A couple year corrections for your basic.cfg

Ducimus · 05-15-06, 06:53 PM

Lately ive been reading Han's Gruebers, "Steel boats, Iron hearts" and if his book is to be considered a reliable source then:

The IX/3 conning tower didnt come about tell 1943, (not 1942):
While i already sort of "knew" this, Han's memior only correlates to other information ive read. If you want to guess at a month, read through the uboatarcheive.net's interrigation reports. (intrestnigly U505's tower would seem to be an IX/1 towr in 1942 since it had a 3.7 cm gun attached. Presumably the earlier model flak gun)

Heavy flak.
According to Hans, his boat was first equiped in 1943 (whilst in dock for major repairs) wtih the 2 CM 4-barreled heavy flak gun. Upon returning to port early due to sabatoge, his boat was then equiped with one of the "newer" (his word) 3.7 single barreled automatic flak gun. Which was on U505 until she was captured. That means the double barrled 3.7 cm didnt come tell much later. So the chronology is really

1.) 2 cm heavy flak
2. )3.7cm single
3.)3.7cm double

Another intresting note, he says it took them 7 days to install a RWR. (Metox or borkum i forget which)

I mention all of this because while looking over some other mods basic.cfg to see what date entries they were using, much to my amazement some of them seemed to be stock. (Ie IX/3 tower in 42.)

If anyone really wants, i can try to cite the passage this info comes from. Finding out what month it is, is kind of hard, as the only clue as to the month he's currently in, is like 5-10 pages back.

. But even then, just because U505 got something in one particular month, doesnt mean thats when it was first avialable.

05-15-06, 06:53 PM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	A couple year corrections for your basic.cfg Lately ive been reading Han's Gruebers, "Steel boats, Iron hearts" and if his book is to be considered a reliable source then: The IX/3 conning tower didnt come about tell 1943, (not 1942): While i already sort of "knew" this, Han's memior only correlates to other information ive read. If you want to guess at a month, read through the uboatarcheive.net's interrigation reports. (intrestnigly U505's tower would seem to be an IX/1 towr in 1942 since it had a 3.7 cm gun attached. Presumably the earlier model flak gun) Heavy flak. According to Hans, his boat was first equiped in 1943 (whilst in dock for major repairs) wtih the 2 CM 4-barreled heavy flak gun. Upon returning to port early due to sabatoge, his boat was then equiped with one of the "newer" (his word) 3.7 single barreled automatic flak gun. Which was on U505 until she was captured. That means the double barrled 3.7 cm didnt come tell much later. So the chronology is really 1.) 2 cm heavy flak 2. )3.7cm single 3.)3.7cm double Another intresting note, he says it took them 7 days to install a RWR. (Metox or borkum i forget which) I mention all of this because while looking over some other mods basic.cfg to see what date entries they were using, much to my amazement some of them seemed to be stock. (Ie IX/3 tower in 42.) If anyone really wants, i can try to cite the passage this info comes from. Finding out what month it is, is kind of hard, as the only clue as to the month he's currently in, is like 5-10 pages back. . But even then, just because U505 got something in one particular month, doesnt mean thats when it was first avialable.