[REL] The Battle for the Baltic

[Poul]

Mod GREAT WAR Part 1 - "The Battle for the Baltic"

Mod "The Battle for the Baltic" is a story about actions of the Soviet fleet of submarines in Great War.

The player will operate the basic types of the Soviet submarines. In difficult conditions of Baltic sea: small depth. Continuous danger from the mines in gulf of Finland (beginning 1942 - till the end of war). The full superiority of aircrafts of the opponent in the War beginning.

Project working out: SOM Group

• The Author of the project:
- Vladislav Lobanov (Dagon)

• Creation of models:

- Valentine Abalihin (aka Vaa)
- Vladislav Lobanov (aka Dagon)
- Egor Naumov (aka EON)
- Andrey Demenkov (aka Severen)

• Creation of maps and the companies:

- Sergey Maharinets (aka Mariman)
- Vadim Shevchenko (aka Travelmate)

• Creation of sound design:

- Pavel Sarbash (aka Poul)

• Creation arts and textures:

- Andrey Tejder (aka Tei)

• Translation of texts on English language:

- Sergei

Mod platform: Silent Hunter 4 + German campaign (the version of game 1.5)

Submarines accessible to the player:

Type "M"
Type "Щ"
Type "C"
"Лембит" ("Lembit")
"Л-55" (L-55)

The mod characteristic:

In the mod have appeared more than 100 new various units (aircrafts and the ships), for example:

German Easy Cruiser "Leipzig"
German mine layer "Brummer 2"
German mine layer "Louise"
German type destroyers "Narvik"
The Finnish Battleship of coastal defence "Vjajnemjajnen"
Finnish mine-sweeper type "Rautu"
The Finnish gunboat "Hamenmaa"
The Soviet lungs of a cruiser of the project 26
The Soviet destroyer of type "7u"
German fighter "FW-189"
German dive bomber "Ju-87"
German dive bomber "Ju-88"
German bomber "He-111"
German Sturmovik "HS-129"
The Soviet fighter "I-16"
The Soviet fighter "La-7"
The Soviet dive bomber "PE-2"
Soviet Sturmovik "IL-2"

Areas of patrols in this project - real and historical. They were created on the basis of real campaigns, maps of that time and memoirs of veterans - submariners.

The mines obstacles were created on the basis of maps and schemes of that time. The mines obstacles on 95 % coincide with real in that time.

Commanders of submarines will have various fighting missions. Including - rescue of crew of a submarine which has an emergency.

LINKS FOR MOD AND (SP):

http://www.six-oceans.ru/files/Great_War_p1_Battle_For_Baltic_Ver_100.rar

- the size of 234 Mb.
* Installation through JSGME or directly with replacement of files.

http://www.six-oceans.ru/files/GW_BfB_Fix.rar

- the size of 8.28 Mb.

Additions for mod Great War - The Battle for the Baltic (only after loading of the main mod):

1. "Real Min GW Balt "- Real the mines obstacles in Baltic sea. The period: on June, 22nd 1941 - on May, 9th 1945. Created by Germany and Soviet Union.

http://www.six-oceans.ru/files/Real_Min_GW_Balt.rar

2. "History target Submarine GW BALT" - Real tasks which fulfilled submarines of the Baltic Fleet. In 1941-45гг in Baltic sea. Without game scenarios.

http://www.six-oceans.ru/files/History_target_Submarine_GW_Balt.rar

3, Russian voices of a command «The Soviet Grew»:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159892

* Are created by Pavel Sarbash. The special order for the project "The Battle for the Baltic".


SCRINSHOTS:

http://forum.six-oceans.ru/post/47/#p47


ALL GUESTIONS - TO ASK FOR "DAGON".

[Bubblehead1980]

very interesting, will have to try it out later this week when i have time to really play some.

Which link should i click to download this mod?

[CaptJodan]

This sounds exciting. A new theater of operations of the much less publicized soviet sub war. Looking forward to trying this out.

[sergei]

Looks very interesting

My russian is poor however.


Want to play this,

Looks good.

Thumbs up to people who made this.

[Poul]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

very interesting, will have to try it out later this week when i have time to really play some.

Which link should i click to download this mod?

Thanks.

The first: LINKS FOR MOD AND (SP):
Both references by turns.
Then - all the rest.

CaptJodan!

You have told: "My russian is poor however".
I very well understand you. Because my English is very-very poor however. SOM Group need the translator. At least for the basic part of the project.
May be - here there are people which can make it? If it is interesting, of course.

[VonHesse]

Am I doing something wrong? I have SH4 v1.5. I downloaded both the mod and the fix and installed both with JSGME. Started the game and saw the new screen. Looks good, very nice... but then everything is in Russian

By guess, I start a career. Orders come in Russian except for the words "Porpise" and "Pearl Harbor". Started first patrol... to Luzon??

When I went to the navigation map it looked very different, but I could see that I was in Pearl Harbor... then it crashed. Tried it again and got the same thing.

Not using with any other mods. Hope someone can help. Very excited to be on the Soviet side

[Poul]

Originally Posted by VonHesse

Hope someone can help. Very excited to be on the Soviet side

Thanks.

Certainly! The help will be. I am glad that to you interestingly. But I have simply told about this project. The expert - DAGON. He will give consultations.

[looney]

So the mod is in russian?

I don't think I can play it then... my russian aint that good (... more like none excistend)

[keltos01]

see ! and people want us to make japanese voices for our mod !

I am really interrested in this mod

especially since a japanese sub sank L16 that was going to Murmansk from Vladivistok by way of the Panama canal


good job Dagon n Co !

keltos

[Poul]

Originally Posted by looney

So the mod is in russian?

I don't think I can play it then... my russian aint that good (... more like none excistend)

OK. Try to make it:




The game beginning:

When the player chooses year of start of career. It is necessary to go to the list end. There above - America. Below - Baltic.

[DarkFish]

GREAT mod, but there's one little problem:


now i wouldn't mind if the menu were in russian (i can read cyrillic so i could guess the meaning of most words) but with this kind of gibberish it's unplayable...
I think that my version of SH4 (EU version) displays the characters differently than the russion version..

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

Very interesting, a very neglected part of the war and the Finnish defense on all fronts was a marvel of determination and freedom. Glad to see this era getting attention, hopefully once a translated version or at least a translated GUI is available we can play this. Thank you very much for this fine effort.

[Zel]

This looks like a great mod! The Russian subs are wonderful, and the Russian voices are cool, although there are some glitches.

I've managed to get this mod working with v1.4, fiddling with the game files.

The menu texts are in Russian. To change them back to english, simply go to your original Sh4 folder, and copy the file "menu.txt" to the Baltic mod. It goes into the data\menu folder. This will change the menus back to english, but the campaign selection and mission briefings will still be in russian.

If the game crashes while zooming on the navigation map, try this: go to data\campaigns\CampaignRU and open the file "GW_LOC.mis" with your notepad. Use the replace function to replace every instance "Agency_12.dds" to "FPCond18.dds". Click "replace all" button. This should fix the navigation map crash.

If you can run single missions with a russian sub, but not the campaign, there is a problem probably in the campaigns or upcdata folders.

Great work on this mod!

[VonHesse]

Originally Posted by Poul

The game beginning:

When the player chooses year of start of career. It is necessary to go to the list end. There above - America. Below - Baltic.

Thank you, that was what I needed. Sailing in the Baltic Sea
New subs look very nice! Thank you Dagon and everyone else.

Still crashing, though. If I zoom out on the map, the game will crash. If I zoom in, the game is ok. If I zoom out will it always crash.

Edit: Thank you Zel, I will try the changes you recommend.

[DarkFish]

of course! the font files!
Poul, could you please PM me the contents of your Data\Menu\Fonts folder? Or make them publically available? I expect this will solve my problem!