Not a lot of German traffic to sink, however.
BTW, did anyone see my post about possibly using Evarts (the US DE) as a stand-in for the kaibokan?
Similar size (evarts is too big), somewhat similar look, and Evarts has loads of W nodes for DC throwers. Evarts is slightly slower.
I could "bungo pete clone" her, easily replacing the US weapons with japanese ones---I know this because I already did it
I think I'd not have her appear at all until there were a few kaibokans around. While there were a few in August 1943, it wasn't really until the beginning of 1944 that there might have been enough to see them as often as you would pulled randomly. Course the same could be said of minsweepers or the ships she stands in for, lol. I could make her a "corvette" in which case she's simply randomly appear in current layers with MS and SC escorts. Alternately I could make her a frigate (none used in the IJN so far) and have more contol of kaibokans vs the other minor escorts.
I'm interested in feedback on this Evarts idea. I've never actually seen one in game, so it makes sense to me, course I'm also not used to being attacked by them in SH3 since I don't own SH3