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Just here me out.
I say this for one main reason. It would, given the current game, be able to be done more accurately that any other possibility.
Consider that this game does not allow wolf packs. While many hard working modders have done fine work to improve this generally very good game, they have not been able to add the most important factor for the U-Boat in WWII. Without the packs the mods making things more real actually take things further from both fun and real as they reduce to next to nothing the single ships forcing one to attack convoys, now bigger and better defended but not with a pack of U-boats as it would have been but, you all alone.
Guess what, that is WWI on the nail head.
It started with many single ships and gradually convoys were enacted but there was never a wolf pack. The convoys were always attacked by single boats. Just like you are in this game, all alone.
Plus it would be a fairly simple matter (game dev wise) to add the models, edit the weapons etc, back date the ports and surroundings,.
Imagine the fun of the Dardanelles campaign, the North seas RN cruiser patrols and realistic convoy attacks, as they really occurred, with your lone boat.
90% of the game is done, add models a couple WWI boats and an even more accurate game the SH3 is created.
Since they would have little to do the number of models would be a big highlight. Besides the Revenge (backdated, of course)they could add pre-dreadnoughts, the larger classed ships for more numbers. (Majestic had 9 ships and King Edward VII had 8 ships) for the armored cruisers the Mammoth had 9 ships and the Cressy had 6 (but the oh so I want to CO the U-9 Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue squadron, thing). And so on for CLs, DDs etc etc. you get the point.
For little dev money UBI could use most of SH3 and make a WWI version that would actually be more accurate and realistically played than any naval sim to date. If they did it right,(I won’t hold my breath) there would be nothing for Real U-Boat to do.
You could start the war with a U-9 type (heh heh) and then move up to a U-32 class (The U-35 was the most successful submarine in history, Under four commanders it sank 224 ships of 535,900 tons in 25 patrols. The U-48 was WWII’s best with 51 ships and 310,007 tons) then on to the U99 type which had the familiar 4-1 TT with 12 fish and up to 16 by 1918.
Just a thought!
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Same here. I mean, as I recall, that's where SH started, and I'd really like to see a modern version in the Pacific. So at least we can fight for the winning side. That, to me, is the worst part of SH3, doesn't matter how well you do, you lose in the end. (Though that's good, I don't even want to think about changing THAT history).Originally posted by Desslock:
i find WWI way less interesting.
A pacific scenario (with the possibility to choose between japan or the USA) would be more interesting i guess
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Well, I tooo would welcome a Pacific version and the fact the US did not use packs (There were a very few times we had some boats work together) would make the lone raider more appropriate.
However, the biggest flaw, IMO, for the Pacific is the war starts hard for the Yank Unterboater and gets easier. That is contrary to basic game playing and could only be corrected with maing it less real. I still would welcome the Pacific but believe a WWI U-Boat sim might be the best game play particularly without wolf packs.
How about a WWI SMS Emden sim, LOL. Anyone dare say they are as dashing as the legondary Kapitain zur see Muller? I have also been to Penang like him. He is rembered to have been there, I have not!!! LOL
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That is just cruel!!!! I am reporting this to a modertor, LOLOriginally posted by GT182:
At least with a WWI sub sim there would be the Dreadnaughts of the German fleet on the bottom of Scappa Flo when we get into WWII.
Well that was after WWI but it does bring up the extra eye candy in German ports. I vote for the best looking warship of WWI, Derrflinger, and she could both dish it out and take it. If any ship deserved to be preserved purley on fighting spirit, it was her (and the USS Houston!!)
Imagine Derrflinger as a museum.
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