Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-25938809-20150329234806

I agree that Abyssals up to the Wo-class could absolutely represent USN vessels, but given that they're an unspecific "normal" enemy, they could play the role of any carrier that the player might want to see them as. When it comes to major USN ships, wouldn't it make sense for Abyssals to take a form that more explicitly represents USN vessels...? I can't imagine USN capital ships like the Iowa or Missouri simply being represented by a Ru-Class, or the Enterprise just being a Wo-Class, especially since we have Abyssal enemies that so specifically resemble IJN vessels. I think we're really gonna have to see how the devs will represent future Abyssal bosses.

That's an excellent theory as to how the situation of other country's kanmusu may be faring against the Abyssals in their own waters. The anime touches on the idea of kanmusu being reborn as Abyssals, implying a sort of neverending cycle: For as long as kanmusu are lost in the war against the Abyssals, they'll eventually be reborn as Abyssals themselves. The game even hints as this, too: Just last event, AC Princess's sinking line mentions to the extent of "This will repeat, if you won't change..." "Change" what, exactly...? My guess is war in general, but I dunno, our seas IRL have been actually failry peaceful compared to how bitterly contested they were in WWII. Obviously, the real answer to the question is a key part of the Abyssal's goal/s and why they're blockading our seas in the first place. There's definitely quite a bit of stuff we can infer on from here, I just don't think we know enough as of yet.

If the Abyssal threat truly is global, the situation you describe in which the American kanmusu may be facing to protect their own seas could be possible. While the overall atrittion rate of the USN fleet was much less than the IJN during the course of WWII, in the same way IJN kanmusu are now fighting against Abyssalized versions of themselves, the USN kanmusu could be doing the exact same thing, perhaps with even greater rates of their kanmusu falling to Abyssals as you mention. It's pretty believable, considering 'Merica's penchant of taking advantage its of large-scale production capacity and throwing huge quantities of mateirial to eliminate the opposing force... it's totally possible might've met their match in their fight against the Abyssals.

This is seriously getting into Kancolle: Expanded Universe terriory. Super interesting stuff to think about for sure, though.