Hilfskreuzers/Auxiliary Cruisers
 

In the 2 times i actually met my friendly Hilfskreuzer, it was flying the Greek flag, do they fly random flags or is it always the Greek flag?

Not sure...depends on what period of the war, I guess.
Maybe it's hiding under the Greek flag?

Ofcourse it's hiding under the Greek flag, Nazi Germany never paid any attention to the Geneva conventions as far as i'm aware...

Just wondering if it always flies the Greek one, or does it randomly choose an Allied flag (British/Australian/American...)

I could understand if it's a static Greek flag, as the famous Atlantis flew it during her sinking...

It always flies the Greek flag.

Aww, that sucks, think it could be modded to fly random flags?

Not that I'm aware of.

I think we managed to put the flag on the Hilfkreuzer in the ship texture.

So mod the texture, add-it via the cfg file in the roster, and you'll get a new version :)

Yeah, i thought something along these lines was possible
but i don't know much about modding SH4... :dead:

Guess ill have to start messing around with the files

Yep, now I see it! Nice little effect there.

Another thing to note is that the Hilfkreuzer sometimes adds a second (fake) funnel, identical in aspect to the real one. Real practice.

I suggest reading this before passing judgement on the Hilfkreuzers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

Also, before any British subsimmers lay charges against the Germans, I suggest reading the "Master and commander" book series. Seems false flag was usual practice in those days.

I think there was an article in one of the Geneva conventions (Or maybe some other convention) that made the use of false flags forbidden, wheter there was such a law, it was obviously ignored by both sides...

It shouldn't be too difficult to include different models for the variants with/without the fake funnel, right?

Not sure if I understand the question?

The Hilfkreuzer IN THE GAME changes to two funnel configuration at some point, and then back and so on. All based on the .eqp file.

Oh, i havn't seem them do that, or maybe i just wasn't looking :damn:

Nice!

[quote=Raptor1]I think there was an article in one of the Geneva conventions (Or maybe some other convention) that made the use of false flags forbidden, wheter there was such a law, it was obviously ignored by both sides...
quote] Geneva convention doesnt say nothing about that. The Maritime law allows the using of a false flag during the cruise, but the real flag have to be raised before starting any fight.
You can see this pratice in the 1960-black\white movie "Under ten flags" with Van Heflin,it's also a nice and filological film:yep: