Talk:General Discussion/@comment-114.79.58.198-20140929111452/@comment-24332640-20140930223451

Oh, and on the subject of the Akizuki class:  They were well-regarded DDs historically but that was mainly because of their superior AA capability (a critical weakpoint in most IJN ships, frankly). They were also the first IJN ships to come with radar standard (rather than being retrofit). But their torpedo armament was actually a downgrade from earlier destroyers and I don't think their ASW capabilities were anything special.

The thing is, in terms of stats KanColle has always been a little wonky about AA. Just about every ship in the game has much stronger AA than it really should, and the AA stat itself doesn't matter as much as it ought to. So in the context of the game a ship specialized for AA isn't very exciting, even if historically it was a bit advantage...