[lurker_hlb3]

The following is a response to a number of different posts over the last week.

Originally Posted by walsh2509

I was making my way back from a patrol off Lisbon, I got near the south coast of Ireland (11th Jan 1940) when I noticed that the Red ports of France were now Black (or Dark Blue). I took a closer look along the south coast of England and saw that some of the port there were now Black too orther where the same Red ports.

The other one I noticed, while Dublin was Black, Belfast which should have been Red was now Black too..

OM makes no changes to the Campaign.LOC file other than add some additional port for Norway and the Black Sea. Your issue is a “stock” problem not OM

Originally Posted by walsh2509

1. How fast should merchants turn ? stock game they were turning through the likes of 150,151,152,153 about 1pt every second, but not much slower in 712 where I counted it off at 1-2 seconds a point. Should it be slower than that?

I have no idea, I have never conducted this type of test

Originally Posted by walsh2509

2. How many shells to sink a merchant , coastal about 4,000tns I hit her decks with about 12 shots very close range. Her bridge,Funnel,Masts, and holds were on fire 6 -7 fires in all, from bow to stern. I also fired in about 25 shells into her water line, but still she sailed on. In fact I got that close when she dipped at the bow her prop and rudder were exposed, I fired 4-5 shot in there at point blanks range. I take it HE shells do no damage to this part of ships?

Let the AI gunners do the shooting and tell them to aim for the water line, then it will take any where from 25 to 40 rounds on “average” to sink a merchant. FYI the damage model used is from RFB and was develop by “Observer”. If you wish to learn more about it you need to download this,

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=429

and go to the section on the damage model and learn how it works.

Originally Posted by walsh2509

oh one more, on missions in 712 I sail out of WH but that is now 4 patrols in a row I have been sent to station of the coast of Portugal, Sept through Jan40 just set off again Feb40 and I have been sent back there again. I completed all the mission and so far I have sunk 60,000+tns, 11 mechants my last partol for 44,000+tns. The thing is , on my voyage to Portugal, round the North of Scotalnd and down the coast of Ireland all the merchants I have come across in 712 have been on there own, not one convoy have I came across. All the sightings that appear on the map and I plot to intercept, in all 4 missions they have been single ships.

I assume that your using a Type IX U-boat, in which case, base on the historical records, you patrol area from war start until Operation Weserübung, is the north coast of Portugal to the Straits of Gibraltar.

Shipping levels for the areas around the UK are “as designed”

Originally Posted by walsh2509

Quick Q? on OM712 , when I torp ships now there is the explosion and water plume, but no after explosions as with the stock version. Some times a little fire and the ship sails on, is that part of the mod?

As stated before the results you’re seeing are based on the damage model

Originally Posted by OrangeYoshi

I know that IN RSRDC you have many differect kinds of mission. You have the general anti-shipping missions, you have the recon missions, the spy/commando missions, and the missions which make you dock at certain places and then continue. I like the missions very much.

What I would like to know is if you have included any such missions in OM. They help to break up the boredom that can come with constant patrol missions.

First, there were a limited number of real world “SpecOps” mission conducted by U-boats, but the main reason you won’t see them is because of a “bug” that cause the system to CTD when attempting to launch spy/commando missions from a U-Boat.

Originally Posted by Antar

#1
That is correct Regia Marina is not available?
Of course I think about f.e. BB Littorio class not only DD Soldati

There are a number of very good 3d models for all units in the “Regia Marina” (BB, CA, CL, etc) that have been created for SH3 , however for reason I do not wish to get into, I am unable to use those ships.

Originally Posted by Antar

#1
I tried to create mission with Vichy France ships (at 1942).
Unfortunately "Vichy France" (Occupied France) is allied side and should be axis...

When you create a unit in a mission file, you most ensure that the “creation date” and the “cfg date” are within the start / end dates for the country in question. Also you “must” ensure you check the “evolve from creation date” box. Failure to do so will cause the mission editor to generate an incorrect “side” setting.

Originally Posted by xristoskaiti

travelled outside from a harbour of France in-depth 35m roughly and I
accepted suddenly air depth with result the destruction of my
submarine......
my problem of they is not sensors planes other the force air depth....
they is historical realistic for English air depth causing destruction
submarine in this depth??

From the “readme” in the first post of this thread


Added the airborne version of the Hedgehog Depth Bomb used on “MAD” equipped PBY5A’s.

Added “MAD” airborne sensor (modified “visual” sensor)

Originally Posted by Dough13

Thanks...yeah...didn't look at the readme file thanks again

Originally Posted by walsh2509

This happened , I was sitting 800yrds from a 10,000 York Class Crusier , I am not playing Manual targetting , I am using the Pscope (L - lock key) I was locked on and when the icon turned Green I fired. I followed the torp in and it was heading for her midships. To my horror , It would have hit but I could not believe it when it sailed right on about 15ft below the ship.

And

My 2 missed shots , I went back again to it and checked the depth of the torps. I picked tube 3, a York type cruiser has a depth of *15ft7 (i take it , it is ft) anyway, when I clicked on Tube 3 for both shots the Default depth setting for the torp was *13ft4 but they till went well under the ship.

* give or take a few inches!

I tried again and set a depth of about 7ft, the hole in the ship was mostly Under the keel, the hole was from centre line out and slightly up the side of the ship.

In the default game, I would check the depth of a ship , say 15ft, I would set the torp to 15ft and a couple of inches so the torp explodes under the ship ranther into the side of it.

The shots that went well under the York Type were default set at 13ft+, the shot that hit the ship, the damage was more under than in the side and that shot was half the depth of the ships depth ??

First, there is no “York Class” cruiser in OM; however there are the Kent CA, and the C/D CL’s. All I ask of people when the have a “comment / compliant" is to provide the following information:

Date
Location
Type of sub
Flotilla assigned
Type of weapon used (Torpedo Type / Gun Type)

Since you have not done that, I am unable to recreate your problem, Of note if this was a Type G7a before 2/9/42 then your weapon will have a 40 percent chance of a “depth keeping” problem, which is historical accurate.