Should the Japanese even have a convoy system in the early war? I understand its important to have warships around to make the game harder and more fun but I always thought that was one of the Japanese flaws, they didn't protect their baggage train. I like the idea of realistic escorts for an option I also agree that there shouldn't be heavy cruisers or a destroyer squadron escorting some merchant ships. I'd like to see an option for aggressive escorts and another option for smaller escort ships. I really think there should be a lot more sub chasers, corvettes, gun boats, and so on escorting smaller early war merchants. Also, barges were very common in supplying smaller Japanese outposts. Most of the interdiction of these would have been by PT boats but submarines did go gun to gun with them as well.
Its a great game but I think its a bit overboard when you have a Mugami heavy cruiser, two Kumas, and a squadron of the IJNs heaviest destroyers as your default escort group for a modest sized convoy in 1942.
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