Where are the Japanese Patrol Boats?

runyan99 · 07-12-08, 11:24 PM

Since I started playing SH4 a few months ago, I have been reading several memoirs of the American officers who served in the subs like Calvert, Ruhe, Gallantin, etc.

One thing that is encountered again and again in the memoirs are patrol boats. Smaller than a destroyer, variable in size and type, equipped with depth charges, machineguns, torpedoes or small guns, these craft very often escorted single merchants (especially along coastal hugging routes), supplemented the escorts of larger convoys, and patrolled strategic areas like harbors and straits. Finding a lone merchant or two without at least one of these small craft as an escort seems to have been fairly rare.

These craft are totally missing from the game, both vanilla and the mods I have played so far. Adding them in large numbers would go a long way towards making the campaign more difficult and more historical.

07-12-08, 11:24 PM	#1
runyan99 Mate Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 51 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Where are the Japanese Patrol Boats? Since I started playing SH4 a few months ago, I have been reading several memoirs of the American officers who served in the subs like Calvert, Ruhe, Gallantin, etc. One thing that is encountered again and again in the memoirs are patrol boats. Smaller than a destroyer, variable in size and type, equipped with depth charges, machineguns, torpedoes or small guns, these craft very often escorted single merchants (especially along coastal hugging routes), supplemented the escorts of larger convoys, and patrolled strategic areas like harbors and straits. Finding a lone merchant or two without at least one of these small craft as an escort seems to have been fairly rare. These craft are totally missing from the game, both vanilla and the mods I have played so far. Adding them in large numbers would go a long way towards making the campaign more difficult and more historical.