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This one is a little bit of a stretch, but the tank did enter production, as I have said in my past posts we have a need for each nation to be able to stand alone.
These are most of our Japanese cards we are still in the process of "filling some holes" as we will be adding at least 2 japanese 5/5 inf probably another 4/4, maybe a cav piece and utilizing the floating tank mini produced by A&A by adding some other versions that were used in the war. We will also be making a larger mortar card along with a larger aa gun similar to an "88".
Thanks for the looks and as always any comments are welcomed. |
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 Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:15 pm |
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I don't think you're doing yourself any favors by making these so powerful. You're just going to end up with a Japanese army that behaves like a western army.
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| Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:49 pm |
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Well, I think this is the intention - so far, IJA was not too competitive. I agree that "veteran" and "elite" heavy japanese tanks are nonsense in historical context, but classic AAM is fairly loosely connected to reality anyway 
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| Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:09 pm |
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| Will check the stats after re-reading my multiple books about Japanese tanks. |
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| Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:00 am |
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is that true about the japanese crew participating in the ardennes offensive?
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| Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:36 pm |
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The Shinhoto is not right. Its gun was actually the same as the Type 1 ATG. So the official Type 97 is already the Shinhoto. The older version of Type 97 used the same gun as the Type 89.
Two Ho-Ros landed on the Philippines and fought there in an anti-tank capacity. So your stats won't do. And why are you so sure that it was a sIG 33?
The PZ IV F2/early G costs 22 at present. I don't think one point of rear armour and SA2 worth 9 points. This is what I think of the Chi-To.
I appreciate all your voices for more Asian units, but be mindful of the fact that WWII Asian armies were lowly mechanized. And I don't recall a single tank-to-tank encounter in the 8-year Sino-Japanese War. When we played a Sino-Japanese AAM game last time, there were simply too many tanks. We knew this is for playability, but we did not and do not like it. |
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| Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:50 am |
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Thank You for the comments and I appreciate the need for as much factual history as possible within the game, i also want to get the unit "right". If you wish to see where I was coming from I will try to explain quickly: This is where I get the Ho-ro's as sig 33's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_4_Ho-Ro
I aggree with you on the shinhoto tank, as I went and researched it and found that my partner may have mis read his information. This link explains shinhoto about 3/4 down the page, but when I cross reference the type 97 card from WotC it is dated '42 which is when and the japanese made the shinhoto variant chi-ha yet the text says it is using the 57mm gun. In actuality the custom tank should have a better gun than the type 97, but it should reflect the existing 47mm gunhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ha
I see your point on the early G, it's actually an 8pt diff, but probably too high even if you wanted to restrict it a little bit to reflect Japans lack of resources during the war. A higher cost would lower the probability of more than one of these tanks being used. I have since got a chance to talk to my friend and he said he was basing the type 4 off of the panther ausf d tank of which it also has the same attack dice as the 23 pt G and it costs 35pts. He said he had read where hitler had given the japanese plans for the panther and said build this and the japanese came up with the type 4
I greatly appreciate your comments and hope that i have explained myself somewhat. Regretfully I know that I have entered the game a little late, regarding this forum, but hope that myself and my comrades can bring some valuable ideas and possibly some new custom mini's to this awsome forum in the future.
I don't want to push my luck, but does this mean the other cards were acceptable, lol
I forgot to add this link in my type 4 explanation see the paragraph listed design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_4_Chi-To |
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