Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20151228053652

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Qunow wrote: while that's pretty much useless after USA changed their plan, wasn't the plan still remain in place and being followed for quite a while even after the war start according to what I read? Well, the Japanese still follow the doctrine for quite some time, up until their devastating loss in the battle of Midway. The Americans on the other hands no longer have the slow battleships (temporarily) for their entry to the Pacific Theater, so they have to improvise their plan with the Yorktown-class carriers (including the well-famed Enterprise) after their first-hand experience of Pearl Harbor.

That being said, I thought we were discussing about Allied ships here... looks like it's easy to go off topic here it seems. Well... not quite.

The Japanese actually follows the 9-stage shit all the way to the end of the war, officially. But under Admiral Yamamoto, who was one of the biggest opponent agaist the doctrine, they altered the way of implementing the doctrine a bit (while still expecting a Kantai Kessen to conclude the war). If the Japanese actually followed the doctrine, there shouldn't be an attack on Pearl Harbor to begin with, let alone Coral Sea, Midway, or Operation FS.

The Americans discarded War Plan Orange because the plan was based on Mahan's (a famous naval scholar) thoughts, which was proven wrong by the fact that the USN actually recovered much quicker from Pearl Harbor than Mahan predicted.

Coming back to the topic of Allied ships... I think the devs will have to come up with a story to explain why US and Japan are fighting together, but it should not be a problem. After the establishment of Japan Self-Defense Forces, nearly all (yes, I mean it) fictional military novels in Japen (yes, they do exist) features fighting with the Americans. There shouldn't be any problems for the ship girls and the Japanese TTKs coping with that.