Location of Naval Bases & Campaign Question

[sabretwo]

I am currently working on a campaign for GWX based around the Med theater of operations. Scripted activity begins in October
41, the time uboats started arriving in the Med. It's designed in a manner that expects the player to start using SH3 Commander in Salamis/October '41.

I had an idea this morning and I am hoping you experienced guys could tell me if its possible...

I would ideally like the player to begin his career passing the Straits of Gibralter in October and then arriving at Salamis just as the early uboats did when arriving in the Med. Is it possible to place the Naval Base marker for Salamis 150 KM west of the Straits of Gibralter with an end date of say 7 October and then place a new Naval Base marker in Salamis after 7 October? Or do I need to edit the Flotilla file to make this work?

Any advice that saves me time in playing with this idea is greatly appreciated.

[bigboywooly]

Yes is possible to add a marker outside of Gib and have it disappear but you will need to alter Flotilla cfg to add this new marker as a start point
Simple to do
Shout if you get stuck

[Wreford-Brown]

Have you spoken to Hitman yet? He released a Mediterranean campaign that could be of use to you.

[sabretwo]

WB,

No, I haven't yet. It's my intention to check out his work soon.

I am still plugging away on each month. I'm in 1943 now. It's very tendious. Before I start e ach new month, I spend at least a week researching and writing up every naval action I can find reference to. Then I script them.

[sabretwo]

Thanks to BBW's advice, its now working just great. If the user starts the campaign in September or October 1941, they start about 400km west of Gibralter and receive a radio message issuing them their new orders to report to Salamis.

The only downside is that if they arrive in Salamis before November '41, the game will order them to return to their original "port" (Titled in the mod as "Report to Salamis"). I wish I could find a way to override that.

Otherwise its now working perfectly!

[bigboywooly]

Cant recall what date you had Salamis set for but you can try altering its start date to Oct if your Gib base starts Sept
Or the Gib base to run from Oct will give the player 30 days to wait which you can always warn of by a message
Glad its all working ok :up:

[sabretwo]

For what its worth, I got it working. If a player now starts the campaign in October 1941 using SH3 Commander, the player's U-boat is on patrol west of Gibralter. Later that day, a radio message gives a change of orders and issues instructions to report to Salamis.