should sh4 been japenese?

LargeSlowTarget · 03-31-07, 12:16 PM

Japanese subs were slow to dive, had rather shallow crush depth and were quite noisy, in general they were technically inferior compared to the subs of other major Navies but of course there were some advanced designs as well (the I-200 class for example achieved underwater speeds of 19 knots). Japanese subs divide into two main categories, the small coastal subs of the RO classes and the big fleet subs of the various I-classes, including the giant I-400 class. More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...avy_submarines.

nimitstexan · 03-31-07, 12:26 PM

Yeah, the Japanese subs accomplished some interesting feats in in the war, especially in 1941-1942, but those missions are the total conducted by the whole Japanese submarine force, an individual sub would have been involved in at most one or two of those kinds of missions. Any sort of even semi-realistic IJN sub campaign would have you spend most of the early war watching empty ocean, with a brief flurry of action hunting high speed warships in the waters of the Solomons, then spending the rest of the war on supply runs to isolated bases, in an ASW environment eventually almost as dangerous as that faced by the Germans in the North Atlantic.

Let's face it, the point of a sub sim is sinking ships, and, apart from the above mentioned engagements, the IJN subs just did not do a whole lot of that.

03-31-07, 12:16 PM	#1
LargeSlowTarget Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 10 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Japanese subs were slow to dive, had rather shallow crush depth and were quite noisy, in general they were technically inferior compared to the subs of other major Navies but of course there were some advanced designs as well (the I-200 class for example achieved underwater speeds of 19 knots). Japanese subs divide into two main categories, the small coastal subs of the RO classes and the big fleet subs of the various I-classes, including the giant I-400 class. More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...avy_submarines.

03-31-07, 12:26 PM	#2
nimitstexan Loader Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 87 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Yeah, the Japanese subs accomplished some interesting feats in in the war, especially in 1941-1942, but those missions are the total conducted by the whole Japanese submarine force, an individual sub would have been involved in at most one or two of those kinds of missions. Any sort of even semi-realistic IJN sub campaign would have you spend most of the early war watching empty ocean, with a brief flurry of action hunting high speed warships in the waters of the Solomons, then spending the rest of the war on supply runs to isolated bases, in an ASW environment eventually almost as dangerous as that faced by the Germans in the North Atlantic. Let's face it, the point of a sub sim is sinking ships, and, apart from the above mentioned engagements, the IJN subs just did not do a whole lot of that.