[Raven Morpheus]

Ah I see what you mean now. The problem with using those public domain images is they only cover the Japanese ships, whereas I'm compiling my RM so it covers all the ships in the game (where they have a _sil.dds) and also in due course the ships in SH V.

I'm not too bothered by rumours of Ubisofts protection of their IP, I'll give full credit to them for their artwork in a readme, and they're unlikely to come after one small guy such as myself, I'm not going to make money from it, and it's no different really to mods for example like TDW UI which can change the UI in SH V to that of SH IV - you're circulating artwork/files from the game in such a mod in the same way I'll be circulating the artwork in a printable pdf file.

I doubt it would get to the stage if they did take action that I'd end up being sued or slapped with a large payment to make.

Publish and be damned I say.

Filefont or Gamefront as it is now is well known for removing files for no real reason by the way, they even do it if files aren't accessed within a specific time frame (they deleted loads of files I had on there for that reason) so I wouldn't worry that your files were removed from Filefont, but that's why I'll be using a different hosting site.

Still need to get to the stage I can put the PDF together though, I keep thinking I'm near to doing so, then something else comes up (like adding the Length info, or now recategorising the ships to ONI style categories, which I need a little assistance on)...


EDIT: So based on Sailor Steve's description there the Victory and Liberty Cargo ships would be Composite Cargo ships. Still leaves me wondering about the Troop Transport (I'm guessing Passenger would be the best category for that?), Submarine Tender (which comes under Merchants in the in-game RM) and Armed Merchant Cruiser (which is German) though.