Japanese infantry guns

[K K Rossokolski]

I think it is an error in the OOB tables, rather than a bug; the error going back to the original Talonsoft game. I seem to remember a discussion on this way back when.
The current Japanese OOB has three infantry guns (June 1944 is taken).
Year 11 Type 37mm....disregard for this discussion.
Type 92 70mm Direct Fire only
Year 41 Type 75mm. Direct Fire only
I used Wiki and "Infantry Weapons of WWII" Ian Hogg The Military Book Club 1997 The sources show inconsistencies.
The Year 41 75mm was a Field arty weapon of 1906, later a Mountain arty and finally an infantry gun. Weighed ~ 1 ton elevation -8 to +16 deg (Wiki gives it much higher elevation) Hogg states held at regt level, used as infantry support normally firing over open sights (ie direct fire), max range ~12000 yds. A chum of mine formally an arty Ltcol believes this true,suggesting the gun configuration would indicate only limited indirect fire capability. So the OOB details are a reasonble if not wholly accurate representation. The gun probably had some indirect capability but was normally used in direct fire. It follows that this would have been of litte value in the jungle.
On the other hand, the Type 92 is wrong. Wiki states "As a result, the Army Technical Bureau developed a design which could be used either at low angle direct fire to take out fortified positions, machine gun nests and light armor, but also could be used at high angle indirect support fire" whereas Hogg, calling this the most common of Japanese infantry support weapons,describes it as a long range mortar in other words a primarily indirect fire weapon (elevation -4 to +75) with a short barrel,range ~3000yds. TO&E two guns per Bn, light at ~470 lb
Hogg states further the 70mm was used by the Chicoms for many years, lots being captured in Manchuria
Hope this helps. I will raise this with JP for a change next time RS is looked at.