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Originally Posted by AirborneTD
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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. |
Ok, that the Gatos did more patrols than the Balaos, afterall the Gatos entered in service first and like the Balaos they were fought till the end of the war but the number of patrols of the Balao was also very big so I think that very few would disagree that the Balao shouldn't be included in SH4.
For example the German TypeXXI according to many sources never saw actual combat in WWII but nevertheless it was included in SH3 so I think not having the Balao in SH4 would be a
HUGE mistake from the SH4 devs. I even think that not having the Tench in SH4 is a mistake (despite seeing limited service in WWII - But so the German TypeXXI did).
But I do hope that the Balao (and even the Tench) is included as a "variantion" of the Gato.