Historical commanders' tonnage totals

jonny_bass26 · 07-16-19, 05:03 AM

Greetings all,
Does anybody know how to alter the tonnage totals allotted to the historical (ie real-life) sub commanders? I ask because Otto Kretschmer (to take one example) is listed as sinking 256k tons, whereas most sources these days credit him with 273k tons. I think there are a few other errors along similar lines. Not vitally important, I know, but still...it bugs me. So if anybody knows how to change this, I'd very much appreciate your advice :-)

propbeanie · 07-16-19, 08:06 AM

Ahhh, but remember jonny_bass26, you are living in the 1940s (generally) in the game, and the sources are not so reliable just yet...

... but in the Data / Cfg folder is UboatAces.cfg with those stats...

jonny_bass26 · 07-16-19, 10:35 AM

Ah of course haha...for some reason I hadn't considered the usage of contemporary figures (even though they do the same thing in SH4 which I was well aware of). Still gonna change it though! Thanks for the help :-)

propbeanie · 07-16-19, 01:05 PM

You are welcome, but yeah, they didn't have Google and Wikipedia back then, computers used vacuum tubes and electro-mechanical relays, along with punch cards, and Clay Blair hadn't finished his research yet...

SH4 definitely used the edited JANAC reports...

07-16-19, 05:03 AM	#1
jonny_bass26 Sailor man Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 48 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Historical commanders' tonnage totals Greetings all, Does anybody know how to alter the tonnage totals allotted to the historical (ie real-life) sub commanders? I ask because Otto Kretschmer (to take one example) is listed as sinking 256k tons, whereas most sources these days credit him with 273k tons. I think there are a few other errors along similar lines. Not vitally important, I know, but still...it bugs me. So if anybody knows how to change this, I'd very much appreciate your advice :-)

07-16-19, 08:06 AM	#2
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	Ahhh, but remember jonny_bass26, you are living in the 1940s (generally) in the game, and the sources are not so reliable just yet... ... but in the Data / Cfg folder is UboatAces.cfg with those stats... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

07-16-19, 01:05 PM	#4
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	You are welcome, but yeah, they didn't have Google and Wikipedia back then, computers used vacuum tubes and electro-mechanical relays, along with punch cards, and Clay Blair hadn't finished his research yet... SH4 definitely used the edited JANAC reports... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

07-16-19, 10:35 AM	#3
jonny_bass26 Sailor man Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 48 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Ah of course haha...for some reason I hadn't considered the usage of contemporary figures (even though they do the same thing in SH4 which I was well aware of). Still gonna change it though! Thanks for the help :-)