Short answer: yes

Long answer: From the GWX V3.0 Gold manual page 200.

"Operation Rheinubung in GWX
Operation Rheinubung ("Rhine Exercise") features a breakout by the battleship Bismark and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. They meet HMS Hood and Prince of Wales, sink the Hood, and then split up, generally following their historical journeys to survival or destruction."

Awesome :up:
Didn't think to RTFM thanks for looking it up :salute:

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(Because the manual is actually a very interesting read. And there's a load of handy information on tactics in the Appendices at the end)

To be fair, I did actually spend a good hour this morning reading the various real-life events that are included in GWX. I didn't think it was possible to become even more impressed by this mod :yeah:

How? I was fresh out of bananas and couldn't keep up with just oars! :03:

yes it is.

Capital ships
 

Sank A brooklyn Cruiser in A convoy once And another British Cruiser in another. They seem to be Rare. Every time I get Radio message about task force, they are to far away and to fast.

Very inconsiderate if you ask me. You'd think they'd at least have the decency to slow down and knock off the evasive maneuvers for a clear shot or two! :03:

Hood
 

Where can I find the Hood battlecruiser mod?

You can try here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=95163

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I remember my first encounter with a capital ship playing stock SH3. A Revenge class BB in a task force going East into the Mediterranean (I was stationed at La Spezia) out of Gibraltar. I didn't believe my eyes when I first saw it.

As for GWX, at one point I was north of Ireland (VERY early in the war, Sept '39 I think) when I encountered a British task force with the Renown and Hood. The Hood was going straight, but the Renown kept changing course (maybe zigzagging, but it looked like it was trying to take the Hood's position in the group) Anyways I report in the task force to BdU (I had only a couple days prior received a telegram saying not to engage capital ships so we can try to talk out of the war) and close in, luck was on my side, the weather was clear and night was approaching fast. I waited for a response but soon I lost patience and fired my for bow shots at the Hood and the one after shot at the zigzagging Renown. All five ended up hitting the Hood and sent her down. I got within 400 meters of a destroyer that was probably pinging her heart out but somehow her lookouts didn't see me on the surface (You could cut the tension with a knife, I was waiting for the searchlights to all suddenly turn on and point at me as a volley of tracers flew out) and I was able to escape. Funnily enough, the British were able to dive down and surface the Hood, repair her wounds and restaff her in time for her as well as Prince of Wales to be sunk by the Same Kaleun as they steamed out to stop the Bismarck (yet the newspapers still credited the Bismarck with the kill...)

As for American ships, if you swing by Casablanca at the right time in '43, there's a certain U.S. super-battleship (BB-61 Iowa) that has just dropped off FDR after a trans-Atlantic trip (you can also find a Casablanca escort carrier here, too. You could also sink them as they are en route, but then you have to factor in about 20 DDs as opposed to a single armed trawler puttering around the port). Once I saw a Nevada class south of Iceland. I surfaced and said hello (the amis were still neutral). I was tempted to fire, but I knew orders to become a minefield clearer on the Eastern Front would be waiting for me if I did.

Edit: minor brain fart and used wrong ship name

They can both be found there from 22nd November 1943 until 2nd December 1943

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encounter similar to wildweasels HMS Hood all by herself north of Ireland. AM 36 9/20/1939 1st time had seen her in 3yrs of playing off and on. Wildweasels right. Tension, man don't wont to blow this. Save game, go get a beer and think. Line her up unleash 4 bow fish, 2 hit she slows and is listing. My heart is racing,hurry up down there in torpedo room. finally, torpedo 1 ready sir. Slam another into her,buy more time. Torpedo 2 ready sir. Door opens wife says I'm ready. WHAT? Quick pause. Yo Hon not now PUHLEESE. back to game, fire tube two hit Hood and down she goes. It all happened pretty much just like that. No BS.

^^^ Good job! :up: