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[VALKYRIE43]

Excellent, very good NIMITZ

[geoffwessex]

Hmmm - this may be an appropriate time to mention my own website, British Submarines of World War Two. It also contains quite a lot about the Italian midgets and the British X-Craft and most other things - well, it IS over 100 pages!

[NIMITZ1967]

By the way, your motto , "Unclean" sounds like a good name for a British "U" Class submarine!

[VALKYRIE43]

Hi ,intresting web site geoffwessex,I hope UBISOFT can use the idea of the british subs for SH5 ,the people know better the german U-BOOT due to "DAS BOOT" movie ,is a pity that many british submarines went to scrap instead to become a normal war museum

[NIMITZ1967]

yes Valk......a pity Her Majestys' government does not have the same atitude to preserving their military heritage as the Americans do so wonderfully....youve only got to look at how fresh and "alive" the American civil War and studies around it are....The U.S. Government is proud of its military history and its Soldier presidents Grant, Eisenhower etc.....Rome was proud of its Military History too......................echoes from a past age there.....

[JU88]

(What I have written below is not a spoiler as its already been revealed on Subsim)

I helped make an S-class and T-class (AI Subs) for the forth coming GWX addon, I bet I could rework those models to a similar standard to the player Uboats (they are much lower poly at the moment)

With some major help- I think we could create a Brit campaign mod for SH3 or 4, it would be quite a lot of work though especially for SH3 as someone would have to script a British campaign and i imagine the interiors would still be German/american only the subs exterior resemble the British fleet boats.

Im just a 3d artist, so I cant really deal with the importing and DM side of things (thats where other members of GWX team worked thir magic), the biggest problem I had with creating british sub 3D models was lack of availiable data, I could not find any detailed pics or photos of the conning tower layouts and equipment for either S or T class boats.

I would have loved to have done the U/V classes too but there was no time and other nations subs had to be represented too.

Here are some shots, they look ok, but not good enough to be player boats (missing finer details and suffer from some minor anomalties) Also since making these I have learned a lot more on how the SH3 engine renders objects (how smoothing groups work ect)
and Ive learned some new tricks in 3DS max - if were to do it again, I could do much better.

[Ant__.]

Hmmm - this may be an appropriate time to mention my own website, British Submarines of World War Two. It also contains quite a lot about the Italian midgets and the British X-Craft and most other things - well, it IS over 100 pages!

@ Geoff - you kept this hidden well! It's an excellent site - you should make more noise about it - perhaps link to it under your sig banner?

[NIMITZ1967]

YES truly do recommend Geoff site for those Brit "fans" that cant wait for Ubi to get into gear....its the closest youll get for now...Geoffwessex site can be found on this link, further up.....Thanks again Geoff!!

[NIMITZ1967]

Same here as post on PT BOATS. IF not as full topic game for the brits, a mod?.....and DON'T forget an "X-craft scenario" getting into Altjen Fijord to try a shot at the TIRPITZ......the possibilities for the Brits alone are HUGE...Keep posting now....all replys, good or bad responded to!

[geoffwessex]

Worth bearing in mind that the British boats had crew members from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa while they also 'loaned' boats to the 'Free' navies of Greece, Poland, Norway and Netherlands. So there 'should' be international interest.

Not sure of the exact figure offhand, but around fifteen German and Italian submarines were sunk by British submarines - quite relevant to SH3.

The whole story would include the X-Craft, as mentioned, and the 'Chariots' which were copies of the Italian 'maiali'.