Originally Posted by PathTracer (Post 1857967)

great mod

Originally Posted by Trevally. (Post 1857327)

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions they would like added to the campaign - now would be a good time to let me know:sunny:

Originally Posted by Swat (Post 1858289)

Thanks for the reply guys, I'll se what I can do.

sober: I think I did start my career properly. I've played the tutorial without any mods whatsoever, just vanilla game patched to 1.2. Docked at Kiel, blah blah blah with the captain and officer.

Exit and installed the mods. Back to game, new campaign, skipped tutorial, adjusted realism settings, interaction with gun officer, sub setup, then mission briefing and started my first patrol with loading screen.

What could possibly go wrong?

Originally Posted by joey777 (Post 1858298)

Another thank you for all af you who worked on this mod !

Originally Posted by sober (Post 1858294)

Srsly , were playing SH5 here . What could go wrong :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Originally Posted by gap (Post 1858291)

Hi Trevally, thank you for your inestimable work, and for all the effort and time you're putting in it!
Though not currently playing the game, I highly appreciate and follow with maximum interest the development of OHII, like everyone in subsim community, but I think you know it allready, so let's go to the point... :DL


A few weeks ago, while reading on the web about WWII U-boat historical operations, to my surprise I've discovered the existence of the so called Monsun Gruppe, whose theatre was partly South Pacific, partly Indian Ocean and Far East. What about adding to OHII a new campaign for it?

I know that most of Monsoon U-boats were of the type IX, currently not featured by SH5, but hopefully with the development of GR2 editor by TDW, one day we will be able to add these boats to the game. I am also aware that adding a new war theatre to the existing campaigns would probably require a lot of work in creating some new nations, new shipping lines, new ports and player bases (and possibly much more that I can't think of right now :oops:), but these additions shouldn't necessarily featured in the next release of OHII, and in my opinion they would add a lot to the depth of the game. After all we have a whole SH5 earth globe, but we are currently using only a small part of it.

Provided that you like the idea, I would be glad to collect some historical data on it. Too bad, the next week I'll have to go abroad for field work, and I'll not be back until 4 weeks from now. In the meanwhile you could consult the following links for general information:

http://uboat.net/ops/monsun.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsun_Gruppe
http://www.uboataces.com/articles-fareast-boats4.shtml
http://monsun-uboats.blogspot.it/

Originally Posted by Trevally. (Post 1858304)

SOmething like this
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5835/campaigndates.png

The Final Year (black may) must be last in the campaign, but MG could fit in as above.

It looks good, but in my opinion -if possible- the new campaign would be more in line with the Mare Nostrum/Battle of Mediterranean/Distant Waters thread, since it seems to me that monsun operations should be a logical consequence of Pacific and South African objectives contained in Distant Waters. If we succeed in them, we go straight to Monsun Gruppe campaign, otherwise we get back in the main line, with the Turning Point campaign. In this way Distant Waters would be a preamble, containing pre-Monsun operations (http://uboat.net/ops/monsun2.htm). Side effect is that by moving MG on top, we are stuffing Mare Nostrum thread with many campaigns, while the Western Approaches/Arctic Convoys thread becomes comparatively poor. The only solution would be to think of another new campaign to be put where you placed MG! :D
As for MG campaign starting date (if you accept my idea we should change it, as the one proposed by you would overlap with the en date of Distant Waters), the end of march 1943 could be an option (DW finishes on 15th of february, so we would get time for a 6 weeks long leave :yeah:). Actually the first U-boat patroling the area was U-178, leaving Bordeaux for Penang on 28/03/1943, followed by U-511 on 10/05/1943. Though scoring some "tonnage" success during their passages, these boats were sent to far east for logistics tasks and for establishing the German base in Penang. Actually the first real wave of "Monsun Boats" leaving european ports for Penang happened between june and july of the same year (this one could be another option).


This could be set for all the new layers to be within this campaign only so as not to effect any other campaign performance due to more layers added.

Indeed, we don't want to overheat our GPU with traffic unneded during other campaigns ;)

The only thing I am not sure if I can do is to place bunkers where they would need to be (have not tried before):hmmm:

No idea here. The main base should be Penang (Malaysia). Other small bases, used for repairs and refuelling were established also in Kobe (Japan) Singapore, Surabaya and Jakarta (both in Indonesia). Due to increasing resupply difficulties in Penang, the base of Jakarta acquired increasing importance, for its better acces to oil.

Using VII type boats - this could be set for VIIC or C41 and if we ever get new types, they could be added to the campaign easily.

The only problem I see with the use of VIIC U-boats could be their relatively short range if compared with type IX. This fact coupled with the long patrols you would expect in such a campaign and the small number of friendly bases for resupplies, could end our passages in high seas :shifty: