Imperial Japanese Army warship decals

[aizenns 3,591]

Hello!

In Update 1.89 "Imperial Navy", we get lots of Army's gunboats!

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Army's gunboats that already in game:

"Karo-Tei Type 2", "Seha-Tei Model 1", "Type 5", "AB-Tei Pioneer", "AB-Tei Serial"

So today I suggest decals of vessels for Imperial Army. I believe this will be very curious addition for players!

 

"M"-mark

This mark means Army's owned vessel. There are some variation, but mainly based alphabet "M", and some one have Army's star on center of mark.

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"M"-mark with Army Star

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Bow of HB-K No.2

HB-K (High-speed Boat Ko) was recon boat of IJA to support landing operations.

 

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Bow of HB-K No.5

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Bow of HB-K "Hiryu"

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"M" mark without Army Star

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Bow of Shohatsu class Landing Craft mod.C No.226

In this photo 甲(Kou) seems part of this decal.

 

 

 

"Hinomaru"

Hinomaru (Sun-Mark Flag) was national flag of Empire of Japan. Some army boats using this decal for Enemy ally identification. This decal already exist on National Flags section, but for example USA had its flag as decal in US Army section so I suggest this flag as it.

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Type 3 Transporter Submarine prototype #2 "Maru-Yu No.2001"

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Prototype of I-Go High Speed Boat

 

 

Decals of each boats

List of suggested decals:

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AB-Tei

• さきがけ (for starboard side) / けがきさ (for port side)
• ^甲7 (for starboard side)/ 7^甲 (for port side)

Renraku-Tei

• ロ83
• ロ86
• ヲ27
• 102

Kousoku-Tei Ko

• 飛龍

 

AB-Tei (Soukou-Tei, Armored Boat)

AB-Tei was landing support ship/river gunboat developed by Imperial Japanese Army in 1920s-1930s.

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AB-Tei Prototype No.1 "Sakigake" (In game: AB-Tei Pioneer)

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Sakigake, 1923

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Sakigake, during Chino-Japanese War

resolution of this photo is not good, but you can see there are its name on the bow. (さきがけ)

Port side written from left to right so decal should be : けがきさ

Starboard side written from right to left so decal should be: さきがけ

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AB-Tei Early Production (In game: AB-Tei Serial)

Soukoutei Ko No.7

This ship had its name on bow: 甲(Kou) and 7. (^甲7)

Shape of "7" is different from in-game one so this addition seems useful.

Also If make this decal it should separate 甲 and 7 because in port-side it will write "7^甲".

 

Type 4 Renraku-Tei (Maru-Re)

This is small attack boat that get close to enemy ship and drop depth charges on near of it.

Now this boat is confused to Navy's suicide boat "Shin'you"(震洋), but this boat was developed by IJA and there designs are bit different.

Shin'you is designed for suicide attack that have explosives inside of hull and crew cannot evacuate but Maru-Re able to return to base, and crew had life jacket that designed for Maru-Re crews.

Production models of Maru-Re had 250 kg depth charge dropper on stern, and did not had any machine guns or others.

 

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Maru-Re "Ro-86"(ロ86), captured at Kerama island, Okinawa.

Looking at photo, both side write ロ86.

White lines mean place of cradle when landing on ground.

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Maru-Re "Ro-83"(ロ83), captured at Kerama island, Okinawa.

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Maru-Re "O-27" (ヲ27), captured at Lingayen bay.

 

Photo from: https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/minisub2222/folder/1390264.html?m=lc&p=1

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Maru-Re Ko mod.4 "No.102"

 

HB-K (Highspeed-Boat Ko)

This boat was recon boat for support landing operation that developed by IJA in 1920s that based Thornycroft MTB. In that time this boat was the fastest boat in Japan (over 38 knots) so Army provide blueprint to Navy for develop new torpedo chaser.

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Prototype No.3 "Hiryu" (飛龍, flying dragon)

This boat seems using "Gyoshotai" style wiring style.

https://moji.tekkai.com/zoom/飛/page.html

https://moji.tekkai.com/zoom/龍/page.html

 

 

Sources of Photo

Okumoto Gou (2016) "Boats and Ships of Japanese Army: For Landing, Transporting, Escort, Attack and special ships", Dai-Nippon Kaiga publishers

 Fujita Masao (2008) "Unknown records of 'Army Shipping Units [2]' " Maru, 61(5), Ushio Shibo publisshers

Edited May 31, 2019 by aizenns

[Princess_Pinch 5,625]

Open for discussion. o7

[コタリ 2,732]

+1 with any new nation/tree the decals section is very lacking and this could provide an early boost to the JP Navy section.

[Milocat 4,854]

+1 to all, yes please.