A tale of 54 destroyers

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Sniper297

I've never seen a destroyer armada in stock SH4, but I am at 1.4 so have no idea what's in 1.5 besides U-boats. Did you actually count 54 destroyers? Did the IJN ever actually have that many in service?

Apparently, they had 169. So, this formation would be a shade under a third of all Japanese destroyers of WW2.

The strange thing is I counted them when they were further away, and there were 29. Then 31. Then 54. More appeared to be spawning.

Here's a front view of the formation:



You can't actually ever see the entire thing in one shot.