Is there a master roster of ships?

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Ludwig van Hursh

I'm curious if there like a master roster of ships, namely warships, in the game that every ship we sink the campaign is removed from the roster, i.e. if I were to sink a Yamato type battleship and there being two (Yamato and Musachi) would there now only be one Yamato type roaming around?

Or does the game just reduce the number of ship types you can find based on the time in the campaign even if you sunk the ships or not?

I hope this makes sense.

yes, your questions make sense, and the answers are: Yes, No, and No.

yes, there is a master list of "possible" ships.
no, there is not a finite number of ships from which you can decrement by sinking them.
and no on the last condition, sort of.

firstly, ships and the roster of ships depends on the mod-set: Stock vs RSRD vs TMO 2.5 vs TMO_BH vs FOTRSU et.al.

each mod-set has a roster of ships and ship types that are defined and available for certain date ranges. in some mod-sets, a ship type such as the Yamato class, may be available until 9/2/1945. other mod-sets might refine her availability and that of her sister-ship to the actual dates of commission and demise. and so, it depends.

the game itself has no functionality to keep a running tab of remaining available ships. as one of the older WWII sim games put it: no matter what you do within the game, the war starts on December 7, 1941 and ends August 15, 1945. even if you were to find and sink the entire IJF returning from the Pearl Harbor attack, the game would use those same ships according to the definitions in the game.

does this help?