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Originally Posted by Stoli151
Using open horizons 2. Today I sank a Finnish merchant, it was in the baltic operations mission. The date was 9/9/1939. It was scored as sinking an enemy vessel. Is this right?  If not why was it scored as a victory. Also, I would like to know if OH2 penalizes you for sinking vessels that are not enemy. |
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Originally Posted by volodya61
It's not a victory  .. this vessel counted as sunk tonnage.. but you will get a penalty of renown points.. |
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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
And Finland never really traded with England, so you sank a future ally for nothing   |
It depends...
from the date he reported, I am sure that Stoli got a renown penalty for sinking the Finnish merchant. Nonetheless, if he did it a week later, he could have done it free of penalty.
This is the reason: when I deviced the core of OH's DefSides.cfg, I added several "free" navies and merchant fleets. Likewise Free France, they got a different diplomatic posture than the one officially assumed by their country. In our case, an allied "FreeFinland" faction is set from 16 Sept 1939 (when the Finnish steam merchant 'Suomen Poika', carrying contraband to Britain, was captured by U-41) to 24 Jun 1940 (when Finland becomes a cobelligerent of Germany):
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After this episode [ Suomen Poika's capture] and before Nazi Germany and Finland became allied, the Finnish merchant fleet suffered 16 losses due to ships seized or sunk by German U-boats
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Within the above timeframe, any ship sailing under the Finnish flag can be either Finnish (thus a neutral ship) or FreeFinnish (thus an enemy smuggling ship).
