What happens if you sink a resupply vessel?

[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.