Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-32063720-20170526141559

Archer88 wrote: Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Amoex wrote: Please do not come up with imaginary term like EE, you're not qualified to do so. We don't need qualifications to make fanspeaks and imaginary terms in fandom for our own designation.

If you insist on qualifications, it's the people in Naval History and Heritage Command who recommended to categorize them as "escort ships" when Tsubakura asked them about it. Personally I see no reason to call those ships anything else than what's written on their shipcards. As you can see, it's not written as "destroyer escort" or "patrol frigate", simply "escort" which in my opinion is the word we should use. As for abbreviation purposes it can be shortened simply to E, but if people insist it must be two letters than it can be either   ES  (could mean   "escort ship" or just another shortened form of EScort), EV (which stands for "escort vessel"). Bt  w, like you said it's what NHHC recommended, however their recommendation didn't stop most of the community to keep push  ing for DE/PF. Finally there is EE, which is nothing more than extending E to look more like BB or DD. But in any case, I think the first letter should be E, just need to decide what the second letter should be, if any.

Also if it remains DE, it may cause a confusion in the future whenever Matsu-class is implemented, unless devs call them "destroyers" like the rest of our DDs. Matsu-class are outright destroyers. full stop. The japanese classified them as destroyers. They are armed comparable to the Kamikaze class of DDs, which we already have ingame and are classified as destroyers.

Kamikaze-class armament: 4x 120mm guns, 3x2 53cm Torpedoes.

Matsu-class armament: 3x 127mm guns, 1x4 61cm torpedoes - Type 93.