[moscowexile]

I was wondering if the sudden hostile action between two escorts was linked to the programming of the vanilla game, and now, from what I have read above, that seems to be the case: as I wrote earlier, I first noticed this happening in the training school when I played vanilla SH3 long before GWX appeared on the scene. That's how this sudden outbreak of internicine warfare must come about: the trawler usually spots my scope and starts ripping off small calibre fire at it, prangs the DD and war is declared between the escorts. This has happened so often in my experience, that I've wondered whether the trawler is manned by drafted Highlander Jocks who have found the whisky store and, in their cups, have suddenly mutated into 20th century Jacobites.

The speedy reaction to that which is judged as enemy action by GWX first became apparent to me when outward bound for the first time from Königsberg on August 1st 1939: I had been having some problems with my mods and, as I was leaving my dock, I noticed that my water stream was not functioning. I decided to quit the game in order to fix the mod, but before doing so, and out of sheer mischief, I slotted a torpedo into my escort's stern. Down went my dutiful escort, but at the moment of torpedo impact the whole city suddenly lit up as I got hammered left, right and centre by shore based and seaborne artillery, which barrage resulted in my going down in record time.