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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Some things are entirely plausible, dynamic, and will not change historical events. A great example is as AVG mentioned, convoys being rerouted if a Uboat was known to be in a certain area. That really happened.
But things like saving the Bismark or altering any major historical outcomes so the Nazi's win should be right out. It's disgraceful and in extremely poor taste. Therego I don't think the campaign should handle those things any differently then it did in SH3 or Sh4.
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I just finished a patrol in which I sank the Nelson near Gibraltar. Which was odd, because the patrol before I sank her north of Scotland. And the patrol before that I actually sank her near Norway.
Now, I know that I had quite some (bad) luck to run into the Nelson three patrols in a row, but the fact that she did not remain sunk was kind of unnerving to me. Its not just "a Nelson class vessel" but the actual HMS Nelson, so in a simulation I would expect her to obey the laws of time and space and not just reappear no matter what I do.
I see your point, but in order to ignore such things as the sinking of important ships one would have to remove them and replace them with generic vessels of that class (such as in SH4 when I remember right). So either Hood, Nelson and Bismark are in the game and I can actually sink them (for good!) or they should not appear in it at all. And I for one would be kind of sad about that.
But as written here before: Saving the Bismark (however unlikely this actually is when SH5 holds its end of the dynamic campaign and reacting enemy AI as promised) or sinking the Nelson does not mean that the Brits will have to eat Sauerkraut from that day on. I expect that no matter how "dynamic" they make the campaign, a certain flow of gneric ships (merchant and navy) will keep on coming and thereby ensure that Britain holds out just fine.
And regarding the change of certain aspects of the war: I assume UBI chose Malta as a PR stunt for a good reason. It was important for the war in north africa and it heavily relied on convoy support, so cutting this support actually has a huge impact on Malta and explains why in SH5 it can fall to Italy. But what other aspect of the uboot warfare would have similar outcomes? Appart from africa the remaining targets are England, the Soviet Union and the USA and it would take a hell of a lot sunk ships to justify any change of the war that results in a defeat of those nations, so I assume ( / hope) that UBI did not include any win option for the Germans there.