[Hylander_1314]

Thanks Armistead!

What I have been trying to do, is figure out how to make them more rolling than heavy chop, like the big ocean does. My uncle has been ribbing me because the waves look like what we get here on the Great lakes during storms. And he should know having served on the lake boats and been through many a gale on them from 1971 to 1998.

As he put it the last time he saw me playing the game, "ah, I see you're hunting Japanese ships on Lake Superior again".

And he does have a point, that the waves on the big lakes do get heavy chop, because the ricochette off the shorelines and causes the waves to be more like steep sided mountains, with that are more like giant chop that can reach 35ft on average, with rogues that reach 60 to 90ft.

What my uncle explained about the difference, is that on the ocean, the waves tend to go one direction, which follows the wind direction. And usually, they tend to roll more so than be choppy, unless you go through a typhhon like Halsey did, where they encountered windspeeds up to 138 mph. But even the film footage there shows them going in the same direction. Where on the big lakes, you get hit by waves from 3 sides.

Here's some film of the waves on the big lakes. Even more choppy than the north Atlantic.