Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-124.212.158.223-20140219193132/@comment-139.193.100.28-20140220190858

Abyssal ships are officially malignant spirits of sunken ships (read Fubuki Ganbarimasu for ref). However, it's also been confirmed that they're based on US ships. This became obvious in the aftermath of the November event when devs discussed the implementation of several US-only equipment for the Abyssal Fleet then told the playerbase that kanmusu won't get these because they're US-only, and they want to stick to history. In effect, they've officially confirmed that the Abyssal Fleet is really the USN.

That said, plans to include German and British ships have been known and published formally for months, and when asked about US ships devs have also said that some might enter the game eventually, but only after German and British ships. How they'll resolve the Abyssal contradiction at that point is everyone's guess, but the Japanese playerbase have been told that US ships are under consideration.

As for plans for the IJN, eventually almost all surface ships will be in the game. IJN training cruisers and the Army-run "marus" are still under consideration. It should be noted that Maruyu actually stands in for either the entire family of 38 Type-3 submergence vehicles or the three 3001 class ones, so some ships might get this treatment. More subs are still under consideration. Two entire classes of destroyers are still missing, but it should be noted that the problem with implementing these is that when they enter the game they'll turn every other destroyer class obsolete, just as they did IRL. BBs and CAs are complete, but there are still missing CLs and CVs/CVLs. These will be implemented in the game eventually.