[WIP] Japanese Campaign

[peabody]

Originally Posted by keltos01

if anyone can tell me how..

glad you like the new model !

keltos

It is the Unitmark in the .cam file, you can delete it, make it smaller or just make it darker by changing the .tga file.

Peabody

[keltos01]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL

keltos

[Radio]

Originally Posted by keltos01

if anyone can tell me how..

glad you like the new model !

keltos

You can simply use this U_mark.dds : http://rapidshare.com/files/312664882/UMark.dds.html I made it myself, but to be honest a 5-year old could have done it as good as I did

[keltos01]

a breather !









We'll see about the mark cause I kindo like it, helps me find my sub ! look above : found her !

and if a 5 year old can do it, well anyone who wants can remove it


keltos

[Shinbou Hakugei]

Greetings!
I read this forum few months, but only today write first time here.

Keltos and Peabody, you make a great work!

I would like to help with japanese campaign, how I can do it? I can't make 3D models, but I can build some missions, can dig SH files in skwas S3Ditor, can be a just tester.

I have some materials about japanese submarines, but I think you have it too, this is not something rare... Also I have some japanese war music (Gunka) in good quality, which I use in grammophone...

P.S. I am not from Japan - cannot help with japanese language and translation.

[keltos01]

[quote=Shinbou Hakugei;1211178]Greetings!
I read this forum few months, but only today write first time here.

Keltos and Peabody, you make a great work!

I would like to help with japanese campaign, how I can do it? I can't make 3D models, but I can build some missions, can dig SH files in skwas S3Ditor, can be a just tester.

I have some materials about japanese submarines, but I think you have it too, this is not something rare... Also I have some japanese war music (Gunka) in good quality, which I use in grammophone...
the music sure interrests me ! even though I usually play without it, it might add to the atmosphere

as for a tester, dl the Jyunsen B mod and the IBDM and report !

thanks

keltos

[peabody]

Originally Posted by Shinbou Hakugei

Greetings!
I read this forum few months, but only today write first time here.

Keltos and Peabody, you make a great work!

I would like to help with japanese campaign, how I can do it? I can't make 3D models, but I can build some missions, can dig SH files in skwas S3Ditor, can be a just tester.

I have some materials about japanese submarines, but I think you have it too, this is not something rare... Also I have some japanese war music (Gunka) in good quality, which I use in grammophone...

P.S. I am not from Japan - cannot help with japanese language and translation.

Welcome, Shinbou Hakugei, thank you for your offer. Think you could learn to speak Japanese in the next couple of days?

Right now the files for the Campaign are not in a testable condition.

I will have to check with Keltos on a couple of things I just did that will need to be tested. But I am not sure if this file will work with the 3.7 boats and the 3.9 are 'broken' while I finish a couple of entries for them.

Peabody

[keltos01]

I liked the view went round from Penang south of Australia on my way to Pearl.

keltos

[keltos01]

I see someone named sesuna posted on the thread in the main page, and here nothing ?

keltos

[keltos01]

stalking a merchant...



look at those guys manning the AA guns ?????

[keltos01]

Banzai ! Banzai ! Banzai !!!


IJN sound mod version 1.4 enabled : the crew shouts "Banzai" as the torpedo hits !

crash dive rings the IJN bell and yells Isingtae or something

how's that for an IJN feeling ?

IJN sound mod v 1.4 d/l link :

http://www.filefront.com/12682913/IJ...sion_1.4e.rar/

keltos

[keltos01]

warships coming my way.. moving to intercept !



I wish I hadn't wated my torpedoes on those merchants now... look at that ! the sea's covered in US ships !



then I fired two at a heavy cruiser, and two at, at ...




a Colorado class battleship !!!




and a fleet carrier !

and all my torps (2 attacks) did was to sink 3 DDs by mistake... :-(

Am I glad I saved the game when I saw the blue lines... and again before the attack...

keltos

[keltos01]

I evaded the DDs, got close and under the battleship, I was at 200 feet under a thermal layer, went back to periscope depth, had only one type 95 torpedo loaded, I aimed at the bow of the colodaro and let fly !

Luckily I hit near the stern !!!



too bad the game doesn't consider "damaged ships"...

those bastards are fast (they start like ferraris ??) 28 knots is a lot..

Boy this IJN campaign is hard... no more sink easy... not more fat and slow and straight going targets...

went back to 200 feet, reloaded, fired two torps from the stern tubes, still aiming at the bow, the ship zigzagged, one type 95 crept close, closer closer ...






BANZAI !! BANZAI !!







and she won't sink, but hey ! that's damaged right ?

keltos

[Arclight]

Damaged? I'd call that disabled.

[keltos01]

By Thomas H. Maugh II December 7, 2009

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The remains of a Japanese mini-submarine that participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have been discovered, researchers are to report today, offering strong evidence that the sub fired its torpedoes at Battleship Row.

That could settle a long-standing argument among historians.

Five mini-subs were to participate in the strike, but four were scuttled, destroyed or run aground without being a factor in the attack. The fate of the fifth has remained a mystery. But a variety of new evidence suggests that the fifth fired its two 800-pound torpedoes, most likely at the battleships West Virginia and Oklahoma, capsizing the latter. A day later, researchers think, the mini-sub's crew scuttled it in nearby West Loch.

The loch was also the site of a 1944 disaster in which six tank landing ships preparing for the secret invasion of Saipan were destroyed in an ammunition explosion that killed 200 sailors and wounded hundreds more.

When the Navy scooped up the remains of the so-called LSTs and dumped them outside the harbor to protect the secrecy of the invasion, it apparently also dumped the mini-sub's remains, which were mingled with the damaged U.S. ships.

"It's not often that a historian gets a chance to rewrite history," said marine historian and former Navy submariner Parks Stephenson, who pieced together the evidence for the television program "Nova." "The capsizing of the Oklahoma is the second most iconic event of the attack. If one submarine could get in in 1941 and hit a battleship, who knows what a midget sub could do today. Iran and North Korea are both building them. It's very worrying."

Stephenson and his colleagues have put together a convincing chain of circumstantial evidence, but it is just circumstantial, said Burl Burlingame, a journalist at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and author of "Advance Force: Pearl Harbor."

"There is a good chance that this is the Pearl Harbor midget, but I don't think the case is closed on it," Burlingame said. "At this point, it is not hard evidence."

The two-man, 80-foot-long sub in question does not have a name of its own. Each of the five subs in the attack was carried by a conventional submarine and took its name from the mother boat. It is thus called the I-16-tou -- tou being Japanese for boat. Powered by a 600-horsepower electric motor, the sub could reach underwater speeds of 19 knots, twice as fast as many of the U.S. subs of the day.

The three pieces of the sub were found during routine test dives between 1994 and 2001 by Terry Kerby, chief pilot of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory's submersibles Pisces IV and Pisces V. But Kerby and others assumed they were a part of a war trophy that had been captured by allied forces at Guadalcanal or elsewhere, towed back to Hawaii and scuttled.

Stephenson got involved in 2007 because he was looking for the fifth Japanese mini-sub.

In 1941, a crewman on the I-16 had received a radio call from the I-16-tou at 10:41 p.m. on Dec. 8 reporting the success of its mission. That indicated to Stephenson that the mini-sub had found a calm place in the harbor and hidden until the next night before surfacing and sending the call.

The crew members would have then scuttled the craft because they could not get it out of the harbor. The West Loch would have been a good location to hide, but researchers could find no trace of the boat there.

A diver who had been looking for the mini-sub suggested that Stephenson talk to Kerby, who sent him pictures of his find.

"As soon as I saw the bow section with the distinctive net cutter, I knew that we had found the fifth midget sub," Stephenson said. The Japanese navy modified net cutters on the subs for specific missions, and the one on the wreck was identical to those on the other mini-subs.

No torpedoes were found on the wreck, and evidence suggests that they were not present when the boat was sunk. A newly declassified photograph taken by a Japanese plane during the attack appeared to show a mini-sub firing a torpedo into Battleship Row. A report to Congress in 1942 by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz describes an unexploded 800-pound torpedo recovered after the battle. That's twice the size carried by the torpedo bombers.

That torpedo was apparently a dud that missed the West Virginia.

But an examination of the remains of the Oklahoma shows that it apparently had underwater damage much larger than that associated with aerial torpedoes. An underwater blast would have caused it to capsize, Stephenson said. "Otherwise it would have settled to the bottom upright," like the other sunken ships.

The 1944 disaster at West Loch occurred on May 21 as the Navy was preparing to invade the Mariana Islands in Operation Forager. The Navy clamped a top-secret classification on the incident to keep it from the Japanese, and few records are now available. What is known is that it was crucial to clear out the debris because the loch was by then the site of an ammunition dump.

Records from the salvage ship Valve showed that it was brought into the loch during the cleanup and its 250-ton crane was used for an undisclosed reason. Stephenson thinks it lifted the I-16-tou, but there are no records to confirm that.

The remains of the mini-sub were then dumped three miles south of Pearl Harbor along with those of the LSTs, to be found by Kerby 50 years later.

Bulkheads on the wreck are sealed, so researchers don't know whether the mini-sub crew was trapped. But a map taken from one of the other mini-subs showed the location of a safe house in Pearl City, Hawaii, suggesting the crew might have scuttled the boat and escaped.

The "Nova" episode describing the search for the I-16-tou will air Jan. 5.

thomas.maugh@latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,6991792.story

according to this new data I think we might have to include a single mission for the Ko-Hyoteki we made to infiltrate Pearl Harbor at the start of the war.

Sidney and other places where those subs were used might also be in order.

keltos