[Sledgehammer427]

In light of the arguments here and the SWSM forums, I think a good mix of Historically accurate and "what-ifs" are in order.

okay, obviously, we have to completely toss the Bismarck and the other capital ships being sunk. I was thinking to make the Bismarck be unavailable after she was sunk, I.E, another commander was selected and he got her sunk anyways. But if you select the Bismarck, you can rewrite history but Germany will still lose.
The problem is is that a certain class of ships, best illustrated by the Scheer, Spee, and Deutschland/Lutzow is completely seperate of one another, the only time any of these ships will be in the same place is when they come off the slips, or when they met up in Norway. We have to make every ship it's own class, so we can split them up and keep a good dose of historical accuracy. Spee was already in the south Atlantic when the war started, the Scheer was still fitting out IIRC, and the Deutschland was out in the Baltic training. The Bismarck and Tirpitz were launched relatively close together, but still never really saw each other until they were ordered to blockade the Baltic from the supposedly escaping Russians, which never happened, and they never saw each other again.
putting one class of ships in the same base is silly and inaccurate, I would like to see accurate bases for the selected time period.