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Old 04-17-06, 11:19 AM   #14
Wulfmann
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There is no question we should do what is reasonable to improve accuracy but reasonable is the word. If changing the paint is a hassle the wrong color will not alter the experience and that is where the effort should be made.
Too few escorts, too many escorts, the wrong type of escorts, the efficiency of the escorts all affect the convoy attack experience and all can be adjusted.

J, BTW, I guess GW did not use your updated to 700 as I modded their RND which they said used your convoys unaltered which were all 900. They are 500 now.

I also agree it is too much trouble to redo all the ships and reset the SCR entries. This would cause major hassles if you switched a few things.

However, without adjusting any ship files or the SCR one can make simple changes to the RND convoys to make them more accurate.
Like; not having any type 1 (Corvettes) until mid 1940.
Using type 2 (Black Swan Frigates are really sloops of which there are 3 similar classes built before the war, Bittern, Grimsby and Egret all solely built to escort convoys) for early convoys in place of type 1 and 4 and adding armed trawlers.
These would make the battle more real and do not require other changes to enact.
Changing the crew ratings so the escorts are not observers is also easy enough without doing anything else.
Later when virtually all convoy escorts were type 1,2 or 3 changing the type 4 (DD) to one of the others, mostly type 3 would also make things more real.
And since I am doing this you will only have to add the file. How hard can that be?
But, this will be much more difficult so Girly Men should not install this RND. :rotfl:

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