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Bubblehead1980 · 11-02-09, 08:56 PM

very cool miner, hope you will release it soon.Will there be troops on board? Any versions armed with say machine guns? just curious As far as barges go, looking for photos.What program do you use to build ships for SH 4? I may give it a try when i have time.
Oh yea, pretty sure the daihatsu had too shallow of a draft to use torpedos on.The barge i know had too shallow draft for sure, thus why had to close in and use guns on them.

I do know that the Japanese made exstensive use of self propelled unarmed and later armed barges to run supplies among islands, esp in the Solomons.In the Solomons, it became a bit dangerous to run them during the day due to US air presence, they began running them at night, then the PT boats and some submarines caused problems, they armed them and some had escorts to ferry supplies among the solomons.They were also used in the Philippines and i imagine along other costal areas from China to home islands.

I'll search for a photo.The best image i have seen in a sim(and it was a while back) was Combat Flight Simulator 2.There was a barge in there.

ETR, no doubt you would put them in convoys at sea, just create groups of them moving along coastlines or in areas between islands like the Solomons, with escorts sometimes, not always.

I imagine the deck gun and 40 MM bofors would have fun with a daihatsu or a barge loaded with ammo, fuel, troops.

check this out, stumbled across it while searching for photos
http://www.beyondships.com/History-PTBoats.html

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Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,105 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	re very cool miner, hope you will release it soon.Will there be troops on board? Any versions armed with say machine guns? just curious As far as barges go, looking for photos.What program do you use to build ships for SH 4? I may give it a try when i have time. Oh yea, pretty sure the daihatsu had too shallow of a draft to use torpedos on.The barge i know had too shallow draft for sure, thus why had to close in and use guns on them. I do know that the Japanese made exstensive use of self propelled unarmed and later armed barges to run supplies among islands, esp in the Solomons.In the Solomons, it became a bit dangerous to run them during the day due to US air presence, they began running them at night, then the PT boats and some submarines caused problems, they armed them and some had escorts to ferry supplies among the solomons.They were also used in the Philippines and i imagine along other costal areas from China to home islands. I'll search for a photo.The best image i have seen in a sim(and it was a while back) was Combat Flight Simulator 2.There was a barge in there. ETR, no doubt you would put them in convoys at sea, just create groups of them moving along coastlines or in areas between islands like the Solomons, with escorts sometimes, not always. I imagine the deck gun and 40 MM bofors would have fun with a daihatsu or a barge loaded with ammo, fuel, troops. check this out, stumbled across it while searching for photos http://www.beyondships.com/History-PTBoats.html Last edited by Bubblehead1980; 11-02-09 at 09:12 PM.