questions

[fromhell]

i have posted these questions before, but now cant find the posts for the answers.
so here we go;
1 is there a surviving IX boat for the devs to study.?
2 the video says there are 250 convoys in sh5, surley that isnt correct. how many were there up to 43?
3 is the game going to be mission based, like go there sink x tonnage?
4 what does LOL mean when put in a post?
thanks:salute:

[Alienfresser]

1. Yes, Technikmuseum U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer e.V., ah sorry thougt you meant Typ XXI
2. Depends what they mean with convoy, 2+ ships = convoy?
3. As the video shown, for example, blocade Malta, or intercept convoy.
4. Lick or Leech. But I doupt it meens this, because it would not be very polite.

[elanaiba]

Actually, for the type IX, U505 in Chicago is the boat to go to.

We had a couple of guys go there during development of SH3. They visited the boat by flashlight as the current museum section was being built around the uboat at that time :)

[razark]

i have posted these questions before, but now cant find the posts for the answers.
so here we go;
1 is there a surviving IX boat for the devs to study.?

The captured U-505 in Chicago is a Type IX, not sure of any others in a preserved condition.

2 the video says there are 250 convoys in sh5, surley that isnt correct. how many were there up to 43?

I don't know this one.

3 is the game going to be mission based, like go there sink x tonnage?

It's a "dynamic campaign". Take that for what it's worth. No one seems to know exactly what that means, or if their pet definition describes the game. From the screen shoots leaked yesterday, there was one that showed a "Go here, sink 20,000 tons" radio message. There seem to be a set of historically based single missions, and there is a campaign that we don't know enough about yet.

4 what does LOL mean when put in a post?


Laughing out loud.

[fromhell]

thanks for the infomation.:salute:

[ETR3(SS)]

Actually, for the type IX, U505 in Chicago is the boat to go to.

We had a couple of guys go there during development of SH3. They visited the boat by flashlight as the current museum section was being built around the uboat at that time :)It's all finished now. If any of you get the chance to go back you should, it's quite the beautiful exhibit now.:yeah:

[bigboywooly]

There were 18400 + convoys throught the war
Not sure of the figures just up until 43 but a damn sight more than 250

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/hague/index.html

Unless the convoys ingame hark back to the generic convoys of SH3\4 where one instance of a convoy " scripted " could run for 6 months or so with the ship totals being determined by random percentages added during " scripting "

You would have thought that only having a campaign that ends in 43 would have meant the devs would have included more convoy routes
UK coastal convoys etc though that would mean having smaller coastal shipping included too and while we dont know the exact make up of merchants included its prolly fair to say the choices will be similar to SH3\4 in number and type
Even though I know they were sent some coastal models that were going to be in GWX4

[Letum]

There is also a IX boat in the UK (Liverpool?).
However, it spent a long time of the seabed and was rusted to hell.

It's been cut into sections so you can see the rust better.
Probably not the best inspiration.