{REQ} Daihatsu Landing Craft...anyone make it?
 

Could one of you shipbuilders out there create a Japanese daihatsu landing craft? A japanese barge also.These are vessels that were rather important to Japanese and are omitted from SH 4.

Would be nice to have daihatsus and supply barges to use deck and AA guns on:salute:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihats..._landing_craft

I'm gonna wager a guess here and say that it can't make it from Japan all the way to the beach by itself. :hmmm: Given that, I'd say there would be an escort or two around that would make attacking these suicidal at best.:dead:

Been there, done that, just never released it... yet...
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1598/59674704.jpg

Barge may be possible if you post some pics.

are there any lst or landing craft for the japs besides reused american lst's?


Edit: you know these would make good fishing vessels too.

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very cool miner, hope you will release it soon.Will there be troops on board? Any versions armed with say machine guns? just curious As far as barges go, looking for photos.What program do you use to build ships for SH 4? I may give it a try when i have time.
Oh yea, pretty sure the daihatsu had too shallow of a draft to use torpedos on.The barge i know had too shallow draft for sure, thus why had to close in and use guns on them.

I do know that the Japanese made exstensive use of self propelled unarmed and later armed barges to run supplies among islands, esp in the Solomons.In the Solomons, it became a bit dangerous to run them during the day due to US air presence, they began running them at night, then the PT boats and some submarines caused problems, they armed them and some had escorts to ferry supplies among the solomons.They were also used in the Philippines and i imagine along other costal areas from China to home islands.

I'll search for a photo.The best image i have seen in a sim(and it was a while back) was Combat Flight Simulator 2.There was a barge in there.

ETR, no doubt you would put them in convoys at sea, just create groups of them moving along coastlines or in areas between islands like the Solomons, with escorts sometimes, not always.

I imagine the deck gun and 40 MM bofors would have fun with a daihatsu or a barge loaded with ammo, fuel, troops.


check this out, stumbled across it while searching for photos
http://www.beyondships.com/History-PTBoats.html

Yea thats why I haven't released it yet, having trouble getting the troop nodes in place, for building ships I use S3D, Wings 3D and 3ds max 2009. Cool link by the way.

these would be very nice esp for the Japanese Campaign. Maybe you could just create a single item of massed troops as a placeholder....for appearances. They would not have to be animated to make visusal sense.


http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5...dingcraft2.jpg

but being jap subs we wouldn't sink them now would we ? ;)

keltos

No, no,. heheh, i was thinking of them being used in convoys to be escorted by the subs :)

keltos, would be cool to see them conducting landing operations or moving supplies around while on patrol, come under attack from allied forces.These were small but important craft, always bothered me the devs left them out.

yeah but were there IJN subs around that close to an invasion force?

keltos

Tabular Ship Movements of al lIJN Subs WWII
http://www.combinedfleet.com/sensuikan.htm

more info

http://www.ww2pacific.com/

IJN sub force...

http://books.google.com/books?id=UFJ...age&q=&f=false

Miner1436, any chance you can release this gem?

Awesome, just awesome. Please release it as is! I'll work on getting crew, cargo and troops on it if that'll help.

tater

PS---Maybe another version with a tarp stretched over the top, too. ;)

PPS---did I mention that this boat is a great addition? Seriously, zip this puppy up, even with no crew it is VERY useful.

I have loads of pictures if you need anything else.

http://members.spinn.net/~merrick/Stuff/MLC_A.jpg

http://members.spinn.net/~merrick/St...20type%20A.jpg

man I forgot this.Miner, ever going to release it?