What happens if you sink a resupply vessel?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

if you have the "Large Tanker" populate the list with 500 large tankers with unique names like "SS Eastern Star" or "SS Laguna" etc etc. when the ship is sunk, it is removed from the roster file never to spawn again.

That's exactly the way Commander's 'Ship Names' function works. If you sink a merchant and are given a name, that name won't show up again unless you manage to depopulate that entire type. Then it resets, because if it didn't you wouldn't get any more names.

The reason the major warships repopulate every time is because if, as you say, someone plays arcade style and sinks a battleship every week, there won't be any British battleships left by the start of 1941.

It is my understanding that SH5 is supposed to do just that. If you sink the Hood it will be replaced by a different ship for the Bismarck hunt.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It is my understanding that SH5 is supposed to do just that. If you sink the Hood it will be replaced by a different ship for the Bismarck hunt.

I didnt know that.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That's exactly the way Commander's 'Ship Names' function works. If you sink a merchant and are given a name, that name won't show up again unless you manage to depopulate that entire type. Then it resets, because if it didn't you wouldn't get any more names.

The reason the major warships repopulate every time is because if, as you say, someone plays arcade style and sinks a battleship every week, there won't be any British battleships left by the start of 1941.

It is my understanding that SH5 is supposed to do just that. If you sink the Hood it will be replaced by a different ship for the Bismarck hunt.

The SHC ships names/info I think is the coolest addition to the program in a long time. Always interesting to see the names, their cargo and lives lost (though on tankers carrying explosives or ammo ships I've always wondered why the fatality rate isn't at least 80% or more).

While it seems paradoxical its always been clear as to why you can sink the same ship multiple times in a patrol, due to them needing to be in specific task forces at certain dates. If you get lucky you get 2 shots at them. Though (in an older version of GWX) I did run into a massive task force in the med led by the Prince of Wales, with 2 King George V's trailing behind it (and too many escorts to even try and count).

Do you know if SH5 follows historical patterns in the same manner (or close to) GWX does with ships being in their proper locations and specific points in time? From my understanding with SH5 being somewhat dynamic (and keeping track of the warships you sink) might you be able to throw a massive monkey wrench into the works and sink the King George V when it travels to the US with Churchill aboard when he goes to speak with Roosevelt? Knowing beforehand when that travel takes place and lie in wait (likely for several days) in order to take out one very key person? While that wouldn't end the war, it would throw England into Chaos for awhile.

[GoldenRivet]

GWX has a number of historic elements within its campaign layer.

there are some high speed trips between England and the UK supposedly carrying churchill to visit with the POTUS

there is the battle between hood and bismark, as well as bismark's final battle and sinking.

there is D-day (which i recommend avoiding it like the plague... you WILL die 100% of the time)

I think even the Nevada Class American BB stands in for the USS Texas a couple of times in a couple of places.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

GWX has a number of historic elements within its campaign layer.

there are some high speed trips between England and the UK supposedly carrying churchill to visit with the POTUS

there is the battle between hood and bismark, as well as bismark's final battle and sinking.

there is D-day (which i recommend avoiding it like the plague... you WILL die 100% of the time)

I think even the Nevada Class American BB stands in for the USS Texas a couple of times in a couple of places.

GWX pretty much has all campaign elements that went on during the course of the war. Besides that large/high profile ones like Narvik or the Bismark all the major/special task forces that were sent at various time to various places have always been correctly places. Few times I've caught a few task forces going through Gibraltor while they were on special supply missions to North Africa, only times I've managed to sink any flat tops.

Something as specific as Churchill's trip to the US I would imagine is in GWX, Ubisoft not being as dilligent I wondered if they knew/bothered to put that critical voyage in there. Least as I understand it, with SH5 you can alter the course of history such that events don't unfold as they did historically (something SH3 is incapable of doing).

In that sense you're playing armchair quarterback as long as you've got a good history book next to you. Since we know how the battle for the Bismark happened (if SH5 acts like I think it does, or is supposed to) if you hunted down all the carriers and as many capital ships as possible (hypothetically, to actually achieve these goals would be extremely difficult) the British wouldn't have any carriers available and only a few capital ships to combat the Bismark. W/O the carriers and at least half or more of the capital ships sunk or too damaged to sorte I would imagine that the Bismark would have had a very good chance at surviving or avoiding the battle completely. Is SH5 smart enough to realize this? Until Ubisoft changes their DRM away from the idiotic method they have now I refuse to buy it despite some of the good things I've heard about it; personally I've got no quarrel with Ubisoft and would gladly support them and purchase the product if they had down to earth requirements.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Something as specific as Churchill's trip to the US I would imagine is in GWX,

It sure is