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Originally Posted by Nausal
Sounds cool are newbies welcome as well ? ( not totaly a newbie but havent played in like a year and forgot the most) and do you play with full realism on ? and soo
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Of course newbies are most welcome!
With "Full realism" you actually can choose depending on your own experience.
Itīs not a "Tonnage-chase" but an immersion game (not played online).
This makes it easier also for the ones for example not used to manual targeting.
You can have Auto targeting "on" but we encourage trying full manual. Part from that, most boxes should be ticked as batt recharging, repair times, fuel consumption etc etc etc.....
OLC:s Ubermod is popular among some as is the normal man-targeting for NYGM + GWX.
With "realism" we also include the way orders are given, upgrade status, torpedo loadout and the life at the flottillien.
Tactics and procedures are also given via the flottillien. Examples for this are:
-Tactics for aircraft attacks, as running decks awash in infested areas or avoiding gun duels with A/C.
-Under which conditions to remove externals
-Conditions reloading of torpedos => heavy weather means loading at greater depth than PD.
-Which types of ships to target. => No shooting gallery for DD:s and other escorts unless ordered to do so. Merchants are the important ones for the war effort.
-Not attacking harbours unless ordered.
Since we are not that many playing we only have 4 operational (1:st in Brest, 7:th St. Nazaire, 2:nd Lorient and 29:th La Spezia) BUT are expanding with the 11:th in Bergen + a short lived one with 30:th in Constanza.
We also have the 15:th Schnellbootflottillie for the ones eager to sail above the surface
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No "stock" gamers are allowed. Only GWX/NYGM or any other "supermod". The orders are written based upon how these mods script the situation so
Stock wonīt work.
Patrol are given a timespan in real life. Normally around 3 weeks to finish (6 for the long range flottillien) and there are communications boards at each flottillie managed by the Flottillienchef and his XO.
This makes us non-dependent of time zones over the globe and also allow the players to choose for themselves when to play. Real-life matters becoming a tad easier this way compared to
online-gaming.
Orders are written by the Flottillienchef and posted at a certain date. These contain assigned patrol zones, torpedo loadout, replenishment restrictions, communication scedules and avaliable upgrades + intelligence and new tactics/doctrines if any.
Sometimes we have used specially written JSGME compatible campaign-addon files as the "Python" resupply ship during operation "Kapstadt" (later included in GWX2.1) and the U-459 Milchkuh operating close to bermuda during the early phses of oper "Paukenschlag" before it moved to the S Atlantic as scripted in GWX and NYGM.
You keep a "Soldbuch" in a special database showing all you need as Name, Birthdate, where born, Awards, number of patrols, career history, tonnage, rank + what uboot and how its equpped, commissoned etc etc.
You also use this database for posting KTB:s. In here you can report Ship type, ship name, where sunk, tonnage + adding any comments as if being sunk
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We play "DiD" =>
Dead is Dead . If buying the farm you are gone and not supposed to restart from the latest save! We have an honour system here. The boat/kaleun will end up honoured on the "wall of fame"
On the other hand, if sunk you just create a new "persona" in the "Radio room" and are given a new boat + flottillie assignment. Easy! This way we hope to keep the losses at a realistic rate.
After each patrol, the flottillienchefs will evaluate your results and Promote/award you according to this. We have a clear system for managing this.
There is also a "hearing/court marshal" phenomena that we role-play from time to time. => FUN!
And Gruber (an old WaW-veteran), thanks for the kind words. Sorry about that hand but I assume you will recover completely and of course always welcome back.
So! Go to the link and register at the database (drupal site) This you make only once. Confirmation on acceptance on that site can take some time but that wont stop you from going to the "radio room" (=forum) and make a second registration to get in there as well and we will help you there getting all set up.
Welcome!!!
Bertler
Fgkpt.z.S / BdU-Staff