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Old 04-24-23, 01:31 PM   #2702
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Hey, brickvapie here, will there be US Naval ships beyond Troop Transports and Merchant Vessels? and what about countries like Norway and Sweden? I would also like to add that there was Uboot Naval Squadrons in Germany-targeted towards Russian Trade and ships in the Baltic, will those be represneted?
thanks, brickvapie

"We die in the dark so you can live in the light."
Unfortunately, no unique US warships in the initial release, except maybe four-stack destroyers (USS Wickes type)....in order to save time only Britain and Germany will have many unique warship units. The US, French, Norwegian, Austrian etc navies will only have generic armed trawler - types.

Stock SH4 has US battleships from WWI but it would take too much work to bring them up to standard.

Turkey will have the battlecruiser Goeben, because I have already modeled her sister ship Moltke.

Currently we will have Baltic missions. The U-9 Class has been modeled, and that class saw a good deal of service there.

High priority nations for later warship releases are:

Austria-Hungary
France
Italy
Russia
United States

In other news, great strides are being made with WOTK aviation! The mod's aircraft will be the subject of upcoming posts, along with U-9 sub class (have been working on her exhaust) .... Don't want to spoil the surprise yet. Furthermore, in a major behind the scenes success, war-related radio broadcasts are nearly complete! I plan to have messages from June 1914 to December 1918 (thus covering a little time before and after the war) - As of today, I have completed literally THOUSANDS of unique news items from 06/01/1914 to 04/10/1917. So a little more than a year and a half left; this seemed like an almost endless task.

The late Sailor Steve deserves credit for this achievement....without his epic World War I daily news thread on subsim, I never would have been able to do this. Rest in peace, buddy - when I join you we will be blasting merchants at the Pearly Gates together. I am still planning a special tribute to him as a WOTK Easter Egg.

I also want to give a shoutout to Tonnage King and the other volunteers from WOTK's facebook team. Thanks to them I am looking into some very special "reach goals" for the sim that will also improve SH4 as a whole. Again, I don't want to spoil the surprise, but big things are coming.
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