Will naval vehicles be added to the new pacific campaign?

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I believe that in the future the devs will say something about this, but we can’t talk about the pacific without mentioning naval battles, obviously large ships like heavy cruisers, battleships or aircraft carriers will not be added (at least not controllable) but it would be amazing to have speedboats amphibious landing system such as the LCM3 or the Japanese Type 11 PT-15

with the landing boats where the players would enter and the driver would take them to the beach it would be possible to do incredible landing missions, and with the patrol boats there would be incredible naval battles

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or treat the landing crafts as the trucks and jeeps of normandy and the bus of tunisia aka map spawns that any one can use

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Most likely yes. I also believe we are getting additional “rider” style classes like the Tunisia style motorcycles.

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I would hope for small gunboats like the AB-Tei. Something that can pose a threat but that can still be realistically brought down.

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I guess small motorboat like M1 Assault Boat will be added as map-placed vehicle in game.
Type 95 foldable boat (九五式折畳舟) is larger than American one, but it will be counterpart of it. Ordinary it was propelled by Ro (櫓, east-asian traditional propulsion tool), but it can equip outboard motor.

  • Length: 7.35m
  • Width: 1.3m
  • Weight: 200 kg
  • Capacity: 16 troops + 3 engineers

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By the way, PT No.15 was launched in 1975 and retired in 1994 so it seems too modern for WW2 game.

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I would LOVE coastal fleet ships from Warthunder to be ported over and used in some capacity (just for cool factor). Not sure how you would do it in any meaningful way. Unless you add large island hopping maps like battlefield and vastly increase the length and tickets of the game. An enlisted version of the battlefield 5 pacific would be sweet.

I suppose cruisers and destroyers could be set up as indirect fire platforms (like artillery in Hell let loose). but just wishful thinking. I love naval power lol. Really miss the epic vehicles battlefield 1942 had.

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Well, Japanese Armored Boat (AB) was used for river crossing operation too, so it will be useful for such battle. They lay the smoke and suppress enemy coastal positions to support Daihatsu landing crafts.
But, I don’t have idea what type of American boats were suitable. In case of PT-boat, they were used to hunt such landing crafts and landing support crafts, but it seems not to be used for landing support missions and their speed is too high. In case of LSSL, their firepower seems too large: 1x76mm, 4x40mm and multiple 20mm and 12.7mm machine guns.