, that's where the designation came from. We were fully aware that CVB does not refer to the "armored" status, but "large" carrier, but that was the closest thing we can get. And if "Taiho was not big enough" can be used as an excuse, than Akagi, Kaga and Shinano would be unable to be considered as fleet ("standard") carriers, as American fleet carriers require a faster speed. I'll leave it to the mods for your language offense.

Back to the DE thing, even if we consider CVB as somewhat anti-historical it's still nowhere near the extent of DE being applied to Kaiboukans. I warned the folks here about the possibility of the "real" DEs, and they were like "we'll think when they actually comes". Well, and now the US DEs really are coming... and it is observable that they will be a kind of DD, either as an independent DE or as a kind of DD, since the devs mentioned nothing about comparing them with the KBs. So either way, we will face a conflict of terms, no matter if DE actually have their own API or not. We will need to give (or, "return") the designation of DE to Sammy B and her probable sisters, and find something else for those Japanese Kaiboukans.

To heckle, I do think that was the USN think during ww2 when they encounter the Kaiboukans then on cold war changed it to Escort afterwards.

"These ships were the Japanese equivalent to Allied destroyer escorts and frigates."