Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24903916-20140611043826/@comment-24332640-20140613061446

The Spring event was kind of weird, since it was based on several mostly unrelated battles. I'm not quite sure what by "a three-day IJN cakewalk" though, since the first three maps spanned about two weeks (and the extras were months apart). And while most of the battles were small scale, each one was just one map. So no, that really doesn't support the idea of making three maps out of Operation AL.

I also disagree with your assertion that Operation AL lasted years. I assume you're referring to the occupation of two islands in the Aleutians since the actual naval battle only lasted two days (and naval battles are what KanColle is about...). But the recapture took a while because they were low priority targets, not because there was a lot of fighting over those two islands. I mean they were basically undefended when they were captured in the first place.

Finally, in terms of scale the bombing of Darwin was definitely a much larger operation than Operation AL both in terms of the number of ships involved and the damage done. And again, that was just one map. The two maps preceding it were about different battles.

Finally, the most important point:  Midway is possible the single most important and famous battle in the entire pacific war. The spring event was about several fairly minor battles, but Midway is anything but minor. The idea that there will be three maps for Operation AL (wich was minor) and only two for Midway is pretty hard to accept.