What Are Our Home Ports in SH4?
 

Do we know what our home/spawing ports will be other than Pearl?
Will we be able to start the war in Manila?
Will Fremantle/Perth & Brisbane become home/spawing ports?

I imagine we will be able to switch home ports, as in SH3?

I wonder if we will get an advanced base in 44?



Before war, bases at Pearl Harbor and Cavite (in Manila Harbor, not Subic Bay)

• after Pearl harbor, at Freemantle (SW near Perth) under Charles Lockwood, also at Brisbane
• after Marshalls taken (Eniwetok Feb. '44), base at Majuro atoll
• after Marianas taken (Saipan, Guam June '44), base at Apra harbor at Guam
• after Carolines attacked (Pelilieu Sept. '44), base at Ulithi atoll beg. Nov '44

:ping:

No Dutch Harbor thank God. The Aleutians. Whudda miserable archipelago to patrol.

Aww. I think the Aleutians would be cool, especially with the invasions and all.

I still hope they have Cavite; if I can't cruise the Philippines I might have to go back to SHI.

For those needing R&R a "gay" time can be found in San Fansisco!!!:rotfl:

Sorry, couldn't pass up on that one!:yep:

Wulfmann

Don't think San Fran became "gay" until the 60's

Should have Pearl, Cavite, Brisbane, and Fremantle, and there should be another one in the Phillipines too, not too far from Cavite where the MTB's also operated out of.

I just hope we can stop over at places like Midway or the other liberated islands as the war progress' to top off the fuel tanks if we have to make trans pacific crossings, or the patrol will be very short. Yep, got there. Saw the sights, and turned for home.

There is Goony Island(Midway)

"Oh beautiful beautiful Midway,
The Land where the Goonybirds grow,
Oh beautiful beautiful Midway,
the goddamist place that I know."
:rotfl:

How about Java, and Darwin in the early years ?:hmm:

Aleutians must be included! Especially if we encounter snow & ice on our patrols! And we could also do a little Crab fishing...(No, not THAT sort of "crabs"....:nope:):rotfl:

Surabaja (Soerabaya) was used after the Philippines fell until Java also fell to the Japanese.

Me too. Midway, Guam, maybe a visit to the PT base at Tulagi in '42 or Rendova in '43-44.

Thanks Sailor Steve. I couldn't remember that one. Must be the odd spelling. Or I've just loaded too much useless info in the cranium.

But the island stop-overs to re-fuel would have to be places that had diesel on hand. Wouldn't want to load up on av gas, or battlewagon fuel-oil.

Can't remember if there was anything in the Gilbert, Marshall, Caroline, New Hebrides, or Solomons. Refueling at sea didn't happen, as the subs were out of contact with HQ most of the time compared to the German counterparts. And the sub tenders didn't do a lot of traveling once a sub base was established.

Plus the attitude of the combined forces knockin' out the central enemy base in a given area, and then cutting the supply routes off, and letting the other enemy held islands in the area "rot on the vine", since Hitler's Festung Europa accorded more materials and men being sent to that theater of operations, and the guys in the Pacific making do with what they had to work with comparitively.

Cool?! dont you mean Bloody freasing
:sunny:

Yeah, that too. I remember reading about some older boats patrolling there, and they didn't have the air-conditioning/heating plants of the fleet boats. In the central Pacific the crew only wore skivvies (underwear, for anyone not in the know), and in the Aleutians they wore heavy coats all the time, because the inside was so cold that condensation froze on the bulkheads.

Fun duty.

I get enough cold and snow here, so I'll take Cavite please. :D

Just remind me not to eat the local food. :oops:

The Aleutians would not be fun, there would be hardly anything around apart from snow. Though going under ice might be cool.......