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Originally Posted by ricnunes
Yeap the Balao can be considered an "updated" Gato but nevertheless I hope that they include the Balao on SH4. Note that more Balaos existed and therefore more Balaos saw action on the Pacific than the gato. It would be real bad if the devs decided to leave the Balao out of the game!
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This is not quite true. Yes, there were, eventually, more Balao's than Gato's in the Pacific, but the Gatos ran more war patrols than the Balao's and Tench classes combined. The latter 2 classes came out much later when targets were becoming scarce. The Gatos bore that brunt of the fighting as well as the earlier boats.
The Balaos numbered 105 boats compared to the Gato 54 by war's end, but the Gatos ran 587 patrols to the Balao 423.