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Originally Posted by mcoca
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Originally Posted by tater
I actually changed both the minesweeper and subchaser to type=1 (corvette), reserving the "patrol craft" for the brown water stuff. There is a frigate type as well that will work as an escort.
This allows you to set "generic corvette" and not have those idiotic river/coastal gunboats in the open sea.
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Hey, I was just going to suggest that next!  From a few Google searchs, I think the gunboats in the game should only appear in and around the China coast. Right? |
Just a thought... I dont know about the Jap gunboats, but certainly the UK's larger class of river gunboats were perfectly capable of deep sea travel, not just costal work.
I'm a modeler by hobby (build R/C boats), and have just completed an insect glass gunboat. OK these were older, originally commissioned in 1916-1918, but have done a great deal of research on them. Some of the Insect class lasted up until after WW2, and I can say as a definate fact, they were more than capable of crossing an ocean. You guys may be correct in that the smaller ones should be kept to costal areas, but the large gunboat, I would have felt would definately been capable of crossing an ocean.
Also the japanese, being as they were, used everything they had, they may well have used the larger gunboats for convoy duty closer to home to free up the destroyers for larger convoys on more dangerous routes.