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Originally Posted by TorpX
I had suspected something of this nature might be the case. There is a very large discrepancy between claimed tonnage and JANAC tonnage.
If I were to attempt to construct a SH4 traffic campaign, I think it would be better to use the overall number of Japanese ships/tonnage and lay down patterns accordingly, than to try to recreate every convoy the Imperial Japan formed (or recorded).
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I think that a more accurate guesstimate of shipping traffic for Japan would be to basically mirror that of England during the war. I would expect that the two countries had similar requirements and capabilities; each being island nations dependent upon shipping to fill their wartime needs. Japan may actually have exceeded the shipping capacity of England in the early years of the war.