I got my requirements for North Western Approaches by dinging all these small freighters, except for one Cimmeron tanker, in a sweet spot near the Irish coast and making up the rest with my deck gun. Unless it's just coincidence, with stock, I remember all kinds of larger tonnage ships around, but with OHII, pickings appear slimmer in that regards, which is good, because you have to pick and choose which ships benefit you most.
So, with all torps and gun ammo expended, I proudly sent my patrol report and began my long journey home.
Up until now, the only Bdu messages I got for me were blue or red, never yellow, which I had only thought were myth. Suddenly, I get a yellow message to investigate my area. I'm like "Whut thuh? Really? You finally send me a yellow one and do it just as I'm heading home? Am I supposed to spit on what I find?"
I decided to ignore it and headed home anyways.
I get near Loch Ewe and suddenly I get a big task force right in my path with a nice juicy Nelson Battleship in it. I'm like "really? now? I still ain't got enough spit!"
So, I identify them all, send my contact report, and then go deep to mind my own business and continue on home.
Off I go, eventually getting into the Nord Meer at flank speed and high TC only to bump into a destroyer that doesn't yet see me, but .. his two little submarine friends do. I have only seen one enemy sub at a time in previous campaigns, so I was surprised to see two together now. This pair quickly went below and started to track me, and to my surprise, the destroyer starts heading in my direction too, so I went silent and deep, playing cat and mouse until I finally got away to the point where I could continue my journey home.
And finally, after docking at my base, I was given a new VIIB to trip around in
, upgraded it, then started on my way out. With the pilot doing the work, I start enjoying the view when suddenly, I see a big ship sitting there docked, and I'm thinking "this ain't no regular ship, so I bring up the binoculars and think "wow! is that her?" So, I go to external camera and am happily surprised to see the glorious Bismarck docked right before my eyes. Man, I love this ship, but I have never seen it before in SH3 or SH5, so that was absolutely cool for me!
That's when I realized that the German deck emblems looked like a hospital cross. That sort of deflated my excitement, but it reminded me that I forgot to add the Accurate German Flags mod after all this time (I actually assumed OHII had it). After adding the mod, it asked to overwrite OHII files, which I did. By the way, does this affect anything good in OHII, or is that fine?
Hehehehe .. OHII is already a different experience and I'm enjoying it! You gotta love it!
Cheers ...