Probably not in any particularly prominent way, if only because the cast is already unwieldy as it is, but there are a few rattling around in the background, and we have a few cameos in mind for later eps.

Kancolle is in its tenth year now, which I suspect the original developers never expected, so the number of not only foreign ships, but also oddball auxiliaries and the like, has been going up the last little while as they've more or less run out of front-line IJN warships. For instance, since RCFR began they've added the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth and the Dutch cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter, and they recently added a Japanese utility ship called Sōya, which is not a warship at all but has, at various times, served as a lighthouse tender, a research ship, and an icebreaker. As you might imagine, being completely unarmed she's virtually useless in the context of the game, which is exclusively about combat, but she does have the highest luck stat in the entire game.

>I'm thinking along the lines of the Minas Geraes
>and/or Sao Paulo as grande dame elder stateswomen of the Allied
>contingent (even though they were a bit obsolete by WW2)

There are some true old-timers in the 14th Einherjar--we saw a few of them, at least in passing, in the big conference scene in RCFR 2. Most of them work as secretaries to the high-level representatives of their fleets in the Valhalla Admiralty (HMS Victory, for instance, is rarely to be found very far from Admiral Nelson's office, and HMS Dreadnought pretty much is the voice of Admiral Fisher).

Oddly enough, the Japanese pre-dreadnought battleship Mikasa still hasn't been implemented in Kancolle, despite the fact that people have been saying "uh, so where the hell is Mikasa" on every conceivable forum since approximately 12 hours after the game went live. I mean, granted, she was long since out of active service by the time World War II came along, but still, she is Japan's National Warship and all. :)

>or the Dutch
>submarines who were (under the evocatively named Admiral "Ship-A-Day"
>Helfrich) responsible for inflicting serious damage on the IJN despite
>reaching levels of outnumbered normally reserved for targets of the
>Bolivian Army.

Well, we've got some more submarine action coming up in RCFR 4, so I'll take that under advisement. :)

>ijn: we will take over indonesia for the glory of the japanese empire!
>dutch colonial navy consisting of like twelve boats and a kipper
>called fred:

(animated gif)

C'mon. This isn't reddit...

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