Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26183083-20150329030856

Personally, I can see British, French and Soviet ships but I think the franchise will lose its popularity and close before the first American vessel gets in. Because it gets messy and it is not even a matter of playbalance, the feelings of the Japanese kanmusu and so on.

It is probably possible to tweak things so American ships are not balance breakers. For example, the Brooklyns can be lumped into heavy cruisers (because that's really what they are except for having 6-inch guns!) and all American cruisers can have no torpedo stat. The survivability advantage will only be 1 or 2 HP and the fire control advantage can be "dispersed" into various directors and radars, allowing you to take them and put them into your Japanese kanmusu (in essence, each American ship comes with a "Mark 37 director" and a "SG radar").

Maybe we can even get it to the point where if you take off all the radars and directors they come with, US ships actually quietly have lower than average accuracy and LOS stat. And we can play games with the American destroyers pre-Kai torpedo stat (bad early-war Yank torpedoes). There are lots of ways to shaft them with at least a bit of historical justification if you look :-)

Still as we know, the Americans have a lot of ships. If Japan's ships can be clearing out as much sea area, with America's fleet, they should have cleaned out the rest of the world by now, which obviously is not the case. Further, if we say that they send ships to other countries, their vast contingent will mean a substantial presence in every country, probably outnumbering the "local" kanmusu. In short, despite how *little* canon this game has, American fleet girls will still collide with its presentation so far.

Further, while there is a move towards less explicitly USN bosses, overall the world's base is already set up by this time, and the Abyssal mooks up to the Wo-class still have great links to the Allies (whatever they are thinking, it is too late to change that). Only the torpedo cruisers they have look more Japanese than Allied. Even now we have IJN bosses on maps that look a lot like USN-attacking :-)

So, I think, unfortunately, *most* Abyssals are American. Not all, but most. Probably they are made when America tries to turn its oversized fleet into kanmusu. Unfortunately, what they failed to understand (being a Christian country) is that gods get their power from "love" - love when they are built, love when they are used, and love from the people. Since the average American wartime ship gets stamped out with record speed and there are so many of them even Americans often remember IJN ships more than their ships ... most of their ships degrade into Abyssals. America is left pinned to its coast by the Abyssal kanmusu its making, and defended by the relatively few American ships that people actually remember - the pre-war classes like Yorktown class CV and a relative handful of wartime classes that \did something people actually remember. Yet they can't stop producing, because their shipgirls are being killed like flies, and so they keep producing and keep making more of both, some of which make their away across the ocean.