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Originally Posted by jimbuna
There is actually a possibility of that happening if you have the Q ship mod enabled because there are only 14 vessels (9 Brit and 5 US).
What frustrates me the most is the fact that you can get a vessels name from either country regardless of the flag she is flying.
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True, I've sunk a few ships so far this career that showed up in the logs with the names of US ships and I'm only up to July 1940. It's kind of jarring to see "USS something or other" on your list of sunk ships in December 1939, lol. Bu-bu-bu-but I saw the flag! They were Tommies, I swear!
When that happens I just open the shipnames.cfg file and choose a different name from the list of ships for that same class, and then go into my career folder and open the file for that patrol's log and sub in a name that at leasts *sounds* British (I figure "Empire something or other" is always a good bet, lol). Then I go into my Commander folder and open the file for used ship names and add the one I've chosen to it, and take out the one that I replaced with it.
My favorite so far though was this last patrol where the ship the game told me was the HMS Warspite when I was sinking it got renamed the HMS Queen Elizabeth in my Commander-generated log. I just named it back as noted above. I know they're the same class ship but I SANK THE WARSPITE DAMMIT.
The real kicker was that it had already shown up a second time later in that same patrol. Imagine my surprise to see her sailing with a convoy out of Freetown in May when I'd just sent her to the bottom somewhere west of Narvik in April.
Edit: hey Steve I wonder do you keep separate lists of which ships are Yanks and which are Tommies? I've considered actually creating two separate shipname files for myself, one that would include the US names and one that didn't. Then I'd just use the "no Yanks" file until after Dec 1941. Please note I'm NOT asking you to create two files for that purpose, I'm just curious if a list of US only ship names is readily available. OTOH I could just take out the ones that are *obviously* US or seem so to me, since if it doesn't seem bloody obvious I'm not gonna know the difference when it shows up in a patrol log.