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Originally Posted by kevinsue
Hello gap, yes it would be handy to have a base at Messina. Even though the base at Salamis isn't included on the SH5 map, the port of Piraeus supports refitting in game. Not sure if a u boat pen is required to be able to resupply at a particular port but the places that appear to support resupply also have a "Radio Antenna" icon on the map.
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Hi Kevin,
as far as I know Piraeus has never been an U-boat base, and no cases are recorded of an U-boat docking there. The Salamis naval base is very close to Piraeus though: the two harbors are ca. 5 nm away from each other, and it is possible that on some WWII related publications, Salamis and Piraeus are treated as synonims, leading devs to think that they are one thing
If I was Vecko, I would probably move the Greek U-boat base from Piraeus to Salamis, I would add Pola to the pool of available U-boat pens that the player can be rebased to, and I would make Messina available again for refittings until December 1942.
Above all, I would rework the Mediterranean campaigns and I would make them to extend from September 1941 to Semptember 1944, more or less (the
Mare Nostrum and
Battle of the Mediterranean campaigns currently span from mid-March 1941, six months before the first WWII U-boat historically crossed Gibraltar, to early September 1942, when the Batte of the Mediterranean was still raging).
Here are some interesting links on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medite...f_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle..._Mediterranean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._Mediterranean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medite..._(World_War_II)
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsStartMed.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRNMed.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRNMed2.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRNMed3.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRNMed4.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsBalkans.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Camp...orthAfrica.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Camp...rthAfrica2.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsItaly.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsSFrance.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regia_Marina#World_War_II
http://www.icsm.it/regiamarina/battles.htm