[idea] bombing raids, is it possible?
 

abit of secondary importance, but has anyone tried shelling land based targets yet?

......what im ultimately getting at, is considering the flex in scripting, im wondering whether the likelihood of home harbour cities and pens being subjected to bombing raids when we return, a'la das boot?

im thinking that as the war progresses the probabilty of the raid increases. high altitude level bombers need not be modeled, but random bombs rain from the sky into the water and surrounding city. even better if air raid siren.wavs can sound and various flak can fire too.

also opens the idea of acoustic mines in the harbour and at the mouth of the pens, kind of a lottery chance upon your return, and adds incentive to drive your boat all the way back.

.......or am i just dreamin?

It was modded into SH3 with no problem (well, except for when you got caught in the middle of one).

SH5 should be just the same.

I'm really wondering myself why there aren't gun platforms and observation posts and whatnot on land, like in SHIII where they had various kinds of machine guns, artillery, AA and even search lights.

If it was one thing the Germans were maniacally building during WWII, it was shore defences. You pretty much can't hike along the coast of Norway without tripping over bunkers, old concrete gun positions, or other fortifications that was to protect Festnung Norwegen -- not to mention there is the rest of the "Atlantic Wall". Yet in SH5 there's not as much as a single land-based pea shooter to be seen:-?.

Someone ought to mod them in. No bombing raid is complete without search light beams illuminating the bombers in the night sky, and AA guns filling the air with tracers and flak clouds.

More on topic (cough), I don't know about planes upon return to port, but it's possible to do as you GWX did in SHIII - have them as a random group just by your airport, so that every time you start a mission, there's a random chance of an air raid or some kind striking the port.

Indeed!
 

Hi,

I'm kind of new here, at least with posting...

I thought the thing with costal defence is also a bit disappointed.

Just started the game and what is the first thing that you want to do... Go to Scappa Flow and follow the... whats his name Gunther Prien? story. Harbor, totally empty, not a single ship no coastal defence etc...

I know Scappa Flow kicked my ass in SH3 or 2.... Can't remember.