It can be done, but it creates one problem. Unless the game offers you a new sub, you can't switch, so you would be stuck with the DD throughout the entire campaign. And I would not want to get a mission to patrol where I may run into a task force and have a DD.
But it would be an idea if there was a way to change or pick a sub before a mission.

Peabody

Yeah, it would be something you'd likely only use for single missions, not a campaign.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4488/kn02589kn4.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/k...jpg/1/w740.png

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...01/kn02589.jpg


then we can re think of emplementing my old WIP playable Ko Hyoteki at a later date too, just for the sake (gets you drunk if japanese ;) ) of a few missions like Pearl, Sidney Harbor, okinawa etc.. might be fun !

more info :
http://www.combinedfleet.com/Okinawa.htm

will post a picture of midget carrying DD from the book I-Boat Captain later.

Keltos

and for some actual war time footage of both IJN and USN subs, including long range missions of IJN to Germany (and some great footage of the Graf Spee, German U boats) including on board action shots of US boats...

enjoy..(these are in the public domain)

http://www.archive.org/details/VAS_1...Southern_Cross

http://www.archive.org/details/VAS_21_Full_Fathom_Five

You could make a british x-craft as well.

You give them 2 "mines."

The weapons are easy. Make a new torpedo with a short eject distance and a VERY slow speed, and short range. Meaning that you get maybe 50-100 yards from your target (say Takao at anchor near Singapore), then fire the "mines" and they move towards her at the sort of speed that allows you to escape the blast.

http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/X-craft.jpg

tater

Great idea, tater, just wrong thread. I don't think in the Japanese Campaign we want to blow up the Takao.;)

Peabody

Depends on how you judge IJN and IGHQ decision making in 1941 ;)

tater

I'm trying to get the fsnofhsoohre Ko hyoteki working.... :damn:

It is working, read your PM.

Peabody

and what about one of these for the last part of the war ? :

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4951/7e932d96ef4.jpg




:D

btw :

when I started it on top of the Jyunsen B mod I got a japanese triple AA showing !!! I don't honnestly know how, if I did my Type AM woudl have those instead of the german twin or wuadruple AAs, yes Sir !

Keltos

from the book I-Boat Captain :

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8628/ddmidgetjo4.jpg

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/d...pg/1/w2444.png


here is goes : notice how little armament she carries....

Keltos

who could mod that ???

keltos

He said they were converted to carry Kaitens, that is not a Kaiten?????

Peabody

the caption reads : "midget subs launched from the deck of fast moving destroyers were a surprise to the U.S. Navy".

those look like Ko Hyoteki !!!!!!!


keltos

What's with all the !!!!!!!!!! The Ko Hyoteki is not a Kaiten. :hmm: I was just commenting he said they were converted to launch Kaitens and you show a picture of them converted to launch a minisub. :doh: I guess I'm just confused. :doh:

Peabody

I showed the picture of a Ko-Hyoteki carrier DD, that's all, I asked who could mod it like it was in the picture I found in my book, but I didn't see that Tater's had Kaitens on it...

If we had one, we could place it at the start of a midget sub mission, so you could see it when leaving for combat ? That's not a "I want it now" comment, just a reflection on stuff we could have later on, like I'm still not sure that the Ko-Hyoteki is worth the trouble, but now it's here ;)

Keltos

Trust me, you don't want them, I took them off my Sen Toku. If a planes bombs you, they have time to land, refuel, rearm, eat lunch and come back and do it again before the Triple gets turned around to face the right direction. There is a setting in the sim to set the degrees per sec. to rotate but it has a max apparently because it really should say degrees per hour.

Peabody

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

but seriously, what about taking the 3D model of the triple and replacing the german twin one in a new gunsradar file, and a new whatever.upc like you did for the snorkel ? you'd then get a fast triple looking AA wouldn't you ?

We might make new guns that way, a Kaidai twin gun for instance ?:ping:

keltos

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Peabody already replaced it with a Japanese flag. look at the first picture in the first post.

I just scaled down the 3d model of the Jyunsen B to replace the german model sitting on desk.

We have some troubles with the textures/mouse over with that screen, I used the stock version of the room to test the desk submarine.

And I like the new map made by Peabody.

keltos[/quot

I dont have words...
Outstanding!...outstanding! Great work... :D