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Old 10-04-09, 07:49 PM   #106
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Brother am I looking forward to this. Guys
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Old 10-05-09, 12:49 AM   #107
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any intel on what the japanese did in WWI ? I know they were on the allies side, but 'that's about it... for now..

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Old 10-05-09, 08:15 AM   #108
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They helped Allies to catch Graf Spee's fleet, but there was no encounter at all.
Also, they sent a destroyer squadron to Mediterranean for convoy duties, one fo them was a total loss after torpedo hit from A-H sub
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Old 10-06-09, 01:37 AM   #109
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I just wanted to commend GerritJ9 publicly for his excellent historical research. He has been behind the scenes providing a lot of information from print sources difficult for US citizens to obtain, so three cheers for him.
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Old 10-06-09, 02:04 AM   #110
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Old 10-06-09, 02:16 PM   #111
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The IJN had a major role in the Pacific in several ways, including the siezure of several German island bases, and above all the siege of Tsingtao, the largest German base in the Pacific, their Pacific Gibralter which they had lavisxhed vast amounts of money and effort. THis was both a naval and a land engagment and lasted a long long time and involved thousands of troops on both sides and ships and many remarkable feats by both sides. Unfortunately the isolation of the base doomed the German efforts hence the dispatch of Graf Spee to try to get home. He almsot made it, if he had only engaged the British ships as they lay at anchor in Stanley Harbour trying to get steam up. The outcome might have been very differnt, tho acts of valour continued after that, it was a doomed result for the two surviving ships.

This would be an ideal battle scenario for the mod.

http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Gre...ing_Tao_00.htm
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Old 10-17-09, 01:49 PM   #112
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Just a little status update - I've been busy with school & work but I am more confident than ever that the contraband system will work. It's impossible to overemphasize how important S3ditor has been - NONE of this would have been possible without it.

I've spent the past weeks doing lots of research on WWI freighters & passenger ships, as well as some research on German uniforms. I have a few new screenshots available but I want to wait until the project's a little more advanced before releasing them.
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Old 10-17-09, 02:35 PM   #113
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No its okay, release them now.
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Old 10-17-09, 02:57 PM   #114
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I am more confident than ever that the contraband system will work.
Good to hear that

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It's impossible to overemphasize how important S3ditor has been - NONE of this would have been possible without it.
None of this? I'd say 99% of what has been made wouldn't have been possible without Skwasjer's genius! He has well deserved the Knight's cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, Diamonds and ice cake!

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I second that, who cares about such details as projects progress?
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Old 10-17-09, 07:28 PM   #115
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More on the Japanese: They had a cruiser escorting the same convoy that HMAS Sydney was with when they got the radio distress call from the station on the Cocos/Keeling Island that they had been attacked by SMS Emden. The Japanese captain wanted to go after Emden, but the Captain of Sydney was in charge and went himself.
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Old 10-17-09, 11:02 PM   #116
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The Emden has a remarkablle cruise, would be wonderful if we could have a campaign around Cape of GOod Hope, Falklands action and then the resulting ship chases and search for the Emden. Emden ended up on the reef and the wreck lasted until some years ago.

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/German...uiserSMSE.html

this render was done from a wonderful 3D model made by Chris Schell recently....that he generously shared gratis for Poser and as an OBJ







and the Koningsberg woudl be a great subject for a campaign too, she was a beautiful ship and a fast one and even sunk a British cruiser the Pegasus before she got bottled up on an Afrikan river.

http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/konigsbe.html
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Old 10-18-09, 04:09 AM   #117
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380 mm gun from the Deutschland battery near Ostend.





A bit unlike WWII bases ! not really made for the Uboots that pier !

the net :



Uboot berthed at the mole - zeebrugge :




Lubeck battery









I wish they still were there on our coast :




Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids - Osprey book.

so there could be many more scenarios than just the North Sea, good !

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Old 10-19-09, 03:15 PM   #118
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the Zeebrugge action would be a great scenerio for the mod ...with the chance of patroling U boots to sink the attacking cruiser force. What an adventure and a Forlorn hope that all was. GREAT pics ..

found more evidence of Japanese fleet units helping in the Pacific, this from a remarkable log kept by an ordinary seaman aboard the HMAS Australia in WWI:


HMAS Australia 1

War and service in New Guinea.
Britain declared war on Germany on Tuesday August 4, 1914, as part of the British Empire, Australia also was at war. Australia with other fleet units sailed north to seek out the German naval ships, but to no avail, she coaled ship at Port Moresby. This operation was always a nightmare for any ship's company, it was a dirty job, covering the sailors in every nook and cranny, plus the ship, in fine coal dust, then when the actual coaling was complete, there remained the need to clean ship both above and below decks.
Now the flagship sailed off to Noumea, another coaling and the escort of two New Zealand troopships to occupy German Samoa.
These days we tend to forget how active Germany was in our Australian sphere of influence prior to WW1, in New Guinea and around many islands in the Pacific.
Australia sailed from Fiji in company with HMAS Melbourne on September 2, 1914, to rendezvous at Rosiland Island with Submarines AE 1, AE2, Encounter, Sydney, Parramatta, Warrego, Swan, plus the trooper Berrima, with members of the volunteer Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force ( ANMEF ) on board, Grantala a hospital ship, and colliers to total 14 ships in the convoy.

Hospital ship Grantala.
Their destination Rabaul to capture the German wireless station. Both Herbertshohe and Rabaul were secured by this force.

Trooper Berrima,carried ANMEF to New Guinea September 1914.
Our Submarine AE 1 disappeared off Rabaul on September 4, and her wreck has still not been found in 2008.

AE 1 lost off New Guinea 1914, and never found.
Prisoners from the fight at Rabaul were taken onboard HMAS Australia, after spending time in the NG area, the ship sailed for Suva arriving on October 12.
The inevitable coal ship found 1,700 tons loaded between 1330 ( 1. 30 PM ) and 0300 ( 3 AM ) the next day, the flagship had an extreme appetite for consuming coal, between October 15, and November 3, James records no less than 7 coal ships, taking into her bunkers 9,624 tons.
Eastwards.
The ship sailed eastwards to Mexico, where she met up with 3 Japanese cruisers and HMS Newcastle, in WW1, Japan was on our side, in contrast with the distant WW2, when that country precipitated war with the United States with her cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942. Off went the Squadron to the Galapagos Islands, but the German Asiatic Fleet no where to be seen.
Close to the Panama Canal, the Japanese cruisers parted company. The canal was closed to ships over 430 feet long and drawing over 24 feet, thus Australia needed to round Cape Horn to reach the South Atlantic. In rough weather and early into the New Year of 1915, Australia arrived in the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley.
Britain colonises Falklands.
Not withstanding any claims by Argentina, Britain went ahead in 1842, declaring a Colonial Administration over the Falklands, which at that stage had strategic usefulness because of their proximity to Magellan Straits with its passage from the South Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean via Cape Horn. In 1845 the town of Stanley was established, and Britain has remained ever since.

The strategic position of the Falkland Islands
German Supply ship.
January 6 found SS Elenore Woiermann, a German Supply ship in sight, her 99 crew were taken on board Australia, and the enemy ship sunk by gunfire.

[more info for pacific campaigns in WWI]

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/Extrac...sDixonsDi.html
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Old 10-22-09, 08:58 PM   #119
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I am going to put an announcement of your mod on the filefront site. Even though i really don't care to play german, I'll defently give this one a try. Though I am surprised a ww1 TC gets annoucned before an atlantic side supermod for the germans we already have from the uboat add-on. Didn't see that comming.
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Old 10-23-09, 10:16 AM   #120
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i'm glad someone is finally doing this, and that it is finally being done well.

are you pretty set on releasing this for sh4? do you think you may move to sh5 as it nears release or create a version for sh3?
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