SH3 GWX 3 DIY Ship Recognition Guide

[nataraj]

Download Section: latest versions
Merchants 1940 (Dec. 17, 2013, 4.5 MB)
Warships 1939 (Dec. 18, 2013, 3.1 MB)
Warships 1940 (Dec. 18, 2013, 4.3 MB)

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Being new to Silent Hunter one of the more difficult parts of "life" seems to be how to identify ships. Once the ships are close enough, there is little time to flip through the book - and without any chance to compare similar ships side by side, I was completely lost. Unfortunately, all the printable recognition manuals that exist seem to be either on dead links or they are written for previous versions. Some ship types (like C2 Cargo) don't exist in my game, sometimes renown values are given that I don't think are correct any more (500+ for Large Merchant is 300 in my version)

I am using SH3, GWX 3.0 "Gold", TMT (GWX3 version)

So I started a small project to collect
- pages from the in-game recognition manual (the ...sil.tga files)
- screenshots from the Museum
- tonnage, speed and renown info from the .cfg files
- "Sea" subdirectory names for the various ship types (EnglishNames.cfg plus guesswork)

So far, I've reached December 1939 in my fledgling career, therefore the manual contains ships from 1939 (and earlier) only. Also, I've only looked at the British section in the Museum, so Polish and Indian or South African ships are missing.

This "Do It Yourself" manual comes in two .pdf files (3 and 4.5 MB, reps.):

Warships (V2 now with height,length and Greek battleship )
Merchants (also with length etc.)

As soon as I go on my next patrol, I'll add the 1940 ships. "Be prepared ..."

I hope this will be useful for the other Leutnants/Oberleutnants here


Regards,
Helmut

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