[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You can't imagine. It lets you choose wave height, gun reload rates, randomizes your gramaphone tracks, lets you organize almost anything by date (so new things appear when they're supposed to), gives you the option of starting with a boat number that actually belongs to that flotilla at that date, gives names to the ships you sink, supplies a random database of more than a billion possible names for your crewmen, allows you to award medals and promotions at your discretion, kills or transfers crewmen at random (D'oh!), allows you to start with crewmen who are not green (they may have experience/patrols under their belts already)...and so much more. I'm sure someone will start listing things I've forgotten.

2.6 also recognise when you are at a milkcow\resupply and sets days in base to one for those occasions also has the random damage\malfunctions to simulate espionage etc