[WIP] Wolves of the Kaiser:1914-1918 Mod

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/atta...1&d=1430248255
IABL the map of the Baltic Sea ( from august 8th 1914 tom march 3rd 1918) is ready.
legend:
1) ports with flag: most important harbours;
2) stressed ports: minor harbours;
3) "N-ports": neutral harbours;
4) iron crosses: u-boats attack zones.
imprtant battles:
Battle of Gotland ( july 2nd 1915) anglo-russian victory;
Battle of Riga's Gulf (from 8th to 19th august 1915) anglo-russian victory;
Battle of Sound Moon ( from october 16th to november 3rd 1917) german victory.

Excellent. That is EXACTLY the kind of research I need. Now I will be able to place civilian zones and military targets accurately. I assume the front lines would have been in the South, between Riga and Kaliningrad? Because SH4 supports destructible shore targets, I want to add some troop concentrations in the right area for submarines and monitors to attack.

BTW, Lusitania has been successfully imported into the SH4 engine-I will post more screens later.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Yes and Riga was captured by german forces on september 3rd 1917.
I'm making a map of the black sea and adriatic sea; waiting a few more days and all maps will be ready.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

the black sea map, from July 24th 1915 to may 7th 1918, is ready.
legend:
red line: front line in 1914; Trazbon was captured by russian forces on april 1916, but recaptured by ottoman forces on february 11th 1918.
mayor russian harbours: Sevastople, Yalta and Novorossik.
iron crosses: Costantinople Flottolla's u-boats attack zones.
red squares: bulgarian submarine attack zones.
Romania is entered in war on august 17th 1916 and invaded by Central Powers' forces on may 1918.
the romanian navy was formed only with costal gun-boats and armed drifters.
the bulgarian submarine "Podvodnik No 18" (ex UB-8)entered in service with the bulgarian navy on may 25th 1916; it sank only two ships in its carrier.
it was armed wth an austro-hungarian 37mm rapid fire deck gun.
bulgarian flag:

skinn of the submarine:

[iambecomelife]

Oliver, thanks for the maps. The sub pictures are most informative. Also, I like the picture of the hospital ship "Llandovery Castle" - we will need lots of medium passenger ships like that one. They make good representations of hospital ships, troopships, or armed merchant cruisers.

Longknife, check your PM please.

[iambecomelife]

RMS LUSITANIA 100th Anniversary Model Update:

Imported into SH4...the aft docking bridge has been added. Passengers are wandering about the stern...I have some ideas for abandoning ship that I hope to put in place...

Added luggage cranes and the small crane at the bow. Changed the color of the railings on the forward well deck...according to Ken Marschall's research, they were painted gold on her last voyage.













100 years ago today, U-20 had just sunk the "Earl of Lathom". Walther Schweiger was wondering if he'd find any bigger game...meanwhile, "Lusitania" approached the warzone around the British Isles, with nearly 2,000 passengers and crew aboard...

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Wow, this is a wonderfull and historical accurated model
Do you want to add the Olympic and the Britannic?

[Chrisi078]

Lusitania had only 3 smoking chimneys

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

No, that was the Olympic class (Titanic, Olympic and Britannic)

[Longknife]

Fine looking model!

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Chrisi078

Lusitania had only 3 smoking chimneys

Before "Lusitania" was lost, Cunard shut down some boilers to save coal for the war effort, so that might actually be true (for 1914 - 1915). This had the added effect of cutting "Lusitania's" top speed to 21 kts. Still faster than a U-Boat, but of course it made it easier for a sub to get a correct firing solution.

I haven't discovered any research telling me which funnels, if any, stopped venting due to the boiler shutdown. I will look into it.

The smoke by the way is customized, and highly visible - you will be able to see merchant ships from a great distance, before you even see any other details. I'm still tweaking it.

As for the "Olympic", "Titanic", & "Britannic", I checked one of the biggest Titanic research forums ... they said that a tiny bit of smoke actually did vent from the dummy funnel - I think that the kitchen exhaust on that class of ship was drafted out of Funnel #4. It's actually easy to add different funnel smoke to the same ship, thanks to S3ditor. Something for me to keep in mind on future projects....

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

For the Black and Baltic seas campaigns I prepared a list of the mayor ships of the Russian Empire.
Baltic Fleet:
Dreadnought

Gangut class
pre-dreadnought:


Borodino class
cruisers:


Bayan class CA


Novik class CL
Destroyers and torpedo boats:

Novik class DD

Lovkiy class TB
Black sea Fleet:
battleship:


Imperatritsa Mariya class (entered in war in late 1916), 3 units the Imperatritsa mariya sank by sabotation on october 20th 1916.
cruisers

Pallada class CA

Boyarin class CL
destroyers and tb:

Lovkiy class TB

Finn class DD

[iambecomelife]

Thanks! But could you please do something about the "Borodino" picture - it's way too big. Can you try to keep sizes at maybe 1280 x 1024 max? Thank you.

[leadtail]

I really like the smoke, much better than stock for WWI ships! And man I can not wait to sink that ship either!

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

IABL I changed the picture, but the big image was the Bayan class CL; I hope that I changed the right image.
So would you want some airecraft of the bulgarian navy, ottoman navy and russian navy?
And will you add a "surface campaign" with the german ships ?

[11sero10]

Very Good models of ships