swuboo
12-22-07, 12:48 AM
Is it possible to make a ship that the WO will misidentify?
There are two reasons I'm curious. One is trawlers. I was wondering about the possibility of adding unarmed trawlers to the game, precisely the same in all dimensions as armed trawlers. Ideally, both would be covered under the recognition manual entry of 'trawler.' That way players would not know offhand whether they were looking at a harmless fishing vessel or an ASW vessel. They would have to get in close and observe whether the target was armed.
Secondly, Q-Ships. If a category of, say, tramp steamers and small freighters could be made which are heavily armed (but have their gun ranges set very short, and the gun models themselves invisible) that identify the same, and which never appear in convoys, we could get a very good approximation of a Q-Ship.
Especially if we could also add a very high buoyancy cargo type, meant to represent empty oil drums and balsa logs.
I don't mean to create any work for anyone here, I'm just legitimately curious.
There are two reasons I'm curious. One is trawlers. I was wondering about the possibility of adding unarmed trawlers to the game, precisely the same in all dimensions as armed trawlers. Ideally, both would be covered under the recognition manual entry of 'trawler.' That way players would not know offhand whether they were looking at a harmless fishing vessel or an ASW vessel. They would have to get in close and observe whether the target was armed.
Secondly, Q-Ships. If a category of, say, tramp steamers and small freighters could be made which are heavily armed (but have their gun ranges set very short, and the gun models themselves invisible) that identify the same, and which never appear in convoys, we could get a very good approximation of a Q-Ship.
Especially if we could also add a very high buoyancy cargo type, meant to represent empty oil drums and balsa logs.
I don't mean to create any work for anyone here, I'm just legitimately curious.