[Beery]

It sounds like you've installed other mods, because as far as I know (and I made almost all the mods that went into SH3 Commander, and I know what's in all those I didn't make) SH3 Commander can't make you an ensign. The patrol shenanigans you experienced can't be caused by SH3 Commander. I didn't even know the message for ramming was in the game (maybe it's in the English language version). Losing lots of medals could happen if you had chosen the auto-fix button for medals for all your crew, but it's a lot of work, and you'd definitely know you were doing it. SH3 Commander will allow you to give any medal, so this can at least be fixed, but since you lost ALL your medals, again, it can't be SH3 Commander causing this.

As for the nav map and ruler being in a weird place, again, can't be SH3 Commander-related unless it's caused by a severe misreading (or ignoring of) of SH3 Commander's Help file. SH3 Commander does absolutely nothing with the nav tools.

If you're blaming SH3 Commander for all this, you're blaming the wrong program. What other mods have you installed recently?

Note: the only highlighted notes in the SH3 Commander Help file are these:

IMPORTANT!!! In order to avoid any potential file integrity problems, ALWAYS perform a rollback in SH3 Commander BEFORE:
- enabling or disabling any mods, either via JSGME or manually;
- uninstalling or reinstalling Silent Hunter III;
- uninstalling SH3 Commander.

Untold weirdness can result from ignoring these rules.

Apart from that, I think we need JScones to weigh in on this one. He's much more attuned to what strange instabilities have been attributed to SH3 Commander, and he may know exactly what has gone wrong in this case.

If you're using SH3 Commander as the Help file says, it's absolutely 100% impossible for SH3 Commander to screw up your game.