mod idea??

[Mooncatt]

dont think this has been raised before and not sure if it would be possible...
i was on patrol last night and the weather was awful from the north of scotland all the way down to spain.
i was wondering if it was possible to make like a map overlay on the nav map which gives predicted weather patterns from BDU updates??? did uboats have this luxury?? or would this be un realistic and not possible to do anyway with the weather effects being hard coded into the game also with weather being set as "random" in the cfg file.

[Kpt. Kozloff]

Good point. Weather forecasts would be very helpful indeed.:up:

[Sailor Steve]

I don't think it can be done in the game, but in fact World War Two was the exact time that people were putting weather prediction into practice. Everybody, Allies, Axis, everybody was having ships and planes tell what the weather was where they were and trying to predict which way it was going. It was a long way from perfect, but they were doing it.

[bigboywooly]

Not sure the idea is workable

Uboats did indeed have weather info
Uboats on patrol would radio in the weather
The Germans even planted a group of men on Greenland for weather reports

Captured by the USCG months before the US entered the war :o

http://www.uscg.mil/history/Northland.html

[Sailor Steve]

I just remembered I read somewhere (always a valid reference:rotfl: ) that sometimes u-boats who ran out of torpedoes early were ordered to stay on station and report ships and weather for other boats until fuel required a return to port.

It wasn't in the last two books I read, so I could just be misremembering. Or hallucinating.

[bigboywooly]

No you are correct as ever Steve
I have seen it in the BDU KTB

[ReallyDedPoet]

I just remembered I read somewhere (always a valid reference:rotfl: ) that sometimes u-boats who ran out of torpedoes early were ordered to stay on station and report ships and weather for other boats until fuel required a return to port.


Interesting stuff regarding the weather. It was hell for all sides wasn't it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes, there were German weather ships in the North Atlantic. I believe an engima machine was gotten from one of ths weather ships.

[Kpt. Kozloff]

Yes, there were German weather ships in the North Atlantic. I believe an engima machine was gotten from one of ths weather ships.

Yeah, Munchen and Lauenburg were amongst them.
http://www.avoca.ndirect.co.uk/enigma/enigma11.htm

[Mush Martin]

I think that weather only exists in the sim within a reasonable distance of
the sub. its seems more controlled by time than geography?