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Originally Posted by WOD
But I think if SH IV will play in pacific theatre then some new wanted features should be not in the game....especially Wolfpacks. Submarine Warfare plays a minor role in the pacific and the idea of Wolfpacks in WWII are fully established by germans...so american sub wolfpacks, if it would be in the game, wouldn´t be historically correct.
Plz correct me if I´m wrong.
Greetz from Germany
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Hi,
With respect, if submarine warfare interests you, you would probably enjoy reading up a bit on the U.S. submarine war in the Pacific. You might be surprised to learn that U.S. submarines were largly succesful in economically strangling Japan, something the U-boats valiently attempted, but failed, to do to the United Kingdom. Further, if memory serves, U.S. submarines sank more Japanese tonnage than all other classes of U.S. naval vessels combined, with some boat tonnages approaching and in the case of the USS Flasher (I believe), even exceeding 100,000 tons.
Lastly, U.S. submarines did operate in small wolf packs (2-4 boats) on a number of war patrols later in the war. I believe that they were operationally different in the application of tactics in that german wolfpacks tended to be centrally controlled by Bdu while U.S. wolf packs decentralized control to a commodore commanding the wolf pack locally from one of the boats in the wolf pack itself. This was a significant difference in methods that is significant and worthy of recreating.
The U.S. submarine war in the Pacific was rich with developments in submarine warfare and was historically significant.
Cheers.
(added: USS Flasher Link)
http://www.rddesigns.com/249.html