Purple Heart Award???

[Pappy55]

Hi all,

Just dug up SH4 again now its "playable" and just done my first war patrol and sunk 2 merchants and a passanger liner escorted by 4 destroyers headed for Borneo..

Returned home and was awarded the Purple Heart..
This is the part I do not understand..
No crew were wounded or killed. we suffered no damadge what so ever..

Only attack on me was by a few A/C and every time I crash dived in time so they coulden't bomb me.

Being British I am not 100% on US medals but i thought that the Purple Heart was only awarded as a result of being wounded or killed by direct action from the enemy in combat.

Can anyone throw any light on this?

[seafarer]

The medals are not based on real medals nor on real world basis for receiving them. On my first war patrol, I received the Medal Of Honor - all I did was sink a couple of small tonnage coastal freighters, and burn up tons of diesel fuel.

It seems that crew members get purple hearts for stubbing their toes on the hatch gratings - perhaps during a crash dive? Just to at least make it (a little) more then a mere boo-boo.

[Pappy55]

Any mods to sort this out?

[Dignan]

You're not alone. I get the purple heart after EVERY mission. I also am given 2 or 3 to hand out to my non injured crew. Definitely a bug.