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Originally Posted by DirtyACE
I have a few questions as this area of the game has always been sort of weird for me.
1. When you talk about transfering officers, how do you do that exactly using SH3Cmdr? And what do you base it on (experience, number of patrols, medals)?
2. I have completed my first patrol and sank 140,000+ tons, including HMS Hood. Should the entire crew get the Iron Cross 2nd Class for this? What about the War Badge?
3. I've noticed that in my crew there are a few who already have more than 5 patrols (with another boat probably) but they vary in rank and experience. Should I give each of them a promotion and the War Badge? I've noticed that a couple of them already have the Iron Cross 2nd Class too.
4. When promoting, do you do it simply based on experience or are there other factors involved? Do you ever not promote crew members even though their experience may say otherwise?
Sorry for all the questions. I just want to get a good understanding of how it was done in reality and also build some structure to my own promotions and decorations.
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1. "Realistoc crew transfers" SH3 Commander option ON, or manually dismissing and recruiting crew.
2. I think all of them would get anything they'd ever want + 1 month vacation and Fuehrer's handshake.
3. It depends on how you play. If you try to be role-playing, base the awards and promotions on your opinion about each one of the crew. If you don't care, just promote anyone you can. Try not to give all possible medals (crosses, to be more exact) at once, as the system of German WWII (and previous) crosses involved slow collecting them grade by grade - ICII first, then ICI, Knight's Cross and so on. I don't remember anyone getting his Knight's Cross at once for a extraordinar achievement (but that doesn;t mean it didn't happen, I could just lack knowledge).
4. I try to base it on particular patrol achievements and on some role-playing too. Usually any member of my crew gets his ICII after his 5th patrol (if he didn't get it before for some reason) just for sailing and fighting with me. But if we did particularly good, I can award them earlier (that hasn't happened for my last two careers however). ICI after like 8-10 patrols... but that hasn't happened as well.
As to promotions, I basically promote anyone I can, as promotion is not a kind of award, it's rather kind of grading "sea-worthiness" of a crew member. The more experience he has, the higher grade he should get, I think. I might be wrong about that though, again.
