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Originally Posted by kapitanfred
By the way SH3Commander selects the crew, I believe it presumes you are a KptLt so the program will select an officer with a rank higher then what you are. I just demote the officer below my own rank and disallow the move to another boat. I use v2.6 though
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Not that I am criticising your approach (frankly it's of no concern to me), but let me explain why the SH3Cmdr "Realistic" crew list is composed the way it is...
In WWII there were two general streams of U-boat officers - "Line" and "Engineering" (and "Medical" in the later years). In some instances the LI (Engineering stream) would actually outrank the Commander (Line stream) either in seniority
or rank (look at U-516 for example, at one stage near the end of the war the Commander was an ObLt whilst the LI was a highly decorated KptLt). And it certainly occurred where a newly promoted ObLt U-boat Commander (such as all of us every time we start a "new" career) would be "outranked" by the existing ObLt LI.
Of course though, I wouldn't be happy if another
Line officer was of
higher or more
senior rank than me because that would never have happened. Indeed, from a look at U-boat crew lists, in
most instances the next senior Line officer was one rank below the Commander.
The SH3Cmdr "Realistic" crew list replicates the above by providing an ObLt LI, but limits the rank of all other officers to no higher than the player's starting rank of Lt (which becomes ObLt after the first patrol anyway, if you are running RUb or any derivative mod).
I should also point out that if something happened to the Commander at sea, it would be the next highest
Line officer (ie the IWO/Exec) that would take over command, even if the LI was higher ranked (there are *many* instances where the Commander was an ObLt, the LI was an ObLt and the Exec was an Lt).
Of course, if this appraoch doesn't suit you, simply select the "Already in SH3" crew when you start a new career and SH3Cmdr will use whatever crew is already in the game (and it has no control over this crew - so if it is RUb based, you'll end up with the same or similar makeup anyway!).
Apart from the above, the only other way a crewman will get a higher rank than you is if *you* promote him or "buy" him yourself!
