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Originally Posted by Gryffon300
Well, its back to a noobie question, i'm afraid.
Trying to get my head around Crew Management. 
Should I use SH3C ('THE' Commander) exclusively for crew management, or continue to go to the Barracks etc from my 'office' pre or post-mission within SH3 GWX3.0? Or both?
There are some significant restrictions from within SH3, which in some ways seem more believable. For example, SH3 only lets me add one qualification per patrol. This means I really have to be on my toes re crew exhaustion v. compartment efficiency, whereas SH3 lets me give everyone in the whole crew multiple qualifications from the first cruise or two. Was this intended? This seems to give me a MUCH better crew than I deserve.
In addition, I, as the commander, seem able to pass out as many awards as I like to the whole crew (after their first patrol with me), whereas, SH3 severly limits the number of awards (seems more like it), though allows the commander to assign who they go to. Again, is this what SH3C intended to do? Would virtually the whole crew really have got Iron Crosses after a successful mission? On this point I admit to being historically bog ignorant (but am curious). |
It's up to you and how you want to play.
From what I've learned here, it's unlikely that any NCO would be an NCO had he not been qualified in some area of special training. So typically after a first patrol I will give a qualification to any petty officer who doesn't already have one.
Also, even if you award qualifications to all your enlisted men (which Commander will let you do), it has no effect on game play as the game itself doesn't recognize it. But it can be helpful to use the feature if you want to assign crewmen to particular areas of duty, which would be realistic as even among the enlisted men on a u-boat the crew was divided between "technical" personnel (engine room, torpedo mechanics, etc.) and those whose primary duties were more traditionally "nautical" in nature - navigation, watchkeeping, etc.
As far as awards go, it did sometimes happen in RL that an entire crew would receive an Iron Cross after a successful patrol, and the game does not allow for this. Even if you feel 4 guys should get a medal or 3 guys deserve promotion, if the game says you can only award 2 medals and 1 promotion, that's what you're stuck with.
SH3 Commander simply intends to give you
more options than the game does. How you use them and whether or not you do use them is up to you.
