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Originally Posted by Trevally.
I need to play more and test this myself.
Re: DD not counting - Not sure if they should  |
Ok cool. Re the DD's, if they're escorting Carriers/Cruisers/Battleships (cruisers and battleships seem to use the same models on occasion so I get confused) that do count then I'd expect them to count as well. The Carriers/Battleships etc do as I've sunk one or two and seen the tonnage bar go up.
I think the main difficulties with OW are the time-frame and traffic. The only ships I've seen in over five attempts at OW are very infrequent neutral (green) merchants and a lot of heavily escorted British warships. This is especially odd as Wiki (not the best I know, but a quick reference) says the first Naval Battle at Narvik didn't take place until April 10th:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...ttle_of_Narvik
... and that the initial Narvik defense consisted of a few patrol boats and one or two decrepit coastal defence vessels. So it seems bizarre to see huge amounts of Allied Warships entering Narvik up to 10 days before the first major Naval battle.
In terms of game-time (especially in the current version, where attacking any warship can lead to you being held down by DCs for days if you time it close to another convoy's arrival), 10 days isn't long enough to get back up there if you have to refit torps or fuel midway through the mission. I guess you timed it for ten days to match the historical operation, but if that's the case the fjord needs more (or at least some!) enemy merchant traffic both incoming and outgoing, and the Allied Warfleet should be much slower in arriving to reflect the history better.
If you want to keep it as 10 days without changing the traffic too much, I'd suggest altering the tonnage/ship requirements to sink one Brit ship en route and one ship in the Narvik area - this would be potentially possible even with low torps/fuel at mission start and would probably make it much less frustrating.
Hope these suggestions are a help!