Anyone kill a friendly? I almost did...

[Sailor Steve]

:rotfl:

Yes I can, and very eloquently. Something else I did recently was change my 'Friendly' sinking value from '-10' to '-1'. In my ship names research I've come across several cases of u-boats sinking friendly ship, and the captain being let go with a mild reprimand, because in every case the merchant was either disguised as Allied or where he wasn't supposed to be.

I've played tabletop wargames for more than thirty years now, and I've observed that 90% of all gamers just want an advantage or an excuse, and will give you all kinds of reasons why some thing or the other was 'historical'. For that reason I'm usually leary of talking about renown reduction, because it might give some an excuse to just go sink everything. On the other hand there have been many discussions about the realism of the renown system itself. Not aimed at you, but just my general experience.

Take that as you wish, and have fun putting down the Tommies.