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Old 12-11-08, 09:02 PM   #25
Seawolve44
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Turbosquid even has a very nice Graf Zeppelin Flugzeugtrager, which never got completed during WWII. But wtf!?!?! $200! Would have been a great one for an extension to ivank's TSWSM, with the other Z plan warships.

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPrevie....cfm/ID/338334

What I would say is the Nagato model is a seemingly fair price by looking at its superior quality. I have brought this topic up before that I would love to see the Nagato and Mutsu come to life in SHIV. Although these two battleships saw minimal duties during WWII, but these two ships were without doubt important to Japan, with its eight powerful 16 in. guns, it was the second most powerful class of battleships in the Imperial Navy, only to the Yamato class. Its origins from the First World war, when Japan was a close ally to the entente powers, where the Japanese navy had adopted many concepts from the British, one example was the Kongo class Battlecruiser/Fast battlship, which employed similarities to the britsh battlecruisers. However in 1920, Japan was building its first igneous super-dreadnought, entirely from Japanese design, the Nagato class, which was matched by the US's West Virginia class battleships and its 8 16 in. guns, as the most powerful battleship in the world. The Nagato became the flagship of the Imperial Navy until the Yamato's commision in 1941. The Mutsu blew up in July of 1943 by a fatal cordite combustion. The Nagato went on to be the only Japanese Battleship to survive the war afloat. Enough of the lecture of history....:p

IMHO These two battleships are hard to leave out in th game, they still EXISTED during WWII, it would be cool to have a what if naval battle involving all the Japanese and US Battleships and their escorts ofcourse, which I make in the mission editor. And see who is the last navy standing.:p Or how bout a Mutsu conspiracy theory: Sunk by a US submarine sneak attack, not by a fatal explosion by cordite.

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Seawolve44

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