Well seeing as the entire TSWSM team is now expressing it's opinions on here as welel as our mod forums (not a gripe ... just an observation) ... I don't want to be left out so I'm inserting my post here from our forums for folk outside of our team to see;
Just to respond to thequestion regarding historical accuracy v gaming interest posted on the sub sim forums ... you know my opinion is to have some "deviation" from history - basically what if Hitler hadn't lost his bottle after the Bismark was sunk. Here's a couple of ideas;
1) Continued attempts by Scheer class ships to break out into atlantic to attack convoys - con run these as a playable career for the Deusthland class throughout the way - use the historical stuff upto Bismark sinking and then deviate as I suggest.
2) As above, make attempted breakouts by Tirpitz accompanied by Scharnhorst and / or Giesnau and possibly a Deusthland.
3) Attempt to have Bismark and whatever else available suicidely intercept / intervene in the D-Day landings - suspect would be similar fate to the last Yamato mission.... but worth putting in the campaign ?
4) Continued armed merchant raiding missionsin the atlantic, maybe accompanied by our newly developed sub capability (imagine a Milch cow which is also actively engaged in commerce raiding ?).
5) More ficticous attempts to use the German surface fleet (various) to bombard Northern Prussia etc during last days of war (some of this actually happenned ....but just expand it a little).
6) This is historically accurate - but maybe can be made more interesting - the whole Norwegian invaision - there were some veyr interesting surface engagements ... maybe we can just spice up alittle ?
7) Attempt to get Geisnau into the med ?
8) As above - maybe attempt to get a German fleet to relieve the blockaded Vichy fleet before it's destruction by the RN ?
9) Med stuff could be developed further once we have Italian ships converted (not first relese, I know, but worht a thought) ... in fact the whole med scenario is a big subject .... lot's of possibilities for battles which either never happenned or very nearly happenned .... what would have taken place had the Italians not run for port when engaged by Warspite & co. ?
10) ... controversial - same argument I used before for Hood surviving ...what if Bismark had returned to Norway after engaging POW & Hood ?
I think the above are worth considering given that restricting the German surface action to same / similar directive as U-boat war doesn't really provide the freedom you get by playing a U-boat - because the U-Boats scope of operations were massive throughout the enetire war.
And on the lighter side ... hell I've been getting so much general modding / damage modelling work to do ... I don't see why I shouldn't increase the work our leader has to do on the campaign files
