It could well be that the sim's developers originally intended to include the option of five playable nations i.e. USN, IJN, KM, RN and RNethN, which would cover all navies which operated submarines in the Far East/Pacific (as SH4 is a Far East/Pacific sub sim, we can exclude other countries which operated subs in WW2 such as Poland, USSR, Italy, Norway etc.).
The numbers sequences and gaps point to such a possibility, for instance:
6065 NAVAL SUBMARINE SCHOOL
6066 NAVAL ACADEMY MÜRWIK
Now (hypothetically) add to these two:
6067 NAVAL ACADEMY ETA JIMA
6068 NAVAL ACADEMY DARTMOUTH (or, more accurately, HMS Dolphin)
6069 NAVAL ACADEMY DEN HELDER (or, because of the occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, NAVAL ACADEMY SOERABAJA)
Similarly, for Single Missions:
6070=AMERICAN SINGLE MISSIONS
6071=GERMAN SINGLE MISSIONS
adding:
6072=JAPANESE SINGLE MISSIONS
6073=BRITISH SINGLE MISSIONS
6074=DUTCH SINGLE MISSIONS
and going on to:
6075=AMERICAN WAR PATROLS
6076=GERMAN WAR PATROLS
again, adding:
6077=JAPANESE WAR PATROLS
6078=BRITISH WAR PATROLS
6079=DUTCH WAR PATROLS
etc.
Might be worth a look if it is possible to add a nation by making all the relevant files/folders and trying to get the links working. I doubt whether we can expect another addon for SH4 which would take care of this for us.
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