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Originally Posted by Trevally.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions they would like added to the campaign - now would be a good time to let me know  |
Hi Trevally, thank you for your inestimable work, and for all the effort and time you're putting in it!
Though not currently playing the game, I highly appreciate and follow with maximum interest the development of OHII, like everyone in subsim community, but I think you know it allready, so let's go to the point...
A few weeks ago, while reading on the web about WWII U-boat historical operations, to my surprise I've discovered the existence of the so called
Monsun Gruppe, whose theatre was partly South Pacific, partly
Indian Ocean and Far East. What about adding to OHII a new campaign for it?
I know that most of Monsoon U-boats were of the type IX, currently not featured by SH5, but hopefully with the development of GR2 editor by TDW, one day we will be able to add these boats to the game. I am also aware that adding a new war theatre to the existing campaigns would probably require a lot of work in creating some new nations, new shipping lines, new ports and player bases (and possibly much more that I can't think of right now
), but these additions shouldn't necessarily featured in the next release of OHII, and in my opinion they would add a lot to the depth of the game. After all we have a whole SH5 earth globe, but we are currently using only a small part of it.
Provided that you like the idea, I would be glad to collect some historical data on it. Too bad, the next week I'll have to go abroad for field work, and I'll not be back until 4 weeks from now. In the meanwhile you could consult the following links for general information:
http://uboat.net/ops/monsun.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsun_Gruppe
http://www.uboataces.com/articles-fareast-boats4.shtml
http://monsun-uboats.blogspot.it/