I agree hospital ships would likely not be in a convoy. But, there are many things that are not quite right about this game and I feel it makes for better play to add a few.
I was attacking a convoy last night mid 1942. I could get close enough to launch into it but knew a transport was there and did not risk it. By having just a few possible, it changes your shoot at anything attitude and I like that.
I had taken out 3 escorts 2 with hom fish and had a bow and stern homy ready for the next one. I fired, he didn’t go down???? I turned and fired the stern, no hit????
I crash dived and got to0 far away to retake the convoy. Then I got “torpedo impact�, enemy unit destroyed. I was mortified. But, it was small cargo, my only merchant in the convoy (the other hom boy hit a big cargo, damaged.) That adds something extra, IMO.

As far as my additional escorts 3 and 4 rated; I was sunk on my first 1942 patrol, gun fire, DCs and rammed by a merchant, sunk on my third patrol by DCing and sunk on my first patrol by Catalinas 100 miles west of Brest. Sunk 3 times in 5 patrols. I think I have finally got it hard enough, LOL

As far as worst atrocities, I assume you mean nautical. The 10.5 million (4.5 Million Jews and 6 million gentiles) killed in the camps might be the worst!!!

Wulfmann

Yep. It's in the basic.cfg file. There's a subsection about renown looking like this:

[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=500
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=200
CompletedPatrol=100
NEUTRAL=-0
ALLIED=1
AXIS=-10
WrongShipSunk=-5000
FirstRankRenown=1000
SecondRankRenown=3500
EndCampaign=-5000

And I simply changed the value from NEUTRAL=-0 to NEUTRAL=1 and I now get full renown.

I also changed the value for reaching and completing the patrol grid so I get little for getting there and more for completing it as well as more for coming back to port. It adds up to the same but its an incentive to complete the missiom. Just my opinion.

Since I greatly reduced the tonnage in ships I also reduced the requirements for crew medals, promotions and renown occordingly so my score, about 50% tonnage of what it was for the same number of ships, does not change the reward for success. I still out score the real aces because I am sinking twice the ships they are but at least I am not running up a million tons in 3 years.

Wulfmann


[RENOWN]
RenownReachGridObjCompleted=200
RenownPatrolGridObjCompleted=300
CompletedPatrol=300
NEUTRAL=1
ALLIED=1
AXIS=-10
WrongShipSunk=-5000
FirstRankRenown=1000
SecondRankRenown=3500
EndCampaign=-5000

Good idea. I like that!


Nope ins 6 years :-j
Just kidding. Is that a mod you published? Must've escaped my attention. Will have a look at terrapin's site in the evening!

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Wulfmann

You're right of course. It wasn't my intention to size up one atrocity to another, just to show that all parties concerned did some terrible things. The Japanese worked tens of thousands of Chinese to death, the British purposely bombed civilians in the German cities trying to break their will and utterly failing to do that, the Americans incinerated the population of two whole cities full of civilians and let the rest die of exposure, and the Russian government under Stalin turned on their own people and had several million killed.
When it comes to the death toll my ancestors still get the credit for being the worst and I guess it's well-deserved.
However: think about one thing: had the axis powers won the war (and thank god they didn't!) what would you think would've become of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in history?