Question On Promotions/Medals

[SilverGhost]

I'm on my fourth patrol of GWX in late January, 1941. At the close of my third patrol I was awarded the UBoat Badge and Front Clasp and promoted to Oberleutant. The third patrol netted me about 14,000 tons, about 2150 on the second, and about another 16000 on the first. Nothing spectacular.

In TGW mod, I was out on a long, long patrol and got back to find the KC, KCw/silver and then KCw/gold,swords and diamonds!

In real life the KCwGS&D was a rarity. I think there were 2 Uboat skippers and 1 Lufwaffe officer ever awarded this one. How or why does the game rationalize these upper awards?

[melnibonian]

SH bases the promotions and the medals on the renown and not on the tonnage. Due to this it is quite common to get loads of medals. It's a limitation of SH3 I'm affraid. Also I think that the only Golden Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds holder was Hans Ulrich Rudel of the Luftwaffe. A Stuka dive bomber pilot, Rudel destroyed 518 Russian tanks (that's five Russian tank corps), 150 flak and artillery positions, 700 trucks, sunk the Russian battleship Marat, a Russian cruiser, a Russian Destroyer, 70 Russian landing craft, and hundreds of other targets (bridges, railways, bunkers). He also heavily damaged another Russian battleship, the October Revolution. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions, of which 400 were in a Focke-Wulf 190, claimed 11 air victories and was shot down 32 times.