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theyre may be difference in AI response depending on wether the ships is part of the RND file or the SCR file....(? possibility)
try sending a few DDHUNTIII's against a german Battleship (perhaps include a brit BB to direct the germans BB's main fire away from the DD's 9or they'll be dead before they can get within torp range) the HUNTIII's do have torpedo loudouts and weapon nodes so if there's any chance of them useing torps then they should use them against overwheming odds.?
no point the AI useing them against anything smaller that they can finish of with their main guns..

what about the torpedo boats surely they can be persuaded to launch torps..?


i'm becoming curious about these
weapon and sensor entrys for the EQP file

[Equipment 1]
NodeName=M01
LinkName=4InchDouble
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

etc
etc

very similar insome respects to the SH2 sytem except that most ships (not all tho) have all their equipment and weapons on line right from 1938 onwards....the campaign seems to use different DD's to replicate the increase in capability of the DD's rather than up-date-ing the sensors on those allready there (for example going from the HUNTI to the HUNTII as escort for a new convoy that starts in 42 the earlier one ends in 42 and so on..) me thinks that altering the EQP file dates for the later sensor would allow perhaps the campaign to automatically update the type of sensor depending on the date on the campaign/mission/patrol..rather than relying on replacing the dd with a later type...(which requires an entirely new convoy to be included)

trouble with this is the convoy's CFG date in the RND file..which seems to suggest that the ships sensor weaponary date is tied to a constant date rather than dynamically adjusting to the in game date..

so the HUNT II if included early on in the war allready carries its late war weapons sensors simply because it hasn't got a graduated date for the introduction of the newer stuff in the EQP file (everything is dated from 38) AND your limited to the RND convoys CFG date entry...mind you ive probably mised the plot somewhere here..but if not there's a lot of minor but highly impactive alterations that can be made so that the early war DD's can carry late war sensor and weapons which means that convoy escorted by Hunt I DD's will get tougher as the war progresses..

havent messed with it yet just looked at it with a view to hiking the difficulty level a bit..you could just replace all DD HUNT I's with HUNT II's and do it that way (ive tried this and will let you know how it goes on)

but there's no indication that i have seen of a minimal introduction date for the DD HUNTII's so haveing them appear in 38 will either be perfectly ok or if there's a restriction somewhere i haven't found it will obviously crash the campaign ...
which is why the dynamic sensor weapon dates via the EQP files would be best..but that convoy RND cfg date for the DD's is confusing me..not only in the editor does it limit you to 38 or 39...but it might allso mean that setting it manualy by text editor to 42 or 43 might cause problems some where else and it doesn't allow for any progression other than have-ing a completely new convoy replacing the older one at a set date...whilst this allows for greater variety i convoy make up etc it does seem to be wastefull