By what criteria do you award medals?

[predavolk]

I give them awards based on how it will improve their performance, and how important that performance is for the ship. For example, the highest medal should go to officers, as it improves the performance of everyone else working in that compartment. Not very helpful for say, the bridge crew. Fatigue-resistant medals should go to those who get fatigued most often.

The Silent Hunter 3 Community Manual outlines the benefit of all the medals. So they go where they are needed, generally going to higher ranked individuals before lower. When all else is equal, I give it out to those individuals with the most experience.

[mcf1]

I personally reward with medals the officers first especially the WO, then the petty officers with a qualification and at the end the sailors because, I don't put all of them to work at the same time (I don't think it's possible) and so I find them "expandable"

[UnderseaLcpl]

My goal is just to get everyone on board enough medals that they can get laid by flashing them. Its the least a Kaleun can do.

[von hally]

i think medals and qualifications are quite important.

give torpedoman qualifications for a few guys in the torpedo rooms and the green bar at the top of the section will improve.
im sure this gives faster loading times etc.
ive a couple of watchman qualifications for my guys on the bridge...my green bar is at full now.

obviously a radio qualification to your sonar and radio guy greatly increases thier abilities.

machinist quals for some in the engine room...same as above.

as for medals...this gives the experience a boost i think.....as said above ...the better more qualified your officers.....then the better performance in that compartment.


but for any bilge rat....give your sonarman the first qualification after yourt first patrol....he'l greatly improve on the hydrophones

[Murr44]

Like other people who have posted I give medals to officers first. I give out whatever medals are available in game at the end of each patrol then exit the game. Using the crew management screen of SH3 Cmdr I can usually award at least one more U-Boat War badge to crewmen who qualify for the award.

[Murr44]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

My goal is just to get everyone on board enough medals that they can get laid by flashing them. Its the least a Kaleun can do.

I hope that you give them the VD lecture too. Nothing worse than a drippy spout!

[Brag]

I give out medals and promotions depending on where they will do the most good and improve fficiency.

Officers first, the POs. Eventually the swabs. That's where good tonnages pay off--more medals, more promotions.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Murr44

I hope that you give them the VD lecture too. Nothing worse than a drippy spout!

Damn! Too late.

[Uncle Goose]

In real life some medals were rarely given to ordinary crew. For instance, the Knights Cross was only awarded a few times to petty officers and for incredible bravery. To receive the Knights Cross you already had to be given the Iron Cross 1ste and 2de class and the German Cross in Gold (after 1941 of course). Even the German Cross in Gold was rare to see on anything below the rank of officer. Iron Crosses 2de class were more common as they could be awarded to an entire crew at once after a particularly successful patrol.

in many cases the captain had to write a letter of recommendation to the office of the BDU in order to get the medal. Sometimes the BDU told the captain that he may hand out a certain number of medals and that he had to decide who got them depending on his own judgment. I can imagine that this might have lead to asslicking and favoritism.

Believe it or not but I had a happening when I gave a medal to my petty officer - watchman, he disapeared from my crew, vanished, gone, DESERTED