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Originally Posted by Gibus
Bonjour,
I think it's a mistake to compare SH3 GWX and SH4.
The Japanese were not as competent as the Anglo-Saxons for ASW, and I think this is very well rendered in the game.
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Comon mistake:
Battle of Badung Strait.
One of the most unbelievable (night) battle I ever heard of. 4 IJN destroyers defending 2 slow moving, damaged transport ships, against:
3 cruisers, 7 destroyers, 2 submarines and 20 aircrafts.
Allied losses: 1 destroyer sunk(long lance), cruiser and destroyer damaged
IJN losses: 3 damaged destroyers
The first Allied vessels to engage were the submarines USS Seawolf and HMS Truant. Both attacked the Japanese convoy on 18 February, but did no damage and were driven off by depth charges from Japanese destroyers. Later that day, 20 planes of the United States Army Air Forces attacked the convoy but succeeded only in damaging the transport Sagami Maru.
The Japanese were aware that their invasion convoy was likely to be attacked again, so they retreated north as soon as possible. The cruiser Nagara and the destroyers Wakaba, Hatsushimo and Nenohi were well away and took no part in the action. The last ships to leave were the two transports, each escorted by two destroyers. Sasago Maru was escorted by Asashio and Oshio; the heavily damaged Sagami Maru was escorted by Michishio and Arashio.
The first Allied group—consisting of the cruisers HNLMS De Ruyter and Java and the destroyers USS John D. Ford, Pope, and HNLMS Piet Hein—sighted the Japanese in Badung Strait at about 22:00 and opened fire at 22:25 on 19 February. No damage was done in this exchange of fire, and the two Dutch cruisers continued through the strait to the northeast, to give the destroyers a free hand to engage with torpedoes. Then Piet Hein, Pope and John D. Ford came into range. At 22:40, a Long Lance torpedo from Asashio hit Piet Hein, sinking the Dutch destroyer immediately. Asashio and Oshio then exchanged gunfire with Pope and John D. Ford, forcing the two American destroyers to retire to the southeast instead of following the cruisers to the northeast.
... I believe, that IJN forces, are strongly underestimated in stock SH4. Maybe they never had ASDIC as effective as RN had, but surely they weren't newbies.