I had always intended getting a third or fourth modern fleet (megalomania? Of Course!). To join the Chinese and Indian fleets I purchased a Japanese modern fleet pack from Navwar code FPMD 5. Even after the arcane ordering process (I sent another letter through the mail to England) the postman brought me a parcel two weeks later. Included in the parcel was a 15mm DBA Mongolian Army for the lady – figures from Naismith Design and a modern Japanese fleet.
I had learned from previous orders to just stick with the fleet pack to start with as that was surely going to provide enough vessels for future gaming. This fleet pack contained:
| Pack Number | Vessel Class | Ships in Thomo’s Navy | Sister Ships |
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Submarines |
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| N505 | Harushio | Harushio Natsushio Hayashio |
Arashio Wakashio Fuyushio Asashio |
| N506 | Yushio | Yushio Setoshio Mochishio |
Okishio Nadashio Akishio Hamashio Takeshio Yukishio Sachishio |
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Destroyers (Guided Missile, Aegis and Helicopter) |
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| N544 | Murasame | Murasame Harusame |
Yuudachi Kirisame Inazuma Samidare Ikazuchi Akebone Ariake |
| N545 | Kongo | Kongo Kirishima |
Myoko Chakai |
| N546 | Asagiri | Asagiri Yamagiri |
Amagiri Yuugiri Hamagiri Steogiri Sawagiri Umigiri |
| N547 | Hatazake | Hatakaze Shimakaze |
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| N551 | Haruna | Haruna | |
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Destroyer Escort |
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| N566a | Ishikari | Ishikari | |
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Frigates |
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| N563 | Abukuma | Abukuma Jintsu |
Oyodo Sendai Chikuma Tone |
| N566 | Yubari | Yubari Yubestsu |
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Amphibious Transport Dock/Landing Ship Tank (LPB/LST) |
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| N590 | Oosumi | Oosumi | |
This fleet pack, apart from providing some interesting opponents for the Chinese and the Indians, will also give me the chance to try a new (well new for me) basing technique to see if I can move away from the two-dimensional painted sea bases that I have done in the past.
Thomo's Hole 
Nice, I can’t recommend highly enough the acrylic artists gel..
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Also going to add some air to the above, of course. Looking to get some:
F-4 Phantoms (armed with ASM-1 and ASM-2)
Mitsubishi F-2 (F-16 under license) also armed woith ASM-1 and ASM-2
SH-60 Sea Hawk – ASW role
CH-53E Super Stallion … just because I saw a picture of one of these lifting a Chinook
P-3C Orion for maritime patrol
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