Japanese infantry guns

[Hawk Kriegsman]

Hello All,

It is right in the unit description for the 70mm infantry gun. If you click on the unit and then hit the F2 key the unit description comes up. The last line of the 70mm description is: "Though capable of being used for indirect fire, Japanese doctrine limited the daitaiho to a direct fire role."

And the 75mm infantry gun description has at the end: ".....in 1936 it was turned over to the infantry who authorized four in each infantry regiment as a direct fire support weapon."

So there is no glitch or error in the OOB tables. It was a deliberate decision to limit these weapons to the way that the Japanese historically used them.

After doing a little looking around it seems that the type 92 was used primarily as a direct fire weapon at relatively close ranges.

I would say keep the gun as is. Making it an indirect fire wepon would actually reduce its effectiveness and value (remember indirect capable weapons cannot fire with low ammo, while direct fire only wweapons can).

Of course if you want to add a indirect capable one to the Chicoms OOB by all means do.

Thanx!

Hawk