Your favorite GWX-compatible add-on mods?
 

Been a while...

What's everyone's favorite GWX-compatible add-on mods? It's been years since I've played.

I'm sure I'll get some snarky "check this thread and read through 30 pages of bleh bleh bleh" but I'd like someone's personal opinion on what's their essential can't miss mods for a pseudo newbie. Well, at least a "i haven't played in the last 5 years" newbie.

Since I use more than thirty mods on top of GWX, I'll stick to what I consider the single most important tool of them all, and that's SH3 Commander.

Yup, I'm definitely using it. Along with my "Real Kaleun Portrait Pack" lol

Also, mind sending me a screenshot of your JSGME setup so I can look into those mods?

I don't have anything set up since I got a new computer recently. I do keep a list of what I was using with my last setup:

GWX 3.0
Hardcode Fixes - h.sie
GWX 3 Wil, St Naz and Schluese and other units v7 - Bigboywooly
Remove GWX Compass - ichso
Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod - FLB-Sale_U-999
Anschütz Kompass - Leitender
New Interiors 2.1D - FlakMonkey (replaces Diving Duck's Open Hatch mod)
Open Hatch Conning Deck Cam Fix - Diving Duck
TMTv2+ThomsensShips v4.4 for GWX3+Xtra Ships
Assisted Plotting Mod - Observer
Waterstream+Exhaust Kombimod v2.3 - Rubini/Racerboy/h.sie
Lifeboats & Debris v4 - Rubini/Privateer
SH4 Maptools for SH3 - Latemail
GWX DFa Flags and Pennants 2010 - Anvart
FM30_UpDown - Anvart
FM NI Fix for FM30 UpDown - FlakMonkey
h.sie's Colored Hull Integrity Indicator
New Lorient - Alfred Keitzer
Sound My Way - From several sound mods
Das Boot Sound Mod SH3 - Sailor Steve, based on 'Projeckt Schwertfisch', by the SH2 modders
DBSM SH3 Speech Fix - Sailor Steve
Ultimate Aircraft Sounds - AOTD_MadMax
Spirit of Machines - Einbecker
Torpedo Fire (German) v1.02 - Ktl_KUrtz
Das Boot Officers - AILantic
Small Moon - AILantic
No Rank on Crew - Dertien
Das Boot Clothes - lafeeverted
Clean Nav Map - Don't remember
English-To-German Names - Phoenix3000
Historically Accurate U-Boat Emblems - Conus
Halo Not Visible Through Body - Anvart
Port People - Pascal
Realistic Blueprint Damage Screens - Pascal
Remove Station Labels
SH3 Color Icons - Capt. Teach
Modified Searchlight Beams - OneLifeCrisis
U-Boat Bases Map with New St. Nazaire - meduza
Head 04 Fix - Anvart
SH3 Officer Faces
Aces' Modified Headphones
Aces' Crew On Deck Stand Alone GWX
Clearsky Clouds - Rubini
A-I Class Destroyers - The Frog
J-Z Class Destroyers - The Frog
SH4 Effects for SH3 - Racerboy/TheDarkWraith
Torpedo Damage Final - Ocean Blue
Tuddley's Barracks Screen
Rick's Alternate Rec Manual - Rik007
GWX Turm Lights Fix - Privateer/Jimbuna
KB's Diesel Sound Mod - kristenburnout
No Continuous 'Ship Spotted'
Torpedoraum Typ II - MCHALO12
New Freecam Mod - Asanovic7
Seabed Repair Mod - Mikhayl
Searchlights Removed - schlechter pfennig
SH4 Maptools for SH3 - Latemail
Merchant Fleet Mod - Iambecomelife

I have a special set that I use when I play early in the war:

Type VIIa Features - Wreford-Brown
VIIB Early War Skin - Sledgehammer427
Type IIb AI Camo - Sean (changed to IIA)

You’re awesome, Steve. I don’t care what Neal says about you. :D

When playing GWX3 (amongst other mods), I have actually little additional stuff loaded:


- Conus Widescreen Mod
- SH3 Commander + special GWX files for it
- Enhanced Damage Effects
- Music in game (music for intro screens and menus)


The mod is clearly focused on campaign with a behemoth of 500+ pages manual. For me it makes no sense to load additional mods that may hamper the gameplay and screw the mod in some way. I have never completed a full campaign with this mod, so I cannot judge how good it is overall, and this would be a pre-requisite for me to say "The mod needs more stuff loaded".

First you play the stock game, then the mods. You don't mix a mod soup right at the beginning before knowing the game well - unless you must correct bugs. And I've seen no bugs in GWX3, it's very stable, maybe the most stable mod for SH3.