Ships Journal
 

Hey all

I've never used the Ships Journal feature before, never found a need to and I didn't know what it did.

However now I'm using TWoS with the Enigma machine I have found I might receive an encoded message, but I may not decode it straight away, instead saving my game (and journal) and then exiting the game, at the end of the night when I go to bed for example.

So obviously I need to now use the ships journal feature to preserve those encoded messages for later decoding.

I see you can have multiple journals so I thought about keeping a journal per home base, so I start off at Memel with one journal, switch to Kiel and start another, and so on.

I'm wondering though how everyone else goes about keeping their journals?

Most of the combat encrypted messages are sent to the Captains log and may or may not be sent as a "Radio" message. If you want the message in the Ships journal, you need to decode the message first and then transfer the message to the Ships Journal via the note pad (Schlüsselzettel).

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Make sure you exit the game via the main UI. If you exit straight to Windows, the current entries in the Ship's Journal will not be updated.

I'm losing a lot of entries/radio messages with CTD's, just had a couple trying to get to Kiel (from the Baltic), you get to about 150km away and it CTD's if your using TC higher than 32.

It's ridiculous, if I have to keep going everywhere on TC 32 it'll take me forever to get anywhere!!

I guess I'll have to manually save the journal periodically.

Does keeping multiple journals work, does it bring anything useful to the table or is it pointless and better to stick with just one big one?

I usually start a new journal for each patrol. This is not necessary but it helps not having irrelevant material in the current Ship's journal. Just make sure you don't have "Read Journal Entries" selected If you want to import previous Super marks or Nav marks otherwise it will import all the existing entries giving you multiple entries that are exactly the same.

How do you get the messages to appear in the bedeutung blatt portion?