@ elanaiba - Yes, SHIV does have an excellent selection of ships overall.
The merchants selection is (IMO) the best of any SubSim ever made (including AoD
), for example. However, I really was disappointed by the aircraft carrier selection for both the Japanese and the US - I guess the dev team ran out of time, but the US really needs the Yorktown and Essex classes, and the Japanese could have used the Akagi, Zuiho class, Junyo class, and maybe the Shinano. And if I were going to choose one carrier to represent the US carrier fleet, it wouldn't be the Wasp.
One thing though - if the dev team included two variants of the Takao class, then why didn't they include the original version of the Mogami class too? Lack of time I guess - can't blame them though, with the time it took to make all the highly detailed models that we
did get.
BTW - I wonder what happened to the US Subchaser which is depicted in the list of ship pictures in the 100 page manual.:hmm: Also, if I were going to include improved SHIII models, I would have used the Small Tanker and Small Coastal Vessel models for the Allies, as they were highly detailed. Maybe the Armed Merchant Cruiser (as a transport, like Sergbuto's SHIII clone) and some more UK warships as well.