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Faith · 01-02-18, 08:28 AM

I'd like to point out that the removal of the kanji was certainly done before the war broke out, but probably not finished on all vessels. Japan was in a great hurry to start the war before all their oil reserves ran out. With the sheer activity of certains vessels (just look at Kido Butai, working non stop without docking til May 1942), it is not improbable that a few ships still had their names painted on the hull by mid 1942.

With the destroyer division number on the bow, there is definite proof that some of the older destroyers kept it during the early months of the Pacific campaign. There is picture of a Mutsuki class destroyer, Kikutsuki, beached near Tulagi, taken in '43. The ship was damage and beached during the invasion of Tulagi, on May 3rd 1942. It's bow still carries the number 23.
Here it is :

I've always wondered why FOTRS had this little inaccuracy. Maybe the AOTD team chose to keep the names and numbers because it looked better on the ship ?
Then again I have seen this mistake on a number of other games (IL-2, for one).

01-02-18, 08:28 AM	#5671
Faith Bosun Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 64 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 6	I'd like to point out that the removal of the kanji was certainly done before the war broke out, but probably not finished on all vessels. Japan was in a great hurry to start the war before all their oil reserves ran out. With the sheer activity of certains vessels (just look at Kido Butai, working non stop without docking til May 1942), it is not improbable that a few ships still had their names painted on the hull by mid 1942. With the destroyer division number on the bow, there is definite proof that some of the older destroyers kept it during the early months of the Pacific campaign. There is picture of a Mutsuki class destroyer, Kikutsuki, beached near Tulagi, taken in '43. The ship was damage and beached during the invasion of Tulagi, on May 3rd 1942. It's bow still carries the number 23. Here it is : I've always wondered why FOTRS had this little inaccuracy. Maybe the AOTD team chose to keep the names and numbers because it looked better on the ship ? Then again I have seen this mistake on a number of other games (IL-2, for one).