The National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Military Administration of Ordnance, 4th Technical Research Institute Details on Prototype Ho-Ri (First document) The National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Military Administration of Munitions Mobilization, Production Chart of January to April of 1945(Second document)
According to these at least 5 Ho-ri’s went under production Imma take not so wild guess and say they only made the turrets of most likely Ho-ri 2 and 1(Not sure about one all might be Ho-ri 2 turrets ) simple reasoning being that they were meant to be mounted on CHi-RI chassis but since Chi-ri itself saw no more than 5 build at the time frame I doubt one of the Ho-ris were completely build anyhow it doesn’t change the fact that HO-RI III we are getting is only a paper tank if they had added Ho-ri 2 then the situation would have been ahh no now that I think it would have been no different since people would still complain anyway doesn’t matter its added and Im gonna enjoy using it as I don’t care about HA and my only criteria is it has to be existed and if it didn’t it has to have good reasoning behind it being added and HO-RI has that good reasoning : balance Japanease tanks in BR 5 would have struggled against pershing , superpershing,and jumbo doesn’t matter if we added Chi-To or Chi-ri as long as they didn’t have enough pen they would have struggled and not to mention their paper armor compared to other BR 5 tanks anyhow hope to see Heavy tank number 4
(Heavy tank NO.4s turret used as a stationary gun Manchuria later on Russians blow the gun up)
(H.T.NO.4 in WOT)
And by all means don’t think Im arguing I simply shared my humble opinion anyhow it is what is, cant do anything anymore(Thx Sombralix for these documents)
I’m simply offering a humble suggestion wether is made up or not just for the sake of fun. The Otsu would look nice with the scope on the side and it wouldn’t be giving Japan a over advantage since it’s a 5 bullet gun that’s semi automatic. Now as for the other one I get that I imagine that one and I’m probably making a fool out of myself, I always picture the type 2 SMG with a type 99 MG magazine and I think to myself that would look nice for the sake of aesthetics.
I also suggested for tier 5 both a type 4 garand with grenade launcher and a scope version of said rifle along with other ideas that I posted wether some are real or not. All I did was offer some ideas to improve the faction just so that said faction could have a much bigger variety of weapons.
Yes, in the article documenting the Zebra Task Force, it is stated that the ammunition they used was mostly armored enemy targets destroyed with t33 and m304
As I’ve said the variety can be done without making things up.
Nothing would be more frustrating than a fictional gun made up out of convenience that could’ve easily been something that actually existed even if only as a prototype.
Its already frustrating how many myths and just plain wrong info exist on Japanese guns.
Like I said, prototypes should be fine to be added. I’m not interested in leaving Japan weak because they can’t find a suitable heavy tank that was mass-produced in WW2.
Japan already has a very weak airforce and insanely weak tank force as is. Giving them a B.R 5 then not giving them at least better tanks along side the better planes on offer is stupid.
To top it off: Japan’s AT weapons are insanely weak vs other nations AT weapons. (Panzerfausts)
but does stand a bit on equal terms with Allied AT weapons, With the major issue of allied tanks being way more protected vs the Japanese’s tanks. I highly suggest we get new AT weapons for Japan.
As of the moment the type 5 with 100mm of pen, No sights is the best AT weapon in terms of pin with the type 4 following close behind with 80mm of pen but has sights.
The National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Military Administration of Ordnance, 4th Technical Research Institute Details on Prototype Ho-Ri (First document) The National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Military Administration of Munitions Mobilization, Production Chart of January to April of 1945 (Second document)
5 were produced at least partially but not HO-RI III anyhow even if devs weren’t too lazy and modeled HO-RI II you would still complain about it and funny enough the 5 Chi-ri that we see in the production chart are also built partially and the only Chi-ri that was completed didn’t have cannon so you could say Chi-ri was never completely built like HO-RI and out of those 6 CHI-TOs only 2 were completely build and both were dumped to a lake so Americans cant get their hands on them
Even this would be more acceptable than the one we are getting. As a Japan main I am so dissapointed that we are getting this fake shit just to shoehorn Japan into BR.
If you’ve been in the form for a decent amount of time you’ll see how many times I’ve been asking for Belt fed MG with 100 round for Germans or anything with 100 rounds as an MG
If you decide to go through some of these old links you can decide whichever one of these MG’s you want to be the new belt fed MG with either 100 rounds or 150 rounds or 200 rounds
