Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-2605:6001:F447:8400:D8E3:DC8F:8229:C1D8-20180410002908

Rizgis wrote:

Idea 1: Giving us reasonable destroyer that gets some special treatment in relation to stats and gets appropriate personality.

Idea 2: We will get what's basically a Yuudachi/Taszkient equivalent of a DE (pretty OP in her respective ship type). Maybe simply a combat DE? It's just an escort ship with a night battle stat of 60 to 70(no equips), 80 at max. Torp stat will most likely be around Bismarck's or Гангут's torpedo stat(in other words poor). Firepower would be around current escort ships level(around the 30s). You people are getting to worked over the torpedo tubes when there was only one triple launcher. Also Slightly lower? Last time I checked two guns and one torp launcher is a lot lower in terms of specifications. Also the most important thing is to look at the depth charge loadout. American DEs could carry 100+ depth charges with like 88 depth charges ready for use the rest in storage and had an impressive amount of depth charge projectors(8 depth charge projectors as well as the hedgehog.  Same with the later classes Kaiboukan in particular those after Etorofu(Hiburi class had like 16 throwers, well if you can't make something like the hedgehog or squid then having a bunch of depth charge projectors is another option).  These escort ships tended to carry a lot of depth charges per ship.

And for those of you that want to bring the Matsu class into this then the Matsu class actually seemed to suffer from conflicting requirements. Matsu class unlike escort ships had only 48 depth charges and a rather pitiful suite of anti-submarine equipment at least if it was an escort. For a fleet destroyer that would be rather normal.