Tonnage Question

[Easty]

Hi Guys

just in regards shiping in WW2 and with relation to SH3 and to GWX I think the overall size of the ships in the game need to be looked at I think the average size for a ship in WW2 was about 5000-6000 tons but everytime I go on patrol all I usually see is a wall of 10000+ size ships I don't think there is enough smaller ships
around like for instance I just sank 7 ships for 72259 grt all in convoy!!! now thats great to get so much tonnage but its a bit unrealistic no uboat commander sank that much in convoy attacks on a patreol during the way the only one that got close was Kretschmer in his last patrol and I have done it twice now the other being 6 ships for 74843 tons there just seems to me to be too many big ships in the convoys. I think personally smaller ships should make up about 75% and the rest big ships but at the moment it seems to be the other way around.

I'm playing with the GWX mod at 82%.

What are your thoughts on the matter.

Cheers
Easty

[GoldenRivet]

just as an experiment... try it with no weapons officer assistance and see if your tonnage influx changes per mission. :hmm:

on 100% realism... if i encounter a convoy of large tankers i would have to shadow them for a week to rack up 72K tons. plotting your own solutions is a bit more difficult than the weapons officer finishing his magical 100% accurate solution in 2 seconds. and it takes a few minutes when you plot your own plus you have your margin of error built in.

On a good night im lucky if i take down 3 ships before i have to start thinking about evading escorts.

just out of curiosity... what was the information source for the tonnoge of the average merchant ship? i would like to research that

[JScones]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

just out of curiosity... what was the information source for the tonnoge of the average merchant ship? i would like to research that

Observer did some extensive work awhile ago - his analysis fed into SH3Cmdr's random tonnage feature.

The problem is that SH3's ship inventory is "top heavy" (or perhaps more accurately, such ships appear too frequently). Those jack of 100K ton patrols on 100% realism have commented for a long time that SH3 needs smaller ships. Hopefully GWX 1.04 will go a way to addressing this imbalance by adding more smaller ships.