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Originally Posted by jimbuna
You can use Commander to award medals manually.
In my experience I've never seen anyone awarded the wound badge by the game.
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If you have a crew member that gets injured but not killed (which is generally never, either they survive the fight or are killed outright) when you get back to port you'll have x number of wound badges available for the crewmen injured. You can only use these
on the men injured, if you try and give it to another member the game will say that "this person has not been wounded". The game keeps tract of wounded sailors that survive the trip home.
Having an entire crew with EK2's rarely happened as you would constantly get new crewmen aboard that would have no awards save the u-boat badge. There were several times where the entire crew was awarded EK2's after a particular successful/spectacular partrol (Prien's entire crew got EK2's after the Scapa flow mission upon return). EK2's were handed out pretty easily though, if you managed to keep the same crew (or got lucky and got veterans in crew transfers) for 2 or 3 patrols it would have been very possible that at that time the entire crew would have EK2's.
SHC can't automate awards, the auto removes awards that are in conflict with historical data; such as getting a German Cross in 39' or 40'. The real award wasn't established until 41' so SHC removes it for you, it does offer suggestions though when you go to each crew member.
The EK is a very low (only award lower was the combat war merit cross) award. It's present day equavalent would be a Navy Achievement medal (USA) or a Distinguished Service Cross (British). Its only requisites was a "single act of bravery in combat beyond the normal fullfillment of duty".