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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Hey John 3rd,

We have been discussing the Surcouf in your esteemed opponents thread.

I was pointing out to him what a versatile combatant it is with twin 8" guns, a 274 cargo capacity and room for a single float plane.

I did some reading up on it and it seems that the French planned to build three of them and scrapped the plans for the latter two when one of the Naval Treaties forbid more than a single super sub.

So, I was thinking that since this mod is based on assumptions that the outcomes of the treaties differed from the historical perhaps you would consider throwing the AFBs another bone by giving us the other two.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Hey John 3rd,

We have been discussing the Surcouf in your esteemed opponents thread.

I was pointing out to him what a versatile combatant it is with twin 8" guns, a 274 cargo capacity and room for a single float plane.

I did some reading up on it and it seems that the French planned to build three of them and scrapped the plans for the latter two when one of the Naval Treaties forbid more than a single super sub.

So, I was thinking that since this mod is based on assumptions that the outcomes of the treaties differed from the historical perhaps you would consider throwing the AFBs another bone by giving us the other two.

Three Allied subs carrying float planes would give the Japanese player a taste of what its like to have every shipping lane under aerial surveilance.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

We have been discussing the Surcouf in your esteemed opponents thread.

I was pointing out to him what a versatile combatant it is with twin 8" guns, a 274 cargo capacity and room for a single float plane.

ORIGINAL: General Patton

ORIGINAL: rjopel

Duplicated base in Scen 50 current file.

Oro Bay at 100, 130 in Papua New Guinea is listed as both ID 987 and 994. The map shows two bases located in the hex.

Here it is John. 2 pages back....GP

ORIGINAL: JuanG

Edit: Disregard, haven't used the editor in a while and misread.

Re-Edit: Princeton II still present as a CV name.
Also, aircraft #695 G5N3 Liz has a weapons mismatch between loadouts - slots 3-5 are 12.7mm Ho-103, while slots 14-15 are 12.7mm Type 1. This is causing display errors on the aircraft data sheet.
Also, aircraft G8N1 Rita present twice, with identical data but different entry dates (1/45 vs 4/45). Suggest swapping the 4/45 to a (fictional) G8N1a or something.

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Does anyone have a creative appropriate name for a Japanese CV? Something unique but works within their naming conventions.

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget


Well, maybe a nice transport or scouting submarine - but combatant? A submarine is too fragile to engage warships in a gun battle - to fight with just two slow-firing 8-inchers against a DD with four to five QF guns or cruisers which host several times the number of guns would be suicide. For hunting merchantmen, 8-inchers surely are overkill, and to ensure hits without wasting too much ammo the sub would have to close into the range of the merchies defensive armament - not too sexy either. For hunting unarmed merchies you do need overgunned monster-subs. In short, Surcouf had no real role to play other than to prove it was technically possible to mount heavy guns and planes on a sub.

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Hey Cavalry.

I am going to fix the name issues first. Does anyone have any good names for US DDs? Was thinking about early war people killed that a DD might be named for. Could use some suggestions...

It doesn't have to be the idea above just need some appropriate names. Could use at least two.