I think that a DC2 would be great but, instead of just destroyers, work in escorts too, say flower class corvettes, converted tug boats, and maybe even PT Boats. It would be too wide in scope to try to accurately portray bigger ships like cruisers, battleships and god help us carriers but some tin cans would be nice. Other aspects that would be interesting is the way the escorts evolved to meet the increasing threat/annihilation that the U-boats brought about. Radar, better ASDIC sets, most DDs had some of their torpedo tubes landed for more DCs/fuel bunkerage. And for weapons, going from improvised DCs made out of milk jugs all the way to the likes of Hedgehog and Squid (which was fired by the Sonar man IIRC), also, late war the ability to call in a B-24 to drop a FIDO on your submerged contact, how cool would that be? You could have the USN, RN and RCN. Have it so you could work your way up too from just commanding a ship to becoming an escort group commander, ordering other ships as well. I just finished re-reading The Cruel Sea not too long ago and thats why I am bringing all this up. Potentially this could be more monotonous that commanding a submarine, but it the had some sort of time compression/skip ahead like some flight simulators do, it would be achievable. Doing something like this would be HUGE, but don't forget if you want it to be inter-operable, they could probably recycle a lot of it from SH5, the game engine, the 3D models ect.
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