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ok thanks guys--no-body has to use my files/mod (stating the obvious of course!)
i came to this thread in the same boat as everybody else--SH3 was an over elaborate screen saver for me--very nice to look at but the DD's were just eye candy completely useless--it would be impossible to exceragerate just quite how useless they were--and there was literally no gameplay what so ever--

all i wanted was for them to do their job---protecting the convoys

so i could get on with doing mine (virtually of course) ie sinking merchants--i try to sink em-- DD's try to stop me--that's the gameplay at the end of the day--

with some luck and a lot of help i came up with summat that persuaded the DD's that doing their job was worth the effort--hence gameplay--hence my problem solved-- woohoo etc

no other mod seemed forth coming even tho i waited --the thread had died---so i made it into a downloadable mod--
no intention to compete with any one else just one thing along with Red's files for folks to at least have a go with--

as i say i can't find anything wrong with it---gameplay for me is great and over time other tweaks will suggest them selves so i'll alter it as and when some small refinement seems to be a good idea--but the jist of it is-- job done--

my current career is at feb 1943 and my last patrol resulted in two ships sunk after a long convoy attack and every torpedo expended from a type 9 c- (four seperate attacks --one in the evening--one at dusk -- one in the middle of the night- - and the final attempt in the morning--each time breaking off surfacing reloading recharging and repositioning again)

total was 24,000 tons

the DD's put up a good show --and I was only able to sink the ships after as BDU calls it "getting aggressive"-- now i know what they meant at last lol--
and this sort of behaviour from the DD's has proven consistent right thru many many previous patrols--
whew reliable game-play at last--