Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170514083426/@comment-26574811-20170514121928

IMide wrote: Tsubakura wrote: I have the following interesting point NegZer0 has raised in the reddit thread here. Apparently, he also claims that DE are not destroyers.  >In the massively unlikely event that they did add them and they were labeled 'escort' on their card as well

Knowing Tanaka, seeing that he put Kasuga Maru/Taiyou as a CVL, it's actually far more likely than NegZer0  thinks.

On a related note: http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/index_ships_list.php

So DEs were also called "escorts"?

One reminder: In the original IJN classification, there's no CVL, no CVE, just CV. They did further classify CV, but they did so by whether the ship is a "born" carrier i.e. whether it was converted or built as a carrier.

We refer to Taiyo as CVE solely because she did engage in convoy escort. Aside from that, Taiyo is just a CVL, or even just a CV. Tanaka had to give the CVL classification for balancing and other game-related issues (or what? Hosho having the same repair cost with Akagi? hell no!), but that doen't mean he would do this again for Taiyo.

However in the case of corvettes, I think they will be put under the same category. There's no point adding a second sub-DD category in a browser game.

As for that NegZer0, if he agrees that KBs are corvettes and frigates, why would he think PF is wrong? PF is defined as a "frigate similar to commonwealth corvettes"!