Dover. What a mess.
 

I'm assuming that Dinsdale was the Dover parking attendant for Dover in 1939 because on my shakedown cruise, I sailed past their port and every ship was either smashed to pieces, on fire, or sunk. My crew just :nope: and kept going southwest.

That or he's in partnership with a one Bernard.....:har::har:

It sounds like all vessels in port have lost their waypoints.....this usually only happens when you save within rendering range of the scripted vessels :hmmm:

The British Bernard must be "Bernie". :D

Nope. That was what I thought. Thats why I never save unless I'm far away from port or docking. This time however, it was the 1939 shakedown cruise in August and I didn't save anything. I just sailed straight out there and decided to check out Der Channel because I knew I wouldn't get the opportunity in the future. I decided to go check out the "white cliffs of Dover" and when we got there, it was in total ruin.

I've just checked the campaign file and everything looks okay.

This has got to be the most serious case of ingame 'unit drifting' I have heard of :hmmm:

Just cruised past Dover in Aug 1939 and didn't see any problems.

Two possibilities I can think of:
1. As Jim said, massive unit drift.
2. Maybe the old 'neutrals hate each other' thing, where if a single round is fired by a unit and it hits a ship of the same nation they all go nuts and shoot each other into oblivion. The best example of this is the convoy attack exam - surface really close to one of the mechants, wait for an escort to fire and hit the merch and they'll all sink each other. This option is unlikely given that it is 1939 and before the war starts, but possible.

If we pull that off successfully, we should get the tonnage for it ! :DL

I'm assuming that it was probably that it was the ships losing their waypoints and drifting for some reason. Who knows. I started a new career and drove past there again on the same day and time that I saw the "catastrophe" and everything seemed fine this time. *Shrug* no biggie. Just some ships that those Brits won't be able to throw against me later I guess. :DL

Stooooopid SH3 game engine http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...lies/wacko.gif

Hmm, my theory is that if the weather was good then it could be the oily sea... :haha:

If only that was possible! Unfortnately you have to fire the last round to hit the ship in order to get credit for the sinking. The only real way would be to set them on each other then sink with torpedoes once the hit points are reduced. It definitely keeps the DDs off you, though.