About the day-to-day boring missions read the account of an IJN submarine skipper who survived : Zenji Orita. He changed subs a few times, did the supply runs, fired Kaitens... a must read !

read I-Boat Captain by Zenji Orita and Joseph D. Harrington, 1976.


Keltos

excellent book, i agree. also for movments and actual TROM, this invaluable source:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/sensuikan.htm

and Capt. Onita was a remarkable skipper, one the IJN can be rightfully proud of, his command shelled the oil field docks south of Goleta, just south of Santa Barbara where i live some of the time, and he has been one of the IJN officers to share info about the aborted plans to use the sub borne air assets to bomb the Panama Canal.

The Kaiten
 

IS this fired from a sub and how do you load it ?

for now yes, like a regular torpedo. it appears in the torpedo loadout.

keltos

Some of the Minekaze Class DDs were converted to carry the Kaiten as well. I know nothing of the playable ship mods, but that might be a route to consider as well.

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