mod idea??

Mooncatt · 03-05-07, 11:45 AM

dont think this has been raised before and not sure if it would be possible...
i was on patrol last night and the weather was awful from the north of scotland all the way down to spain.
i was wondering if it was possible to make like a map overlay on the nav map which gives predicted weather patterns from BDU updates??? did uboats have this luxury?? or would this be un realistic and not possible to do anyway with the weather effects being hard coded into the game also with weather being set as "random" in the cfg file.

Kpt. Kozloff · 03-05-07, 11:48 AM

Good point. Weather forecasts would be very helpful indeed.

Sailor Steve · 03-05-07, 11:49 AM

I don't think it can be done in the game, but in fact World War Two was the exact time that people were putting weather prediction into practice. Everybody, Allies, Axis, everybody was having ships and planes tell what the weather was where they were and trying to predict which way it was going. It was a long way from perfect, but they were doing it.

bigboywooly · 03-05-07, 11:49 AM

Not sure the idea is workable

Uboats did indeed have weather info
Uboats on patrol would radio in the weather
The Germans even planted a group of men on Greenland for weather reports

Captured by the USCG months before the US entered the war

http://www.uscg.mil/history/Northland.html

Sailor Steve · 03-05-07, 11:53 AM

I just remembered I read somewhere (always a valid reference:rotfl: ) that sometimes u-boats who ran out of torpedoes early were ordered to stay on station and report ships and weather for other boats until fuel required a return to port.

It wasn't in the last two books I read, so I could just be misremembering. Or hallucinating.

bigboywooly · 03-05-07, 11:56 AM

No you are correct as ever Steve
I have seen it in the BDU KTB

ReallyDedPoet · 03-05-07, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just remembered I read somewhere (always a valid reference:rotfl: ) that sometimes u-boats who ran out of torpedoes early were ordered to stay on station and report ships and weather for other boats until fuel required a return to port.

Interesting stuff regarding the weather. It was hell for all sides wasn't it.

AVGWarhawk · 03-05-07, 12:08 PM

Yes, there were German weather ships in the North Atlantic. I believe an engima machine was gotten from one of ths weather ships.

Kpt. Kozloff · 03-05-07, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Yes, there were German weather ships in the North Atlantic. I believe an engima machine was gotten from one of ths weather ships.

Yeah, Munchen and Lauenburg were amongst them.
http://www.avoca.ndirect.co.uk/enigma/enigma11.htm

Mush Martin · 03-05-07, 12:37 PM

I think that weather only exists in the sim within a reasonable distance of
the sub. its seems more controlled by time than geography?

03-05-07, 11:45 AM	#1
Mooncatt Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Keighley UK Posts: 938 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	mod idea?? dont think this has been raised before and not sure if it would be possible... i was on patrol last night and the weather was awful from the north of scotland all the way down to spain. i was wondering if it was possible to make like a map overlay on the nav map which gives predicted weather patterns from BDU updates??? did uboats have this luxury?? or would this be un realistic and not possible to do anyway with the weather effects being hard coded into the game also with weather being set as "random" in the cfg file. __________________

03-05-07, 11:48 AM	#2
Kpt. Kozloff Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Jersey - Channel Islands, UK Posts: 305 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Good point. Weather forecasts would be very helpful indeed. __________________ GWX1.03/Cmdr2.7/plus all sorts of tweaks

03-05-07, 11:49 AM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I don't think it can be done in the game, but in fact World War Two was the exact time that people were putting weather prediction into practice. Everybody, Allies, Axis, everybody was having ships and planes tell what the weather was where they were and trying to predict which way it was going. It was a long way from perfect, but they were doing it. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-05-07, 11:49 AM	#4
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Not sure the idea is workable Uboats did indeed have weather info Uboats on patrol would radio in the weather The Germans even planted a group of men on Greenland for weather reports Captured by the USCG months before the US entered the war http://www.uscg.mil/history/Northland.html __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

03-05-07, 11:53 AM	#5
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I just remembered I read somewhere (always a valid reference:rotfl: ) that sometimes u-boats who ran out of torpedoes early were ordered to stay on station and report ships and weather for other boats until fuel required a return to port. It wasn't in the last two books I read, so I could just be misremembering. Or hallucinating. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-05-07, 11:56 AM	#6
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	No you are correct as ever Steve I have seen it in the BDU KTB __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

03-05-07, 12:08 PM	#8
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,256 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Yes, there were German weather ships in the North Atlantic. I believe an engima machine was gotten from one of ths weather ships. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-05-07, 12:37 PM	#10
Mush Martin Eternal Patrol Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,398 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	I think that weather only exists in the sim within a reasonable distance of the sub. its seems more controlled by time than geography? __________________ RIP Mush Tutorial

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