[WIP] Cold War Mod

[akdavis]

hehe, just a little polling wisdom: never make "cake and eat it too" a choice. It will skew your results.

One argument in favor of early rather than late: remember that in addition to new submarines, you would need an almost completely new roster of surface ships for late Cold War, even all new merchants.

[treblesum81]

One argument in favor of early rather than late: remember that in addition to new submarines, you would need an almost completely new roster of surface ships for late Cold War, even all new merchants.

You make a good point there... not that I'm any sort of modding authority anyway, though...

Although I'd like to point out that there are quite a few user created ai warships already available, meaning that if a few of those modders could be recruited to work on them, the new surface fleet would come together relatively quickly. I think its also important to point out that, other than the US, Russia, and a handful of other countries, a great deal of the population of the navies of the world were constantly refitted WWII ships (the last time a sub fired a torp in anger was in the Faulklands and it was at a WWII BB)... In addition, modern ships are not so visually complex as their WWII counterparts, lacking the multitude of guns and tower structures in favor of missiles and a smaller radar signature...

In any case, I think that the more modern stuff (i.e. 1960-end) will probably be the more popular, if only because of the mystique around the modern subs. Whichever way things pan out though, I think at the very least that a move needs to be made away from the older surface running boats (while later diesel boats still had to surface, they could run at speed for ~12hr) so that the mod could open up the world of strictly or at least primarily underwater ops, something that only the Type-XXI has only been able to accomplish so far.

[akdavis]

Originally Posted by treblesum81

You make a good point there... not that I'm any sort of modding authority anyway, though...

Although I'd like to point out that there are quite a few user created ai warships already available, meaning that if a few of those modders could be recruited to work on them, the new surface fleet would come together relatively quickly. I think its also important to point out that, other than the US, Russia, and a handful of other countries, a great deal of the population of the navies of the world were constantly refitted WWII ships (the last time a sub fired a torp in anger was in the Faulklands and it was at a WWII BB)... In addition, modern ships are not so visually complex as their WWII counterparts, lacking the multitude of guns and tower structures in favor of missiles and a smaller radar signature...

In any case, I think that the more modern stuff (i.e. 1960-end) will probably be the more popular, if only because of the mystique around the modern subs. Whichever way things pan out though, I think at the very least that a move needs to be made away from the older surface running boats (while later diesel boats still had to surface, they could run at speed for ~12hr) so that the mod could open up the world of strictly or at least primarily underwater ops, something that only the Type-XXI has only been able to accomplish so far.

Well, if the focus is on the Cold War between Nato and USSR, then the equipment of minor players like Argentina or Turkey will hardly figure large in the gameplay. There would be very little that could be recycled 30 years or more after the war.

[treblesum81]

This is true, but the point is that SH4 has provisions for "filler" vessels (non-war ships in the environment), so that just means updating those, if it was even a consideration, would really be a non-issue...

[bohemian007]

Does 688i can play in American career?

I have U-Boat expansion (V1.5)

Thank you.

[denis_469]

Originally Posted by bohemian007

Does 688i can play in American career?

I have U-Boat expansion (V1.5)

Thank you.

U/l version nuclear subs for version 1.4 only. Versions for 1.5 and more subs WIP now.