Where are the Japanese Patrol Boats?

runyan99 · 07-13-08, 12:16 AM

Checking the hardcopy recognition poster, I do see Hira and Atami gunboats and a medium subchaser. Okay, so they are in the DB.

I've never seen one in a campaign, as far as I can recall. They seem to be rare as hen's teeth. They are vastly underrepresented in the campaign, in my opinion. There should be as many or more of these small craft than there are destroyers in the campaign, and they should be encountered most of the time that a maru is spotted, at least say from 1943 on. From historical memoirs, these craft were encountered with great frequency.

It shouldn't be "I've seen them", it should be "I see 5 or 6 on every patrol."

07-13-08, 12:16 AM	#3
runyan99 Mate Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 51 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Checking the hardcopy recognition poster, I do see Hira and Atami gunboats and a medium subchaser. Okay, so they are in the DB. I've never seen one in a campaign, as far as I can recall. They seem to be rare as hen's teeth. They are vastly underrepresented in the campaign, in my opinion. There should be as many or more of these small craft than there are destroyers in the campaign, and they should be encountered most of the time that a maru is spotted, at least say from 1943 on. From historical memoirs, these craft were encountered with great frequency. It shouldn't be "I've seen them", it should be "I see 5 or 6 on every patrol."