[Admiral Von Gerlach]

I'm Going Down, please be respectful about the Japanese Campaign, the team mostly Peabody and Keltos have done a HUGE effort on it and it is in the works, such projects take time and effort and cannot be rushed to be done right. We all support this wonderful project and totally understand the demands of life that delay and make such projects a labour of both love and time. It will come when it is possible.

The Subs that are released as a stand alone pack were developed for the Campaign and will be a feature of it once some bugs are worked out that appeared during development of the boats....which were conversions of various other subs ....but the problems that appeared dont prevent you from enjoying seeing those fine IJN boats in action.

As for the question about the rivalry between the IJN naval forces and the Imperial Army it had its roots in the history of the great families of Feudal Japan, some westerners call them clans, but such families were the main organizing structures in the life of the nation in the hundreds of years of wars that were a feature of pre Shogunate Japan. When Japan modernized, two families led the development of the land army and the Navy, two DIFFERENT families, one for each service branch. There was great rivalry between them, and it continued in various forms up to the modern era. It has a profound effect on the allocation of resources, the success or failure of various key projects including a plan by the Navy to bomb both the Panama Canal and the major West Coast Cities of the mainland USA, both projects failed because the IJN did not have the resources including fuel at a time when such attacks might have made a huge differnce. The Army which DID have those resources refused to work with the IJN.... so that was the source of that rivalry.

Best regards to you Peabody and I hope things are ok in your world, and hi to Keltos as well.