[REQ] Indispensible victims

Cohaagen · 03-07-09, 02:45 PM

Just putting the feelers out to see if there is interest in modding (and seeing modded) the major Royal Navy warships sunk by U-boats in WWII. It's amazing that we've had four years of SH3 modding without someone doing these!

Some of the most important missing units are:

HMS Ark Royal - the most famous Royal Navy carrier of the war, and one of the most notorious U-boat victims. Sunk in the Med by U-81 in November 1941.

HMS Courageous - sunk by U-29 (Kaleun Otto Schuhart) very early in the Battle of The Atlantic with the loss of over 500 men. This sinking led to the withdrawal of fleet carriers from ASW duties.

HMS Barham - the 33,000-ton Barham was sunk by U-339, commanded by Von Tiesenhausen, while on patrol in the Mediterranean. The subsequent enormous magazine detonation was captured on film in one of the most infamous pieces of footage from the war.

(Von Dos has done an excellent kit-bash of Warspite from the Revenge-class model (not quite the same as the QE-class, despite initial appearances), but the two unmodified ships - Malaya and the aforementioned Barham - as well as the massively upgraded Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, have yet to be tackled.)

I wish I had the skills to be able to scratch-build these ships (and the many missing others) myself, but I'm afraid that is not one of my talents. I do have a large number of the quite difficult-to-find original blueprints (in JPG format) for these ships though, which would be very useful to any potential modders.

So, anyone else interested? Is there a desire to see these buggers in the game?

03-07-09, 02:45 PM	#1
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	[REQ] Indispensible victims Just putting the feelers out to see if there is interest in modding (and seeing modded) the major Royal Navy warships sunk by U-boats in WWII. It's amazing that we've had four years of SH3 modding without someone doing these! Some of the most important missing units are: HMS Ark Royal - the most famous Royal Navy carrier of the war, and one of the most notorious U-boat victims. Sunk in the Med by U-81 in November 1941. HMS Courageous - sunk by U-29 (Kaleun Otto Schuhart) very early in the Battle of The Atlantic with the loss of over 500 men. This sinking led to the withdrawal of fleet carriers from ASW duties. HMS Barham - the 33,000-ton Barham was sunk by U-339, commanded by Von Tiesenhausen, while on patrol in the Mediterranean. The subsequent enormous magazine detonation was captured on film in one of the most infamous pieces of footage from the war. (Von Dos has done an excellent kit-bash of Warspite from the Revenge-class model (not quite the same as the QE-class, despite initial appearances), but the two unmodified ships - Malaya and the aforementioned Barham - as well as the massively upgraded Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, have yet to be tackled.) I wish I had the skills to be able to scratch-build these ships (and the many missing others) myself, but I'm afraid that is not one of my talents. I do have a large number of the quite difficult-to-find original blueprints (in JPG format) for these ships though, which would be very useful to any potential modders. So, anyone else interested? Is there a desire to see these buggers in the game?