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[Safe-Keeper]

For those of you intrigued by this series of screen-shots, here are some real news!

-official trailer*

Originally Posted by Announcement Excerpt

[Bold-faced characters are links]

Norwegian Operations is an expansion pack for Grey Wolves that will add cities, land installations, vessels, planes, battles, and partisan operations to Silent Hunter III, expanding the Norwegian theatre of the game significantly. You will, among other things, experience the sinking of the Heavy Cruiser Blücher , protect the German landings at Narvik, and patrol the North Sea for Shetland Bus ships trying to sneak partisans in and out of Norway.

The video and above excerpt contain only a few of the intended features of the mod. I've done some testing of various battles and seen them turn out satisfactory (although the scaled-down fjords are too cramped in some cases for my liking), and I'll start working on it for real when the Grey Wolves Expansion comes out.

The expansion will primarily focus on the dynamic campaign (the scripted, random, and land layers), but as the blog will tell you, I also wish to round up some modellers to add certain vehicles and eye-candy to the mod.

The best-case scenario is that it will, when finished, contain all major operations in Norway, lots of minor skirmishes and encounters, several new single-player missions, a pack of new vehicles, land units, and eye-candy, and fixes for some of the terrain inconsistencies in Silent Hunter III's representation of Norway. I've led a mod team myself before (Battle of Hoth ShipSet for X-Wing Alliance) and also been a member of a very promising-but-sadly-failed total conversion for Battlefield 2 called Warp, so I know these things can go either way. Let's hope this one gets lucky!

Full project announcement and blog here.

Safe-Keeper
*Curiously the movie seems to come and go. It's there one minute and "maybe still processing" the next. Keep trying and you should get it eventually.

[GT182]

by Safe-Keeper
The expansion will primarily focus on the dynamic campaign

This sounds very promising. A dynamic campaign is something needed for SHIII.... maybe the vGerman subs can win for once depending on how well they do.

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

For those of you intrigued by this series of screen-shots, here are some real news!

-official trailer*

The video and above excerpt contain only a few of the intended features of the mod. I've done some testing of various battles and seen them turn out satisfactory (although the scaled-down fjords are too cramped in some cases for my liking), and I'll start working on it for real when the Grey Wolves Expansion comes out.

The expansion will primarily focus on the dynamic campaign (the scripted, random, and land layers), but as the blog will tell you, I also wish to round up some modellers to add certain vehicles and eye-candy to the mod.

The best-case scenario is that it will, when finished, contain all major operations in Norway, lots of minor skirmishes and encounters, several new single-player missions, a pack of new vehicles, land units, and eye-candy, and fixes for some of the terrain inconsistencies in Silent Hunter III's representation of Norway. I've led a mod team myself before (Battle of Hoth ShipSet for X-Wing Alliance) and also been a member of a very promising-but-sadly-failed total conversion for Battlefield 2 called Warp, so I know these things can go either way. Let's hope this one gets lucky!

Full project announcement and blog here.

Safe-Keeper
*Curiously the movie seems to come and go. It's there one minute and "maybe still processing" the next. Keep trying and you should get it eventually.

Please contact me regarding the upload asap. Thx!

[_Seth_]

@ Safe-Keeper: Kongebra! Inkluderer dette Tirpitz's senkning utenfor Tromsø, og Scharnhorst utenfor Nordkapp?

I Want the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst battles !!

BTW: Looks excellent!!

[Safe-Keeper]

This sounds very promising. A dynamic campaign is something needed for SHIII.... maybe the vGerman subs can win for once depending on how well they do.

Not that dynamic. I just mean the dynamic campaign we have already. Sorry to say so.

@ Safe-Keeper: [Awesome! Does this include Tirpitz's sinking outside Tromsø, and Scharnhorst off of Nordkapp]

I'll include as many battles as I can. Blücher's sinking, as the screenshots in the "Poor ole Blücher"-thread tells you, is already in.

Blücher and her task force, Kampfgruppe 5, correctly leaves Kiel at 2 o' clock in the morning on the 8th of April and sails for Oslo. Blücher engages Oscarsborg fortress and is sunk, and the rest of the task force retreats. I'll try to have the pocket battleship (?) of the force engage the fortress briefly before retreating - without getting herself sunk.