Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171217042051/@comment-28069733-20171220140812

AnimeFreak40K wrote: Shinhwalee wrote: If you have a better explanation of the historical hints Devs gave us, please feel free to share :V Original tweet stated that the ship was a 'Mainstay Fleet Destroyer'. Given the note on the Kagerou-Class page that they were '...the backbone of the empire's first-line destroyer strength', implies that this class would be considered a 'Mainstay Fleet Destroyer'.

This is not to say that it's *not* a Yuugumo-Class that's getting the K2, especially considering that there is little difference between both the Yuugumo and Kagerou Class... but the statement in the tweet and the on the Kagerou-class page makes me more inclined to think it's a Kagerou-Class that's getting it.

The newest tweet states '...the sisters went down one after another under a difficult battlefield...'. To me, this implies Leyte Gulf as a whole, as this was the most difficult battle for the IJN that I am aware of, and the ships that were lost were of the same class and battle.

Both Shiranui and Nowaki were lost there (and Nowaki is named specifically on the wikipedia entry on the Battle of Leyte, which is a bit noteworthy as Destroyers are rarely named). Both are Kagerou-Class, both were at Leyte and were sunk there, and neither have a K2 yet.

Now, because there is little difference between the Yuugumo and Kagerou classes, it is possible that the K2 ship is still a Yuugumo-class, which then shifts my arguement to Fujinami (sunk a day after Leyte ended) and Hayashimo (lost/out of action while trying to save Shiranui)

(though they could just be talking about the war in general). If it is the same battle, only two Yuugumo-class ship was lost at Leyte that I know of, and that was Fujinami (a day after the battle) and Hayashimo (lost at the battle, written off as a loss several days later).

So for me, given the clues that have been presented, I am thinking it's either Shiranui, Nowaki, Fujinami or Hayashimo.

You might want to recheck your investigation then, because you could not have come to any conclusion other than, even if we assume the possibility that they might be referring to a Kagerou-class.

Sunk at Solomon Islands

Sunk at Davao, island south of Leyte

Sunk at Leyte Island (Ormoc Bay)

Sunk at Iloilo, island west of Leyte

Bombed around Manila

Sunk at Nippon

Sunk in open sea east of Legaspi

Sunk in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean

Sunk at Semirara Island, nowhere near Leyte Island

Sunk at the Sibutu Passage, also nowhere near Leyte Island

Sunk at Zamboanga Peninsula, which is the souternmost part of Philippines

Bombed in areas between Taiwan and China

Sunk around New Guinea

Survivors, did not sunk at all

Your first mistake was the fact that you thought the tweet was referring to the "Leyte Gulf"(レイテ湾), even though the tweet clearly has stated that it was referring to a ship that sunk at Leyte Island (レイテ島) instead. Your second mistake is the fact that your speculation never took into account as to whether the ships you had in mind actually sank in Leyte Island, which is the key hint given. Even if you take into account that 主力of主力 might have been a reference to the Kagerou-class, none of them actually really sank in Leyte Island. While could have been the other possibility, that is ruled out due to the fact that the tweet hinted that the K2 ship had sister ships.

Yesterday, I said that the chance of receiving a K2 was very high during my preliminary investigations, but I am willing to say that  is 100% confirmed now. But I guess that wouldn't stop people from trying to pray that the K2 would be lol.