Naval Academy
 

Does it give you a higher rank by completing it or is it just a thing to give players a better feel for the game?

Completing the Naval Academy gives you 1000 extra renown for your career:up:

If I remember correctly you need around 2500 renown to get your first promotion.

If you want to do the academy, do it with vanilla SH3. It is impossible with GWX.

How so?

(Probably) higher realism level,matey. The academy missions were designed to run with vanilla, not GWX. GWX makes it WAY harder, or impossible..

Believe me. Its near impossible with GWX.

I did the torpedo mission for the hell of it a few days ago and though I managed to get them all but one, my last two torpedoes were duds. And the other small merchant that I hit with one torp didn't sink.:o

You can do it but its hard.

Then theres the mock convoy battle. Theres only one Escort but its light out, you only have steamers, you're 800meters from the convoy, and you only have 120 meters to dive. Maybe with an electric torp you could get away with sinking the escort but its hard to escape him in the shallows. And since he's around 1500 meters away to begin with you're boned.

Still: why? Honestly, I think I played the whole academy after I installed GWX without thinking about if it's going to be more difficult. And I am not that good. Therefor I think the level is pretty much the same.

Edit: Oh, I see after P_FUnk's post.

I didn't sink all of them, some got away. But that doesn't matter, you can get the full renown without sinking all.

I attacked the steamers first and dived down then. Then that trawler-bug occured (shot the escort to pieces) and it was easy to sink what was left.