Revamped Japan suggestion 🇯🇵

[GasMasters]

This post is a revamp of sorts for the older version (Major japan suggestion thread 🇯🇵),and it has a bunch more stuff in this version that would solve some more issues and give more uniqe stuff to japan,as this faction has been left desolate and hard to play compared to it’s enemy.keep in mind some of the stuff in here can be event stuff since japan really lacks that.this is going to be quite long,so settle in if you plan on reading.

Vehicles

ground veichles

I-Go Ko,BR1 tank
keeps the tradition of paper armour,this tank would have a 57mm cannon that would preform better than the 37mms found in BR1,this tank was built before standard designs were enforced,so hoppers of up to 60 rounds could be used with this.this tank would give a good infantry support tank at BR1 (better then the 37mm tanks at least)

Chi Ha Kai → BR1
the cannon on here is decent (for taking out tanks of similar BR,infantry support isn’t good),but just about everything else isn’t,slow,worse MGs,paper armour.

Ro-go,BR 1
has 2 turrets and 2 cannons (not amazing guns to be expected),but the larger of the 2 has access to a HEAT round,which could make this unique for a BR1 tank.

chi ha flamethrower,BR1 tank
A version of the Chi-Ha that replaces the hull MG for a flamethrower,something nice to have as a flame tank (and a TT Chi-Ha)

Ka-Chi gets the ability to choose to use the floats or not
the thing is in a sad spot,it is huge,no armour,meh cannon,no MG,no commander’s hatch,and you can’t see past the floats quite often.removing the floats would allow better viewing of targets and better gun depression,as well as the use of the hull Type 97.

Ke-Nu,BR 1 tank
pretty much just a Ha-Go with a better cannon

Ho-Ni III → BR2
think of it as an enclosed marder but with no MG,and you see why it should be BR2.

Ho-Ro,BR2 SPG
A very lightly armoured and exposed gun carrier.

Ryoko type 97,BR2 motorcycle
Something japan lacks,among other things,is a motorcycle,this would solve that.

Chi-Ri II,BR4 tank
A better version of th Chi-To to better preform at BR4,this tank would have a worse armour profile in comparison to comparable tanks such as the panther of 76 sherman,but makes up for it with it’s unique loading system for it’s main gun,which utilizes a tray loading system to make,essentially,a WW2 autoloader.it also has a 37mm cannon in the hull (which at this point won’t be useful against vehicles),which is quite unique.

planes

Ki 32,BR1 bomber
A light bomber with 4x 100kg bombs but bad guns

BF 109 E7
A possible event plane,some were sent to japan from germany for testing,but never really caught on.

Zero lowered to BR1
Very fragile,very very limited 20mm ammo which is the only efficent way of killing since the 7.7mms do nothing,and less payload then some BR1 fighters with the only benefiet being turn speed (which isn’t everything)

Ki-43-II,BR1 fighter
A fighter with two 12.7mms and two 100kg bombs.less powerful guns but slightly bigger bombs then the Zero.

B5N2 → BR2
a plane with no guns at BR3 and not that much of an impressive armament to show for it,this belongs at BR2

D4Y1 → BR2
this thing is a dauntless equivalent with with a smaller bombload that fights AP4s and P47s on the average while only having 2 7.7mms compared the dauntless’ multiple 121.7mms.moving this to BR 2 will allow for an equivalent.

D4Y2,BR2 bomber
the same plane as above,but has a 250kg bomb and 4 rockets,would be interesting to see the US get hit by some rockets.

Ki-44-II hei,BR2 fighter
No 20mms,but 4 12.7mms with a good ammo count and two 100kg bombs

Ki-44-II otsu
This version is different as the one above by having some 40mms cannons like Hurricane MK.IV,but because it has better guns and provisions for either 60kg or 100kg bombs (probably going to be 60) it should be 1 BR higher at 2.this would be a fun event veichle.

D4Y3 Ko,BR3 bomber
similar to the above 2 planes,this version would differ by having 3x 250kg bombs and a 13mm rear gunner (with more limited ammo)

Ki-43-III otsu,BR3 fighter
essentially an army Zero (yay air spawn) that trades the 7.7mms for more 20mms and has better bombs,100kgs instead of 60s.

A6M5,BR3 fighter
a Zero variant with slightly more 20mm ammo (less then the plane above) but keeps the 7.7s.this would have a 250kg bomb in exchange for having to be a carrier spawn.

A6M5 Hei,BR4 fighter
a plane with limited 20mm ammo (as per usual) and a few 13mms,as well as 10 rockets,would be a good AP4 counter.

B7A2,BR 4 Bomber
a D4Y1 on steroids,this would trade the 500kg for an 800kg,and would trade the 7.7s for 20mms (again with all japanese 20mms,low ammo) and a 13mm tail gunner instead of 7.7mm

N1K2 J,BR5 fighter
A pretty nice all rounder plane,it can have 2 Type 5 No.6 Mod.9 rockets and a decent MG loadout

Kyuushuu J7W Shinden,BR5 fighter
a prototype (completed,I might add) super prop plane where the propeller is in the back for some reason,armed with some 30mm (only 60 rounds per gun) cannons and 4 60kg bombs.

Guns

Type 26 revolver
a domestic revolver design from the 1800’s

Mark A pistol
A high capacity pistol.

type B small
A tiny little thing,something stupidly innefective like the TK26

type 80 machine pistol
An automatic version of the 1911 produced in Thailand.

Bamboo spear
this could act as a budget melee weapon (possibly throwable) weapon cheaper then an axe or shin gunto,actually used as weapons during the close of the war.

type 38 with extended magazine
Something like the Gewher 98 with the extended magazine,30 bullets.

Tokyo Arsenal stick mag,BR2 SMG
a version with 30 rounds,the high ROF would still be wasteful and highly uncontrollable,but at least it’s at BR2,where this should go.

(bottom magazine)

Type Ko long,BR3 rifle
the version we have in game is the carbine version,this would be the full sized version of it.

Type Ko sniper,BR3 sniper
a scoped version of the above listed rifle.

Bouganville type 38 GL
Something similar to the RMN 50

type 92 LMG,BR3 LMG
A japanese version of the lewis without the barrel shroud,if the US gets the lewis

experimental 9cm type 4 conversion,BR3 AT
An improved type 4 with 120mms of penetration

KE-7 with 50 rounds,BR 4 LMG
a BR4 LMG is needed for japan,and this would be a good way to give it to them.takes the magazine size of the BR3 version and doubles it,making it good for BR4.

Te-4,BR4 LMG
Aircraft MG modified for infantry use,69 round drum

Type 81 mortar,BR5
A high BR mortar for Japan

Type 97 (aircraft) modified for infantry use,BR5
The type 97 installed on early japanese planes modified for ground use

type 92 97 round drum,BR5
The same gun as listed above but with a 97 round drum.

type 2a 6.5x30mm,BR 5 AR
This could be a proper assulter weapon for BR5 and would allow the devs to finally give japan assault engineers.

type 97 AT rifle with experimental Ji Te Dan,BR 4-5
Around 250mms of penetration,this would be a nice deterrent to high BR enemy armour

Customization

Hachimaki
headbands common through japan for a long while (even today),there are many different types,ones with different words and symbols.these should be available to all except for vehicle crew,only exception being fighter and bomber pilots for uh…reasons .below are some ones that can be added and the translations.

神風-probably one the most famous japanese saying outside of Japanese speaking groups,this phrase means “divine wind”,and is said as,you guessed it,kamikaze

日本-said as “nihon”,this translates to Japan.

一番-this phrase, “Ichiban” translating to number one in english,was another hachimaki seen in ww2

必勝- said as “hisshou”,this phrase roughly means determination to win.

Rising sun pattern-another common version of the Hachimaki,the iconic design worn upon your head.

Gas mask
this could be a cool addition to have.it would look similar to the ones on the guys below.

Also huge thanks to @Life_burns , @Aussie-Tachanka , @Killerwolf1024 , @Naohmcete ,and @Debayan001 for providing a lot of ideas in posts and comments for things to be used this topic.and if you saw the topic got removed for a while,that was because I accidenly

[LokalHero]

Some decent suggestions!

[Kriegerfaust007]

@GasMasters

Kyuushuu J7W Shinden,BR5 fighter

Might get me to grin japans planes

[Debayan001]

Thanks for making this post mate! Hopefully, the devs are keeping tabs. I am really interested to see what is this ‘interesting’ thing which they have planned for Japan. Especially after knowing the fact that the Japanese Tiger was mostly likely a hoax.

[Debayan001]

I found a better picture of the Type 2 SMG chambered in the 6.5×30mm Arisaka cartridge in @Life_burns latest post.

I think @SzepWaxweiler also showed a semi-automatic rifle developed by Nambu. That could also be added here.

[SzepWaxweiler]

There was actually 2 semi-auto rifles that Japan domestically made beside the ones we have one was the Nambu semi-automatic rifle

(First weapon has 10 rounds)
The second one is Kokura arsenal rifle from 1940s which was the time that army reinstated the semi-automatic programm

(5 round)

[SzepWaxweiler]

Also @GasMasters you can add 2 more tank to act as kinda chi_ha and the kai variant replacement one is Ho-I with experimental high velocity 57mm cannon

And second one could be type 98 chi-ho which has same 47 cannon as chi-ha kai

[Life_burns]

well this is recreation if its got to be historically accurate their got to be steel reinforcements:

and this type of recreations are close copy but they forgot the reinforced construction :
Prototype Type 2 Machine Gun | Airsoft Workshop Smith Military Works

Keep in mind the magazine is also not the correct one cuz we don’t know how the magazine looked

[Debayan001]

Nice. It would be cool if they can remodel the wooden texture present on the Type 2a and the Type 2 SMG for this weapon. Perhaps give it that rugged wooden texture as present on the Type 99 Rifle (Late).

[Life_burns]

it will be nice if we find out how the magazine looked

[Debayan001]

Oh yeah. That as well. These recreations seem to be on point though. This magazine has a nice edgy feel about it.

[Life_burns]

yeah but one is modern the other one is Nambu the magazine for the weapon for the book is bigger mag that sadly we don’t have

[Debayan001]

I see. Thanks for the heads up. I can only imagine the power of Japan once we get this weapon. The Type Hei Automatic Rifle can still miss a few shots at range in full auto. But this! With such a stable platform as the Type 2 SMG this weapon could even beat the STG and AS-44. Wonder how the Hyde Carbine will stack up against it if they decide to add it for the US.

[Life_burns]

well i would not call it stable since they reinforced it with steel plates but later decided to go back to Nambu bullets exactly because was unstable. They even called it LMG but didn’t turned well so they left the project however they used some of them in China and few in Okinawa in reality will be worse weapon then the Type Hei rifle however you will be able to see what you are shooting not like with Type Hei

[Debayan001]

I see. Thanks again. What was the issue exactly? Was the cartridge malfunctioning or something?

[Life_burns]

well same problem like AVT-40 it was unstable on full auto the cartridge was too big we don’t have record how it performed but we have few place where was used

[Debayan001]

Damn. That feels bad. But I think it might be a bit manageable with the -40 percent vertical recoil reduction perk. The Hyde Carbine should be a bit more stable firing that .30 cal cartridge. But again I am not really a gun expert.

[Life_burns]

well I also have no idea how it performed in combat but the fact that they used do to shortage of automatic weapons suggest that it was last ditch option

[Debayan001]

Yeah. Seems more like it. But atleast it will be a nice change of pace from the Type Hei Automatic Rifle. That weapon makes using anything else feel redundant at BR V.

[Life_burns]

well yes you will have option that’s why i don’t play much BR V cuz there is very few options to Type Hei all the builds are Type Hei xD