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Originally Posted by Aviv
Hi guys!
What's the deal with the Japanese names of the ships (like Ryuun Maru, Taikosan Maru etc.)? Personally I don't like it, and I was wondering on your opinions on it and if someone had a list of the original names to replace. I can't recognize a ship from these names.
How did captains know the name of the ship they were sinking?
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Maru means merchant or something along those lines. The names were added to be more authentic as in RL the ID books had known japanese ships in them and is actually easier to remember once you play enough. Some ships were not exactly as they were in the ID and were close enough so in order to have something to work with and put in the report skippers would ID vessels as closest thing they had in their book and did were fairly accurate.
Can't see why you think it's easier to to remember the long drawn out names "Largew Modern" this and that as opposed to Nagara Maru.