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Originally Posted by Paul Riley

I didnt know it was as late as 1944 for the UBoat clasp medal.
Anyway,thanks for that

The info I have for the medals in the game other than the many variations of the Iron Cross is this:

U-Boat War Badge (est Oct 13 1939, usually awarded after 2 combat patrols or 1 very successful one)

U-Boat War Badge Front Clasp (est May 15 1944, usually awarded based on 3 criteria: number of sorties against the enemy, or the risk factor relative to the sortie number, or personal bravery)

German Cross in Gold (est Sep 28 1941, usually awarded after IC 1st Class for outstanding achievements and bravery in combat which were not quite worthy of Knight's Cross)

If there is some way of making it impossible for the game to award the last two before the dates they were historically established, I'd love to know so I can work that into my game files. Or even a way to make it award the War Badge after two combat patrols instead of in whatever haphazard way it does it now. (I'm using Commander to make sure my crewmen all get it after 2 patrols, and edited my career cfg files to make sure I got it after 2 patrols.)

But I think if that were possible somebody would've done it by now, lol. So I'm just looking at editing the game files to award the German Cross in between the IC1 and the KC, and then if the date it happens in-game is too early historically I'll edit my career files accordingly.

Hmm... now that I think about it, I wonder if it would be possible to use the Date folders in Commander to insert edited files into the game before/after certain dates that would make it impossible for the German Cross and Front Clasp to be awarded too early in a career.