Hello everyone. I'm back. It's been a couple of years since I had a machine that could run SH. Well, the gods have smiled and I've got me a nice HP m6 Pavilion Notebook (I Core i5 @ 2.5GHz 8GB memory with Radeon HD 7670M - I know - its far from the latest spec - but I wanted Windows 7, not W8. Call me a Luddite upgrading from XP pro).
I have enjoyed SH I, II & III - but they are all still back in Canada, so I installed SH IV, with U-Boat upgrade. All going well, but I have some SH IV noob questions:
- I don't think any of the links to Legion's Noob Guide are still current (including at post number 15 which is supposed to be a download). If so, not much point leaving it on as a sticky.
- not much in love with the control buttons on the various stations - yellow vs slightly brighter yellow not an instantly obvious indicator as to whether the control is selected as 'active' or not. Suggestions? Mod?
- I understand the pop-up icons in top right for 'Silent'; 'Battle Stations' and 'Submerged', and, occasionally 'Warning' (that's all I've encountered so far), but I have some issues with Crew Management and, more generally, Duty Stations. Unlike previous versions where I could see 'obvious' moves, there seem some odd things. For example, when at Battle Stations; Submerged, the Deck Gun and AA remain manned! SH III didn't do that... Other than turning Battle Stations off, any way to better manage fatigue? (Transferring a 'fresh' swabbie to replace a 'zzzz'ding crew member, immediately converts the 'fresh' guy to a snoozer. WT?
- I've installed JSGME - any suggestions for 'must have' mods?
- Is Commander compatible? If so, do most use it?
Thanks all (great to see so many familiar names still active!)
