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Originally Posted by audessy

So I was messing around in SH4 and coming up with ideas to have a extra friendly ship or possibly commanding a task force. I set an armed merchant cruiser to have a very large range. I had it follow me to my patrol zone in South Africa.

To my surprise the cruiser actually engaged aircraft and even the aircraft attacked it instead of me! I know how useful this could be to this mod. Here is some pictures from the voyage.


Firing main guns with AA shells. 5.9 inch AA? Ouch! At closer range he uses machine guns. He also dodges. It's kind of scary how smart they made them.


A torpedo bomber getting eaten alive.


My Walter U-Boat ganging up on the poor little plane


Night fight. Merchant shining it's spotlights at the plane. A pretty sight.


Apparently the cruiser was more important than me!


He followed me from the middle of the Indian Ocean all the way to the tip of south Africa... Then a task force came and ate him. I got my revenge.

It actually wasn't that hard to do. I just met up with him and gave him the exact same waypoint as me. My only issue is that I couldn't get this working with the US campaign. Not even the scouter aircraft. The icons won't show up on the map even though the ability shows up in the "captains special abilities" area. I added all the required stuff to the UPC files. But still no go.

More info on my testing. The aircraft carriers you can control at higher ranks move about the sea randomly. You can launch scouts from them. What I'm wondering is if we can control the aircraft carrier... And launch bombers from them.

Just putting the idea out there. I know you guys have a lot on your plate already. Keep up the good work!

I can not get us to COMMAND a task force, but I have been able to get us to escort ships, and have ships escort us. By messaging the player a set course to follow if they like. This is the only way I can think of doing this. As for air cover, I have airbases appear in the ocean randomly. Darkfish figured how to make them follow your ship, but I have yet to add this. I am still waiting to download the latest version.