Cheers, Peabody.
5. Shore bombardment did happen in the US so we may include one for historical reasons. But there really isn't much to shoot at with a sub.
Sydney harbour was attacked by midget subs trying to get the USS Chicago (they sunk a floating dormitory instead ) while the mother ship waited offshore lobbing shells into suburbia.
Please don't forget the little people in Australia! We got hit too!
The port of Darwin in northern Australia was hammered from the air in Feb 1942, as was the seaplane base in Broome, on the NW coast. Including these ports / bases in the map (Broome and Darwin dont exist in SH1.4 vanilla) in the Japanese campaign would make all the Oz skippers very happy indeed.
As for minisubs, I thought just carrying them to the drop off point in the mother sub would be the mission-not a very high survival rate for mini subs, unless you consider the immortality achieved by being on permanant display in some foreign war memorial!! Bloddy things might as well be a Kaiten! Wave goodbye to the uppity XO, seal him into his first and last command of his own and get back to your own career by teasing the local DDs into hunting you with a few shells into defenceless suburbia. Now
that's a mission!
