While your looking at the basic.cfg file, you may notice when it starts listing loadouts for each of the boats.
Intrestingly, for every boat, a loadout exists for it, 1 year before availalbilty date that is listed in an unedited basic.cfg. You can, for instance, simply chnage the availability date for most of the boats to be 1 year earlier, and the game wil still work as intended.
However, any farther back then the loadout years listed, or adding years to the a boats listed will result in a 0 patrol grid bug, or other weird abnormalities..
For example, the Type VCII C/41 is listed available in 1943. However loadouts exist for it from 1942 to the end of the war. You can simply edit the c/41 to say 1942 and thats that.
The VIIC/42 is a differently story. It has loadout slisted from 1943 to the end of the war. Adding additional years, (say 1939 through 1942) won't work, as the loadout config is different then all aother type 7 variants.
the XXI is a real different animal. Its has loadouts listed for 1943 to the end of the war. its availbiltiy date is 1944. Editing ot to be available in 1943 will only work for 1 of the 2 floatillas that get it. In otherwords if you want to be lurking around in a XXI in 1943 cursing the battery recharge , you can set it to 1943 and just start in thet 10th floatilla, and it will work fine. However, it DOES NOT work for the 7th floatilla and will resuilt in a 0 patrol grid bug.
(obviously ive spent waaaayy to much time on experimentation with this)
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