View Full Version : How about some Maru's...
Barkhorn1x
02-20-07, 12:19 PM
...to keep us busy??
http://silenthunter4.uk.ubi.com/ships.php
Hat tip to SimHQ for this one.
Barkhorn.
flintlock
02-20-07, 12:24 PM
Excellent. Thanks for the heads-up. Still nothing on the dev diary, though their bios are up.
Huzza! the ships link is finally up :D
hyperion2206
02-20-07, 01:44 PM
Just looked at the German SH4 site and they didn't put up the ship recognition manual.:cry:
Just looked at the German SH4 site and they didn't put up the ship recognition manual.:cry:
Same with the U.S. site.
ohh god those ships are just begging for torpedos:arrgh!:
cant wait till i can blast open the hull on one of them:arrgh!:
hyperion2206
02-20-07, 01:53 PM
ohh god those ships are just begging for torpedos:arrgh!:
cant wait till i can blast open the hull on one of them:arrgh!:
So true, Morts!:D I'm missing the warships however. I guess Ubisoft is just sadistic and loves to see us wait in agony for every bit of information.:p
hmm
i think the SH4 devs like to tease us:rotfl:
revenge must be taken...............the first one that can make a ship skin for SH4 (when its out) where it says "SH4 Devs Located Here" on the side of it will win a...a.....a.......well nothing but it sure will be fun to blast in into the stone age:rotfl:
Barkhorn1x
02-20-07, 02:06 PM
Just looking at the Maru's again. Truely excellent model work - the detail and weathering are far superior to their SH3 predecessors.
Can't wait to "blow them up good!"
Barkhorn.
:o:o:o 16 different types so far, and all of them different and generic.:o:o:o I guess the dev team really did listen to us this time.:D No Juyusen class Coastal Tanker though.:cry: But maybe there are more to come...(I noticed there are no coastal craft there yet).
Also, a Whale Factory Ship would have been nice, but I didn't really expect one anyway.
Now I will have to update my Confirmed Ship list for SHIV, but I won't mind that at all considering the circumstances...:cool:
Sailor Steve
02-20-07, 05:22 PM
Lookin' good!:sunny:
flintlock
02-20-07, 06:06 PM
god those ships are just begging for torpedos Indeed.
But be careful sailor, some of 'em bite back!
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/idachs/subsim/001.jpg
boatfull
02-20-07, 10:49 PM
Wow! some of those Merchies are fast.:huh:
Subnuts
02-20-07, 10:58 PM
Wow! some of those Merchies are fast.:huh:
What, haven't you ever heard of the Nipon Maru? She can make the Sapporo run in 12 Shakus!
Schunken
02-21-07, 01:28 PM
Uhm....
noticed the big Tanker have for gun emplacements....:arrgh!:
so every time you attack from optimal positin three guns point at you.... :dead:
a skilled crew on this and you better consider not a surface attack on a full-moon night....:)
Andreas
hyperion2206
02-21-07, 02:06 PM
Uhm....
noticed the big Tanker have for gun emplacements....:arrgh!:
so every time you attack from optimal positin three guns point at you.... :dead:
a skilled crew on this and you better consider not a surface attack on a full-moon night....:)
Andreas
I've seen the gun emplacements as well and I wonder when the guns will be installed. Did Japanese ships have guns installed as soon as the war began or did they get them around '43/'44 when things started to turn bad?
Sailor Steve
02-21-07, 06:00 PM
Some had, some hadn't. From my reading I think most of them got guns later. What really surprised me was the number of marus with depth-charge racks. A lot of Japanese convoys had no other escort than a merchant ship with depth charges. No way to track the sub, just drop them and hope for the best.
Some had, some hadn't. From my reading I think most of them got guns later. What really surprised me was the number of marus with depth-charge racks. A lot of Japanese convoys had no other escort than a merchant ship with depth charges. No way to track the sub, just drop them and hope for the best.
I have a book writen in Japaese,
thats is correct, many of merchant had equipted a depth charge rack until 1944.
Because they doesn't escorted by war ships.
They use it not sink for the sub but give scare to the sub !!!
Trivia
Almost Japanese ships are named xxxx-maru.
But warships are named never xxxx-maru.
If it is called xxxx-maru,that ship are not belong IJN war ships.
I am surprised.Because Now days in Japan, it is hard to get
ship plans photos etc.....
They did good work !!! :up: :up: :up: :up:
Sailor Steve
02-22-07, 11:22 AM
Trivia
Almost Japanese ships are named xxxx-maru.
But warships are named never xxxx-maru.
If it is called xxxx-maru,that ship are not belong IJN war ships.
I don't speak or read any Japanese, but I thought that maru meant merchant, so there could be no warship marus.
Marus can be Auxiliary warships, though (small patrol craft etc.) :hmm:
iambecomelife
02-22-07, 11:22 PM
Nice ships, and I'm glad we will not need to give the Axis American standardized classes anymore. Many of the ships can pass for Allied types (note that several of them are described as European-built). Hopefully we can add them to non-Japanese rosters easily.
god those ships are just begging for torpedos Indeed.
But be careful sailor, some of 'em bite back!
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/idachs/subsim/001.jpg
pff they cant bite back....last time i checked they had no teeth:rotfl: :rotfl:
I wonder what the neutral/allied to enemy ratio will be like with the merchants. With SH3, you could be sure you had an enemy in your sights most of the time. I hope they included alot of other SE Asian countries.
Crosseye76
02-25-07, 08:57 PM
Boris,
There should not be too many Neutrals. Most of the other countries in the Western pacific did not have large Ocean-going merchant navies, they were mostly coastal ships. The Ocean going ships were mostly European ships and shipping lines, French, British, Dutch, U.S., Etc. By the time the war kicked off in late 1941, there were not really any Neutrals left in the area. If you tie into a convoy between Java and Japan, it's going to be Japanese ships.
Throughout the war, mainly the only ships U.S. subs had to avoid shooting were Russian, and the odd Japanese ship given "Safe Passage" by the Allies. There were a few accidents with them both, mostly involving shooting at night and / or in bad weather.
hyperion2206
02-26-07, 05:11 AM
Boris,
There should not be too many Neutrals. Most of the other countries in the Western pacific did not have large Ocean-going merchant navies, they were mostly coastal ships. The Ocean going ships were mostly European ships and shipping lines, French, British, Dutch, U.S., Etc. By the time the war kicked off in late 1941, there were not really any Neutrals left in the area. If you tie into a convoy between Java and Japan, it's going to be Japanese ships.
Throughout the war, mainly the only ships U.S. subs had to avoid shooting were Russian, and the odd Japanese ship given "Safe Passage" by the Allies. There were a few accidents with them both, mostly involving shooting at night and / or in bad weather.
Wasn't a US skipper court martialed because he sunk a Japanese ship in a storm that had been granted a save passage? I wish I knew where I read it!
@ hyperion2206 - Yes, that was the hospital ship Awa Maru.:yep: Also, near the end of the war, another skipper accidently sank a 10,000 GRT Soviet freighter, but the US tried to blame it on the Japanese instead of court-martialing him.:cool: Or so I read.:hmm:
Barkhorn1x
02-26-07, 09:35 AM
@ hyperion2206 - Yes, that was the hospital ship Awa Maru.:yep: Also, near the end of the war, another skipper accidently sank a 10,000 GRT Soviet freighter, but the US tried to blame it on the Japanese instead of court-martialing him.:cool: Or so I read.:hmm:
Good strategy in my book. :yep:
Barkhorn.
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