GhostSwordsman

Don't forget that the Pan-Asian destroyers and commonwealth ships also have the option of using the generic ensign or their historical naval ensigns. Which means that WG could go that route as well, and make it so the applicable ships can mount the alternate, correct naval ensign, but by default would use the stand-in KM flag they currently have, or vice-versa.

RN cruisers have those 102s, found as the main battery on Black Swan, as secondary guns. Those shoot HE ammo, always have, despite the main guns not having an HE option apart from Belfast.

You mean Bucky? (Fubuki)

G-class cup destroyer.

From the way it looked like the post-0.8.0 SE was set up, WG could definitely make it so SE only boosts ship HP and not plane HP.

If I'm honest, I'm biased against AR. I have it on a few ships and I've never noticed a difference. To me it just feels like a waste of 2 points I could use elsewhere. That said, an improved EM would stil be useful for IJN CAs and BBs.

I like the idea of Hara as another unique/legendary commander for the IJN, but personally I'd rather one of his skills improve SE like the recently announced unique PA commanders. I think it's fitting for Hara as Shigure's survival record is beyond impressive. I do like the TAE buffs though. TA isn't a good choice, imo, unless they do as you suggest and completely drop the range penalty, but that might be too much in WG's eyes from a balance standpoint. If we're just talking about generically named unique commander bros. for the IJN then I think the SE boost the PA commanders are getting would be fitting for the IJN, along with the fairly standard EM boost, both would fit well into just about all the IJN lines and these two particularly help IJN DDs be a bit more rounded overall.

Missed opportunity in my opinion. They could have called this dorm item the Hambush.

It's pretty close, not exact, but close.

Lol, why is a British shipgirl wearing German clothing?

Most of them were level 70 or just under(that fleet was Amagi, Shoukaku, Atago, Ayanami, and Fubuki), except for Ayanami(lvl 94/95) and Fubuki who is level 53 and had taken quite a bit of damage at that point. I didn't want to risk her sinking and potentially lose out on the boss drop from the hunter fleet. I think the enemy fleet levels in C3 are in the upper 60s.

Mfw, I'm casually going through the event hard mode, on C3, take out 3 fleets with my mob fleet where I'm grinding exp on ships and move them as far away from the hunter fleet as possible, then go and wipe out both hunter fleets with my boss fleet, only to have the boss node spawn on top of my mob fleet, literally. The kicker is I hit the wrong retreat button and backed out of the whole sortie, instead of just making my mob fleet retreat so my boss fleet could move in to kill it...

While I agree with your last statement, Zao's HP change is really old. 0.5.2 is when it was applied, looking back at the change logs. Back then there were only 3 T10 cruisers, Zao, Des Moines, and Hindenburg, if I'm recalling correctly. And as someone who's recently acquired Zao, I do have to say that sometimes the lower HP just doesn't feel right, even with SE Zao doesn't break 45k HP(heck, with the current SE, Zao barely gets the HP she lost back, still missing the mark by about 600 HP). Not saying that she needs a buff or this buff, but I wouldn't be opposed to her getting back the HP she lost long ago, nor do I think at this point in the games development that it would make much of a difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Tosa There, is that real enough for you? That's certainly more real than Montana...

Oh, they do? Sorry, I apologize for my ignorance on the topic of RN ships. I just haven't looked into them really at all beyond the most basic of basics, like class succession and such.