Auxiliary Cruiser mod

[Cybermat47]

Just a small mod that gives the German Auxiliary cruisers in the game 6-inch guns.

DEVOLOPERS:
Cybermat47: Development and publishing.
V13dweller: Bug fixer.

Download link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3751

CHANGELOG:
v.0.0.01: First release
v.1.0.00: Fixes a bug.

[GT182]

Gun envy.

Looking forward to it Mat. Tho I've never seen a German Auxiliary cruiser ingame to notice the the difference. Tho I have seen the Brits sporting them in the Atlantic Air Gap mission.

Tell me, is there a way to have German surface ships [Q ships I think they were called] occasionally attacking with us when we go after a convoy? Or even attacking a single merchant on their own in the campaigns. You never know when they might need a bit of help. Sure would be a cool mod.

[Cybermat47]

Hmmm... I'm not sure about attacking convoys, but I might be able to edit the traffic a bit so that the cruisers go out into the Indian ocean... and, of course, destroying anything they find while en route.

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Originally Posted by GT182

Gun envy.

Looking forward to it Mat. Tho I've never seen a German Auxiliary cruiser ingame to notice the the difference. Tho I have seen the Brits sporting them in the Atlantic Air Gap mission.

Tell me, is there a way to have German surface ships [Q ships I think they were called] occasionally attacking with us when we go after a convoy? Or even attacking a single merchant on their own in the campaigns. You never know when they might need a bit of help. Sure would be a cool mod.

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Hmmm... I'm not sure about attacking convoys, but I might be able to edit the traffic a bit so that the cruisers go out into the Indian ocean... and, of course, destroying anything they find while en route.

GT182 is right.

Increasing the frequency of those units in generic traffic, as suggested by Cybermat, is a valid method, that should be used with caution though: after all Germany had only 9 auxiliary cruisers, they were mostly active in the far waters of South Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean, and most of them were sunk before '43.

Besides that, I have got a couple of extra ideas for putting them to use in game:

1. From late 40 to late 41, Kormoran, Atlantis and Pinguin, were sporadically used for refitting U-boats in South Atlantic. I will post the details in OHII thread.

2. After reading several patrol reports, I've noticed that escorting auxiliary cruisers or supply vessels both in North and South Atlantic was rather a common task for U-boats. Afaik neither the stock campaign nor OHII do feature similar missions. If there's any interest by Trevally on adding them to the campaign, I will be glad to collect some details on common escort routes.

Hi All!
I hope that in the future will be able to fire cannons HMS Bismarck or HMS Hood! In SH4 was a mod Bismarck and I fired at the convoy! It would be great! This is just a dream.....
Thank you All for your work!

[GT182]

So the small Auxilliary ships can be used more as actual fighting ships and resupply too. That's great Gap.

Last night in the Atlantic Air Gap patrol area I did see a contact for a German ship out in the middle of the Atlantic. I didn't investigate but I now know I should have, just to see what it was.

[Cybermat47]

v.1.0.00 is up! Thanks V13dweller!

[V13dweller]

Your very welcome.

[V13dweller]

There are some comments on the previous pages that discuss people never actually seeing the Auxiliary cruisers, but from my experience they are often seen escorting German or Italian (?) convoys, even in the Mediterranean but this is probably a bug. (Not the mods fault)

But this mod, nevertheless increases the effectiveness of German convoy escorts no matter where they be.

I have tested them in ME2 and when it comes to attacking early convoys, they perform very well against early convoys and even some later armed merchants.