No i am not suggesting add too op things battleship or even gunboats
But torpedo boats/pt boats/e boats / ms boats/patrol boats will create more dynamic and sophisticated warfare
They wont be so op like tiger / is 2 on water, they dont have heavy bombs for land targetslike ju 188 or high calibre guns like heavy tanks. Pretty vulnerable against any mg, bomb, gun etc… their dock are made of thin metal or wood generally, any fighter plane with mg can inflict heavy damage.crew also very exposed and killing them with basic rifles is easy.
We already have amph tank ( more armor more fire power) and they dont break the game’s balance
They are multipurpose vehicles. Highly modifiable
Machine guns, at guns and mgs can be impelmented on it against land and air tragets
They are also useable on big rivers
But how to use them for their main purpose : to torpedo ships ?
- Make aircraft carriers/or other possible big ships like maybe frigates sunkable
- Losing aricraft should cause enemy teams losing their aircraft launching ability, and losing reload repair points for planes already on air
- give very big xps for sinking a ship so tryhards will try to go after ships more than camping against infantry
By making ships sunkable and costly, aircraft also have to focus on enemy pt boats. They dont stuck to “go to point bomb then return reload bomb again” cycle
Pt boats also have to be careful against enemy aircraft and enemy boats, land fire. They are vulnerable to mg, at, any little bomb etc… so They cant just lock to land targets and nuke the point always
Pt boats cant approach close ships so they have to first clean guns on it (with their at guns) or torpedo from distance
If enemy wants to attack to aircraftcarreir from sky, their pt boats MUST HAVE destroyed aa guns on it first. This is possible with implemented a.t. guns to them
Possible vehicles to add
Japanese: t14 , type 38 , t 25 , type 5 , t 11, t 51
German e boats: s- 38 , s-100, s-216, vs-100, pr 206
Soviet: g-5 , d-3 , sh-4 , a-1 and a-2 (lend lease)
İtaly: MAS 568, 561, 532, 554
Romanian pt boats were also highly effective in odessa and crimea campaigns: NMS viforul, NMS vedenia
*i didnt add very big ones like Spica class motorboats. since they will be hard to use and too many crew
- brits and americans have tons of pt boat/mtb types so i didnt listed them
Good maps to use pt boats:
Some history nerds will say “but pt boats never used in those battles” well yes but theoretically they could have
Most of the pacific
Maps like gavutu, soutwest pacific islands (operation catwheel)
Little atolls and rock island in marshalls and gilberts
Small island areas in phillipines
leningrad siege: germans used italian pt boats in lake ladoga and finland bay
Hiumaa, Saarema and nearby islands estonia: Two amphibious operations conducted in war: Operation beowulf (1941), operation moonsund (1944)
Narva isthmus: battle of narva (1944)
On Big wide rivers
Battle of budapest (1944-45)
Battle of vienna (1945)
Belgrade offensive (1944)
Soviet armoed boat on the danube circa 1944
Various battles on poland (1945) vistula and oder
Battles on rhine(1945) like remagen
stalingrad on volga
dnieper battles like korsun cherkassy
battle of rostov 1942
Battle of the Scheldt (1944) Zeeland holland
Operation slapstick (1943) taranto port
tobruk siege 1942:
Operation baytown (1943) reggio calabri
Big france river liberation of france 1944
Po river 1945 ally spring offensive
This also open new possibilities like this