Id rather see a Destoyer Command expansion for SHIII than anything else. It seems that half the fun is gone without having a surface fleet to play with.

In a DD though you would be in a lot of trouble when an enemy BB came along, or you were outnumbered. Even if you were just against enemy subs I don't think it would work well. The point of a sub is to sink ships without any warning, It wouldn't be much fun just to sail around until you explode and sink :P

I suppose if you were escorting a convoy and the merchants sank instead of you and you had to find the sub it could work :hmm:

I just hope a dynamic campaign, where the tide of war can be turned, will be available. It'd be nice to prolong the war because of my actions... or shorten it if I shoot the neutrals/friendlies

Are you kidding? The Japanese had amazing subs. Some were faster underwater than the Americna Gato class. Other's were larger and carried up to three floatplanes. Wouldn't you love a sim where you could surface and launch (and fly) floatplanes to get your recon info?
Of course there are also the mini-subs and then the sub-launched kaiten (suicide subs). Commanding the Japanese in SH4 will be more fun than any of the previous games in the series (and that's saying a lot).

The only thing the Japanese did historically that limited their sub force's impact in the war was that they only targeted warships. It was not in the Bushido spirit to attack non-combatants. Attacking hevily escorted warships is not really the best use of a sub force and they naturally suffered for doing so. Still, they managed to sink 2 or 3 of the US's 6 fleet CVs in 1942. They also sank the CA that had just delivered the atomic bomb to tinian. Imagine if they had intercepted that CA a few days earlier.

Japanese torpedoes were also very good, not suffering from the 60% dud rate that American ones did. The Japanese had concentrated back in the 1930's on making the torpedo the centerpiece of their Naval strategy. Air-launched, surface-launched, and sub-launched torpedoes were all of excellant quality and reliability. The most famous of these was the "long-lance" employed on surface ships but other Japanese torpedoes were just as spectacular.

As for finding targets, well, I think you would have targets a plenty if you were willing to go after non-combat ships like tankers and cargo ships. All of those bases the US captured during the war had to be resupplied you know.

Roger Bacon

I can't believe more people haven't commented on that Mike. That is axactly what we need! Do away with a little more of the arcadish type of features and give us more nitty gritty control and enviroment. The realistic Targeting is the bast part we have now in SHIII, having to figure out the AOB, speed of the target, input the distance, ect. But the other items you mention would be awesome! :up: In old subs(WWII/SHIII type) how about having to crank the torpedoes by hand to load up an empty tube. ;)

I certainly don't think you'd be wasting your time. I'll bet a lot of people would like more as you put it so well.

Cheers,

OneTinSoldier

I totally agree