Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26091666-20160122024851/@comment-17703786-20160122162510

Sshinka wrote: SonyaUliana wrote: Is there a reason as to why you feel it's wrong to introduce US ships to this game? I mean, why are German and Italian ships fine, but then US ships are not? It's just that as someone who studied Naval Warfare History for many years... I am no less than disguisted by USN/WW2/Pacific. IJN Sailors were shown no quarters. After Naval battles USN Sailors would kill time by using any darker skinned heads they see at the ocean surface for target practice. During the later half of the war in Pacific Theater, despite both techological and numerical advantage, USN was plagued with incompetent commanders and crews. There are exceptions, of course.

What i'm talking about is the daily stuff like USS Iowa equiped with guns and rangefinders that were science fiction for IJN at the time, firing 56 16" shells and 129 5" shells at IJN Katori which was listing to side with reduced speed and maneuverability (as a ship that sucked at both in the 1st place). It took Iowa and the rest of her fleet over 30 minutes to sink one cheapo, barely a warship, ship. That glorious fleet consisted of Iowa (BB), New Jersey (BB), Minneapolis (CA), New Orleans (CA), Burns (DD), Bradford (DD).

Add to stuff like that all the 10 vs 1 air battles and 10 vs 1 land battles. Even the much glorified battle of Iwo Jima was 5 vs 1 with full air supperiority and ridiculous ammounts of naval shelling throughout the battle. How long it took USN to secure that piece of rock? Over a month.

In the end let me just say that i'm not someone who holds sides with Allies or Axis... that would be kinda stupid after all this time, and in short, i don't care about that stuff whatsoever.. but as someone who cares about human life other than my own...

the thing that makes me wanna barf even if i live in other time, and even after all those years have passed by since it happened, is the fact that US prevented JPN from surrendering to them for full 4 months in order to test their A-Bombs on JPN civilians.

So... i'm sorry... i don't wanna play with anthromorphised USN WW2 Ships.

US had totally different qualities at the time - for instance, the ability to produce one hundred and fifty CV/CVL/CVE from the beginning, to the end of WW2. You're acting as though the Japanese themselves didn't have any war crimes of their own that were just as heinous during the war like the Bataan Death March, and most infamously the Rape of Nanking, and you act as though the Japanese didn't also have incompetents in their ranks: see stuff like the Battle of Cape Esperance, or the Battle of Samar where the Japanese were repulsed because thought they were fighting Heavy Cruisers and Fleet Carriers when they were actually fighting Destroyer Escorts and Escort Carriers, and Yamato herself, with the biggest guns in the fleet, couldn't even sink a single ship! (To be fair, that latter battle had incompetence on both sides). I'm also a descendant of people who lived through the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, and heard all about the hardships they suffered in the hands of the Japanese.

And yet here you see me playing a game about anthropomorphized Japanese ships with one of them as my current wikia avatar.

Your reasons are your own yes, but I reserve the right to have the opinion that said reasons seem extremely irrational.