Talk:Fall 2019 Event/@comment-826197-20191202055919/@comment-34544659-20191202213838

He basically gave the reason for the event mechanics: The bigger ships are too powerful. If you want to make a "hard mode" really difficult, you can't just let the players sortie a fleet full of Big 7's or CV(B)s. And if the devs would let you do so, prepare for a combined boss fleet with around 10k HP in total.

And limitations of ships types have nothing to do with limiting the event for certain nations. That would be xenophobic on the one hand, on the other hand nearly all events would be limited to only Japanese ships.

The devs try to find a middle way between historical accuracy (certain ships affecting routing, damage bonus,...) and playability of the whole event (so it's neither too easy nor too hard on the respective difficulty modes).