OT: The Battle of Savo Island

[Emperor's Child]

Hunpecked said:
So who wants to do a WW II Pacific Theater mod for SE IV?

I'd be interested in the mod, but I don't have time to author it.

That said:
The differences in weapons would be fairly easy to mod: the guns were essentially the same, the Japaneese had the advantage in torp range and speed though both were deadly when they hit.

The American / allied forces had an advantage in damage control: Once Japaneese ships began to take damage they did not recover from it as well as allied ships. This would be especially hard to model. The concept of "progressive damage" from fires or loss of atmosphere are not part of the game, yet this is an area where their opponents had a disctinct advantage.

So I see that we could make the advantages of the Japaneese, but not model the (rather tenuous) advantages of the allies. Nevertheless, the lack of the latter would not unbalance the game much.