Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-1820055-20150826020040/@comment-26574811-20150908080143

Fearpils wrote:

I understand your point, but from what you said, 7 kai Ni's out of 48 had something to do with their original ship. But the fact that Capitals are more historical related is nice to know. We just can't demand that everything be introduced on it's corresponding historical date. For this it's only natural that devs let the larger ships be historical and work the smaller ones around them.

Still, there are some smaller ships K2ed on historical dates, like Choukai (laid down 26th March, 1928, recevied  K2 on 27th March, 2015) and Shigure (23rd October, Surigao Strait). They are relatively rare cases on smaller ships, but not on capital (especially IJN) ships. The reason might be that smaller ships receive K2 for all kinds of reasons (2nd anniversary, anime debut celebration, etc.), but almost all capital ships' K2 have historical references.

BTW, Abukuma's K2 was introduced on 17th July, 4 days later than her actual historical remodel (completed 13th July, 1944), given the fact that there were no update one week earlier, this is the nearest update to her historical reference.

Given that the 5th Carrier Division are capital ships AND that their K2 is confirmed to have historical reference, I think it is quite safe to assume that they will use one of those historical dates.