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No - haven't talked with Redwine yet - I remember seeing that thread before, and after re-reading it just confirmed that whatever RW was trying to do there doesn't seem to have worked. I guess I'll go ahead and D/L his files and take a look at them, but from the posts in that thread it sounded like those that tried it didn't get workable results either 
I guess if the Jap escorts suck at their jobs and folks have modded the encounters with planes down to minimal levels, maybe nobody is seeing any problems with battery life because there's no reason to be submerged long enough for it to become an issue - maybe that's even realistic, as perhaps the American subs just never experienced the nerve-wracking worry over whether their air or batteries would give out and force them to the surface under unfortunate conditions. If so, I'll sure miss that aspect of gameplay, compared to SH3. |
I read somewhere that the Japanese weren't even aware that our subs could dive deeper than 150 feet until some congressman leaked the info...
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Anything is possible I suppose, but this seems unlikely - I guess some racial superiority/arrogance thing might have been at work, but the info I've been able to find so far (pretty sparse and not necessarily definitive) on Japanese sub specifications indicates that their own sub types could dive to 300 feet or so, in which case it seems unlikely that they would have assumed ours could only go down half that far. |
The congressman was Andrew J. May and he leaked it in a press conference in June 1943. Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the submarine fleet, estimated that the US Navy lost 10 subs and 800 crewmen because of it.
Besides being careless, apparently the congressman was quite an unsavory character because he was convicted of accepting bribes for military contracts, too.
http://www.ww2pacific.com/congmay.html explains what happened with the press conference.
Bill