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Originally Posted by JapLance
Sorry, but there was nothing even close to that. All the Japanese DDs got to increase their AA in the late war were extra triple and single 25mm guns. In fact, some of them LOST main gun turrets to increase the number of light guns.
I know this well as I did a lot of research when converted some WoWs Japanese ship models to SH4.
That Menaki is a completely made up ship.
OK, I think I've found the origin of such monstrosity: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=122215 |
I'm not saying the Menaki is "historical" by any stretch of the imagination. It is not that ship in the post you pointed to, unless MadMax borrowed it from that source and then removed the extra depth charges. Like several other ships in MadMax's shipyard at the time of the AOTD web site and group's demise, there were unfinished ships. This is one of them. I am certain they planned to do more work on it. We avoided "calling" it in game for these specific reasons. It would have been forgotten if not for DanielCoffey and doing the RecMan... lol
btw, this is the state of documentation on a lot of the IJN DD & DE:
22 December 1943-18 January 1944:
Docked at Maizuru. (“X” turret probably removed/replaced by two triple 25mm mounts during this refit.)
You have to really hunt through each ship at combinedfleet.com for the info, which I assume is due to a lack of post-war records. Very few photos, and little documentation. I have no clue as to where WoW got their research from...
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Originally Posted by Moonlight
Well, well, well, we've got this far into the war without any serious IJN destroyer escort problems, we've had to limp back to port twice though, it was more my fault for taking my eye off the ball than anything the IJN did.
Warship sinkings so far are, 4 Carriers, 3 Battleships, 1 Heavy Cruiser, 7 Light Cruisers and 14 Destroyer Escorts.
My pride and joy of this campaign is 3, yes, yes, yes,  3 sightings of The Flying Dutchman.  
All in all the Midway Gar career has not turned out too bad, the torpedo crew have all been promoted to at least Petty Officer 2nd class and torpedo loading seems to have improved slightly, although that is probably my imagination thinking that, does anyone know if this promotion thingie is true or not?.
Update:Submarine Improvement highlighted in Magenta.
6th July 1944 USS Grayling (SS 209) GAR.
Equipment Loadout,
Mk14 Torpedoes,
Twin 40mm Bofors AA Gun
5" .25cal Bow Deck Gun
SJ-I, Improved Surface Search Radar
Improved SD Radar, Air Search Radar
Half Cut Conning Tower |
Thanks for the update. But you haven't received a "full-cut" conning tower, much less the "Elite" model yet?... the full-cut aka: LateWar, is available beginning 1st January, 1943, while the "Elite" becomes available 1st January, 1944... As before, the boat upgrade takes precedence, and will always be offered in lieu of a conning tower, which is only available when there are no boat upgrades available. There are too many boats available in FotRSU... lol - man, how I wish the conning towers were like SH3, where you could "purchase" them, like an AA gun...
