We Dive at Dawn

[ridgewayranger]

Hi All,
As an ex diesel boat submariner I installed WDAD, having served in T boats.
The first thing I noticed was the name of the career boat, THETIS. She sank in Liverpool Bay on diving trials just before the war with heavy loss of life, 93 I believe, was salvaged and put back into service as Thunderbolt and lost to enemy action in the Med. Because of this I find the choice of name in bad taste and want to change it. Can anyone help please?
R.R.

[JapLance]

In WDAD_v100\Data\Roster\American\Submarine is the file you're looking for: SSTriton.cfg.

You can open it and edit it with the notepad. You must change this part

[Unit 1]
Name=HMS Triton
DOC=19411101
DOD=19760216

[Unit 2]
Name=HMS Thetis
DOC=19411101
DOD=19760528

for example with this:

[Unit 1]
Name=HMS Taku
DOC=19401003
DOD=19760216

[Unit 2]
Name=HMS Talisman
DOC=19401201
DOD=19420917

[Unit 3]
Name=HMS Tarpon
DOC=19391201
DOD=19400414

[Unit 4]
Name=HMS Tetrarch
DOC=19400801
DOD=19411102

[Unit 5]
Name=HMS Thistle
DOC=19390704
DOD=19400410

[Unit 6]
Name=HMS Thunderbolt
DOC=19401201
DOD=19430314

[Unit 7]
Name=HMS Tigris
DOC=19391201
DOD=19430227

[Unit 8]
Name=HMS Torbay
DOC=19410114
DOD=19760528

[Unit 9]
Name=HMS Triad
DOC=19391201
DOD=19401015

[Unit 10]
Name=HMS Tribune
DOC=19391017
DOD=19760528

[Unit 11]
Name=HMS Trident
DOC=19391001
DOD=19760528

[Unit 12]
Name=HMS Triton
DOC=19381109
DOD=19401218

[Unit 13]
Name=HMS Triumph
DOC=19381201
DOD=19420114

[Unit 14]
Name=HMS Truant
DOC=19391201
DOD=19760528

[Unit 15]
Name=HMS Tuna
DOC=19401201
DOD=19760528

Which is taken from the British Mediterranean Campaign Mod (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=181770).

[ridgewayranger]

Many thanks for your help,Japlance. Even the dates for Thetis are wrong. She sank in June 1939 and was subsequently commissioned as Thunderbolt which was sunk in 1943 but Thetis, according to that list did not decommission until 1976????
R.R.

[JapLance]

You're welcome.

My impression is that Lurker gave up on WDAD in an early stage of development, and published what he had at the moment. That could explain this kind of mistakes, because his work with Run Silent, Run Deep and Operation Monsoon is absolutely brilliant.