[akdavis]

Originally Posted by treblesum81

You make a good point there... not that I'm any sort of modding authority anyway, though...

Although I'd like to point out that there are quite a few user created ai warships already available, meaning that if a few of those modders could be recruited to work on them, the new surface fleet would come together relatively quickly. I think its also important to point out that, other than the US, Russia, and a handful of other countries, a great deal of the population of the navies of the world were constantly refitted WWII ships (the last time a sub fired a torp in anger was in the Faulklands and it was at a WWII BB)... In addition, modern ships are not so visually complex as their WWII counterparts, lacking the multitude of guns and tower structures in favor of missiles and a smaller radar signature...

In any case, I think that the more modern stuff (i.e. 1960-end) will probably be the more popular, if only because of the mystique around the modern subs. Whichever way things pan out though, I think at the very least that a move needs to be made away from the older surface running boats (while later diesel boats still had to surface, they could run at speed for ~12hr) so that the mod could open up the world of strictly or at least primarily underwater ops, something that only the Type-XXI has only been able to accomplish so far.

Well, if the focus is on the Cold War between Nato and USSR, then the equipment of minor players like Argentina or Turkey will hardly figure large in the gameplay. There would be very little that could be recycled 30 years or more after the war.