Resupply mod request and function clarification

[ual002]

Does anyone here understand the folder and file structure for resupply requests (talking to your radio man) to make a mod that allows it in ALL of the campaigns used in Open Horizons II. Not 100 percent chance of getting it but somewhere between 25% to 50%. I haven't ever got past the first two campaigns thanks to the buggy nature of the game and I typically give up during the first Happy time.

Also consider some possible functionality that if I come across a German convoy, if I can come alongside a merchant or destroyer and request fuel and Torps.

Also, as I understand it the resupply request did NOT function at all in the vanilla game and it only works in Open Horizon II during Operation Monsoon? (this may need clarification) . Also, can someone continuously request resupply until they get it or is it one shot and if you don't get it you never will on that patrol?

Keep up the great work guys!

[Trevally.]

You can resupply at:-

Your home base.
A friendly port.
A resupply ships (I am guessing this is the one you are looking for info on)

Resupply ships do work in the stock campaign, but OHII make better use of them. It also uses them more often and will expand on this with the research that Gap has done.
Here we see a resupply ship in a Spanish port where you would not nermally be allowed to resupply.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7039/44725564.jpg

The stock game also has a bug where you can only re-supply once per patrol (that is if a supply ship is provided for that patrol and you are within range). So asking your radio man again and again will not work.
You will get it first time if there is one.

You can use TDWs patcher to fix this supply bug and then you can request as often as you like.

[ual002]

Yes! Ok, yes I'm familiar with the difference between 'end patrol' and 'refit' at all the friendly ports but I have NEVER seen a resupply ship moving or stationary. SO, essentially your saying I could find them possibly in a neutral port stationary and sometimes during patrols? Which patrols? Essentially I'm asking should I just check with my radio man more often now that I'm running Open Horizons?

I am currently on 'Coastal Water's and have tried to call resupply after the very first mission to patrol the Polish waters. Tried 2 times en-route to Kiel about 2 days apart and got "Captain, they've denied our resupply" both times. I just went back to port and ended patrol. By that time I took a lot of damage by a Swedish armed merchant after I opened up with a deck gun as I had no torps. Probably should have left him alone as he was neutral and heading to a neutral port. (I can guess calling resupply ship doesn't repair hull damage just like a port refit.)


By the way Trevally, you have some nice mods I've used before. And still do I think. Bravo. Lol, just checked, you did OHII. I'm an idiot.


Last edit. So tell me, since you mentioned the The Dark Wraith's Generic Patcher... when I make a mod folder with a new SH5, do I enable in jsgme first? All the mod lists all over this forum and I never see that listed.

[Trevally.]

Only some campaigns will have the resupply ships - Coastal waters is not one of them.

See here for how to make a jsgme ready mod with TDWs patcher http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=197960:up:

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Here we see a resupply ship in a Spanish port where you would not nermally be allowed to resupply.

:yeah:

nice screenie and perfect timing Kpt.Lt. Trevally! Refitting from interned ships wasn't officially allowed, and when they had to do so, they usually did it over night under cover of darkness :arrgh!:

Only some campaigns will have the resupply ships - Coastal waters is not one of them.

Good topic for another research: by now we know in wich campaigns -and in which map locations- we can realistically resupply from surface units. Now we need to know the same for boat to boat refuellings. :hmm2: