Talk:Type 95 Depth Charge/@comment-29608596-20170503060105/@comment-26350588-20170503181317

While I can't find specific information on the Japanese counterparts, the look of this is equivalent to the standard depth-charge racks used for sustained drops along a line, which was first introduced in WWI, and pretty standard in the US fleet in WWII, however the projectors were coming into favor... they literally throw the charge in a specified direction (ie kinda like what one sees in the ASW attack in the game) so that the chasing ship doesn't have to pass nearly directly over the sub. If I recall, Japan's coastal defense fleet mostly used these, where as their open water fleet used some of these but mostly projectors by WWII. Really no point in upgrading the coastal guard, as it really was meant to be a last resort anyhow, although I do believe historically they were actually far more effective than the open-water fleet, granted "shallow" (few hundred feet) water helps in that respect (harder to get away from the targeted depth). So it could be that these have a bonus for DE ships. Sadly not enough people testing these, and not yet many DEs around, due to the event still on-going. Or it could be like some things where devs decide to introduce something after the event that uses them.

Or, well, it could just be junk for junks sake, look at the torpedoes added for kamikaze... ship time and dress correct, basically useless since we're going "backwards" in technology (that hard balance to stop power creep while still adding more and more complicated mechanics ftw!).