[WIP] Wolves of the Kaiser:1914-1918 Mod

[avers]

hey IABL, glad to see the progress on the U boats. I want to here some updates on the way Prize regulations will work, any updates on that?

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

IABL finally I found the "number" of all u-boats of the Med. Flottilla:
START DATES: U-BOATS:
1915:
June: UC-12/UC-13/UC-14/UC-15/UB-14
August: U-34/U-35
Sep: U-39
1916:
March: UB-42/UB-44/UB-45/UB-46/U-73
October:U-71/UC-20/UC-22/UC-23/UC-35
November/december: U-47/U-32/U-63/U-64/U-65
1917:
Jan: UC-34/UC-37
Feb: UC-24
March: UC-67
April: UC-25/UC-27
July: UC-73/UC-53/UC-52/UC-54
Sep: UB-48/UB-50/UB-51
Dec :UB-52/UB-53
Dec: UB-66/UC-38
1918:
Jan: UB-68
March: UC-74
April-May: UB-105
Sep: UB-128/UB-129
PS: I am preparing a new rar archive with the paintings of Claus Bergen and others.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by avers

hey IABL, glad to see the progress on the U boats. I want to here some updates on the way Prize regulations will work, any updates on that?

Here's my plan on how they will be implemented:

Merchant ships will no longer be assigned to individual nations, for the most part. There will be four merchant nationalities:

Merchant Nation: Contraband-Neutral (Base Renown Value 1)

Merchant Nation: Contraband-Hostile (Base Renown Value 1)

Merchant Nation: Non Contraband (Base Renown Value -1)

Merchant Nation: Friendly (Base Renown Value -5)

I can display any type of flag on a particular ship, so correct flag display is no longer an issue. This means that some ships under the Swedish flag, for example, will trade with Britain, while other Swedish ships will trade with Germany - just like it was during WWI. Also, some ships under the British/French/Russian flag cannot be sunk (if they are not carrying contraband or headed to hostile ports). Again, that was consistent with the prize rules.

Most ships will be accompanied by an invisible "dummy" unit that will spawn a row boat when your submarine approaches - the boat will have a ship's officer with the manifest. If the manifest has military equipment on it, you will be free to sink the ship.

Of course, there will always be a chance that it's a trap, and the ship is actually a Q-Ship!

Your other option is to sink ships without warning. However, you will risk losing renown if it turns out that they were not carrying contraband, or if they were blockade running merchants headed for Germany.

There will be some ships, especially late in the war, that you can attack without warning - these will be camouflaged merchant ships with visible gun platforms, etc.

I am drawing up a list of cargoes right now.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt

IABL finally I found the "number" of all u-boats of the Med. Flottilla:
START DATES: U-BOATS:
1915:
June: UC-12/UC-13/UC-14/UC-15/UB-14
August: U-34/U-35
Sep: U-39
1916:
March: UB-42/UB-44/UB-45/UB-46/U-73
October:U-71/UC-20/UC-22/UC-23/UC-35
November/december: U-47/U-32/U-63/U-64/U-65
1917:
Jan: UC-34/UC-37
Feb: UC-24
March: UC-67
April: UC-25/UC-27
July: UC-73/UC-53/UC-52/UC-54
Sep: UB-48/UB-50/UB-51
Dec :UB-52/UB-53
Dec: UB-66/UC-38
1918:
Jan: UB-68
March: UC-74
April-May: UB-105
Sep: UB-128/UB-129
PS: I am preparing a new rar archive with the paintings of Claus Bergen and others.

Thanks - I might end up doing the U-63 type submarines, which I have always liked. They were very active and sank a lot of ships in the Mediterranean.

[avers]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Here's my plan on how they will be implemented:

Merchant ships will no longer be assigned to individual nations, for the most part. There will be four merchant nationalities:

Merchant Nation: Contraband-Neutral (Base Renown Value 1)

Merchant Nation: Contraband-Hostile (Base Renown Value 1)

Merchant Nation: Non Contraband (Base Renown Value -1)

Merchant Nation: Friendly (Base Renown Value -5)

I can display any type of flag on a particular ship, so correct flag display is no longer an issue. This means that some ships under the Swedish flag, for example, will trade with Britain, while other Swedish ships will trade with Germany - just like it was during WWI. Also, some ships under the British/French/Russian flag cannot be sunk (if they are not carrying contraband or headed to hostile ports). Again, that was consistent with the prize rules.

Most ships will be accompanied by an invisible "dummy" unit that will spawn a row boat when your submarine approaches - the boat will have a ship's officer with the manifest. If the manifest has military equipment on it, you will be free to sink the ship.

Of course, there will always be a chance that it's a trap, and the ship is actually a Q-Ship!

Your other option is to sink ships without warning. However, you will risk losing renown if it turns out that they were not carrying contraband, or if they were blockade running merchants headed for Germany.

There will be some ships, especially late in the war, that you can attack without warning - these will be camouflaged merchant ships with visible gun platforms, etc.

I am drawing up a list of cargoes right now.

plus don't forget, there were two periods in the war where the U boats were allowed to wage unrestricted warfare. and this sounds cool.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by avers

plus don't forget, there were two periods in the war where the U boats were allowed to wage unrestricted warfare. and this sounds cool.

Will do. I have a picture of the unrestricted warfare zone. Maybe what I can do is, make it so that every ship sailing through that zone will get you positive renown - it's a simple matter of editing the campaign layers.

As for models - I started work on the U-87 Class conning tower last night and it went will. As soon as I get home from work today I will be going back in action to add more details to it and to the hull.....I also noticed that this hull can probably be used for other U-Boat classes, with modifications. More pictures of the progress to come.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

IABL, as I promiced, these are some Claus Bergen's paintings and some K.u.K. u-boats' postcards.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q2...pictures+3.rar
Wow, this is my hundredth post on subsim

[iambecomelife]

Thanks again! I had never seen some of the Klaus Bergen's you posted. I just spent last night detailing the U-87 and I will update again after I get home. I'm thinking of which sub to do next.

[iambecomelife]

Latest images of the model...conning tower has been added, but there's always more work to do. I am just about where I was when the original file was destroyed.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Wow!!! you have made an excellent work; expecially withe the conning tower

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

IABL; these are the u-boats of the Constantinople Flotilla (July 24th 1915-may 1th 1918)
1915:
UB-14/UB-7/UB-8 (until may 1916)/U-21/UC-13/UC-15/U-33;
1916:
UB-42/UB-44/UB-45/U-38/UC-23;
1918:
UC-37.
From 1915 to 1916 those submarines operated in Marmara Sea and Black Sea; from 1916 to 1918 (especially from 1917) these submarines operated in Aegean sea.

[Hitman]

I have a book about the Austro Hungarian submarines, including some plans. If you are interested in them, let me know.

It's this one here: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pawlik-S-M-Un...-/331339815455

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Hitman

I have a book about the Austro Hungarian submarines, including some plans. If you are interested in them, let me know.

It's this one here: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pawlik-S-M-Un...-/331339815455

Sure; if you could send me a link to any images I'd love that.

And to everyone reading this thread, I advise you to please contribute to Subsim if you can! It is the home of "Wolves of The Kaiser", after all.

Skinning the U-87 is going well; I will be preparing the next player submarine shortly if nothing goes wrong. More updates soon.

[subunit]

This looks really cool, glad to see it's still being developed!!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Most ships will be accompanied by an invisible "dummy" unit that will spawn a row boat when your submarine approaches - the boat will have a ship's officer with the manifest. If the manifest has military equipment on it, you will be free to sink the ship.

This is an awesome idea! I hope it works as planned. It will be cool to see it in operation.

Of course, there will always be a chance that it's a trap, and the ship is actually a Q-Ship!

I don't know if you saw in in the '100 Years' thread, or if you can even implement it by date, but the first U-boat sinking by a Q-ship took place on July 24, 1915.