Why no destroyers?

[S.R. Krol]

From John Hawkins (designer of War Plan Pacific) interview for our monthly newsletter a couple of months back:

"Later on, I dropped Destroyers as well. With DDs in the game, the number of ships on a side was much huge. Even grouping them into Squadrons instead of individual ships made the number of units unworkable for the time frame. Plus, the larger number of units didn’t fit well with the relatively small number of locations to send them, so keeping DDs meant adding more locations, so the growth in playtime was geometric instead of linear."