[WIP] Wolves of the Kaiser:1914-1918 Mod

[Randomizer]

Spectacular screenshots! Wolves of the Kaiser will be mind-blowing when it's done. Thanks.

-C

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Your work is a Masterpiece !! I really love your incredible work.
The only thing I have some doubts about is the shape of the Type 23.
Let me explain: in your screeshot the hull shape and the some vents are very similar to the types 27 and 31, but they weren't

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Type 23 hadn't that 5 vents right over the torpedo tubes and a net cutter and the anchor should be in a slightly rearward position, because the hull number (very big in that class, like Type 19)





(Only U-25 had that two humps)


Sorry for so many images and for always pointing out for these small details
Anyway except for this small doubt, your work is impressive and outstanding.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt

Your work is a Masterpiece !! I really love your incredible work.
The only thing I have some doubts about is the shape of the Type 23.
Let me explain: in your screeshot the hull shape and the some vents are very similar to the types 27 and 31, but they weren't


Type 23 hadn't that 5 vents right over the torpedo tubes and a net cutter and the anchor should be in a slightly rearward position, because the hull number (very big in that class, like Type 19)




(Only U-25 had that two humps)


Sorry for so many images and for always pointing out for these small details
Anyway except for this small doubt, your work is impressive and outstanding.

Don't be sorry, thank you for the feedback and support! Changes to the model will be my new project for next week. Also, I think I will create versions of the conning towers with the old-style canvas screen you see instead of the metal shield.... based on what I've seen they used the canvas screens early in the war, and later on they used the rounded metal ones. If you look at U-20 which sank "Lusitania", she had a tower with rails for canvas around 1914, but had this replaced if you look at pictures of her wreck in 1916-1917.

After a lot of thought I will not be including user-updated Turms in the mod. There will be minor Conning Tower changes, but they will be equipped automatically and not in base mode. This is for several reasons:

-Too many of the SH4 supermod makers have had problems with CTD's & other glitches due to conning tower upgrades. I aim to make this mod as stable as possible (note how I just spent several sleepless nights getting rid of a museum CTD!) WOTK aims for QUALITY. and Stability.

-There was not a great variety of anti-aircraft weapons mounted on WWI conning towers. In fact I have only seen evidence of Conning Tower AA guns on the UB-I type. With a few exceptions, the blueprints show that AA machine guns were kept stowed and mounted on the bow or stern using a portable tripod if they were needed. Not fixed in place like the AA guns on a WWII Type VII.

-Aside from better crew screens, conning towers either didn't really change that much throughout WWI based on my research ... or the changes are so poorly documented I can't be accurate with them. Hope this is not a big issue.

[Mork_417]

Awesome screenshots!

[fitzcarraldo]

A great work. Congratulations. Hope you can made a video with the "beta" version.

Many thanks.

Fitzcarraldo

[iambecomelife]

RIP to Sailor Steve; we talked outside of Subsim and his encouragement will be sorely missed. I regret he was never able to play WOTK. I plan to add a special commemoration to him in the mod's final version.

Preparing some more screenshots now for the coming days.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

RIP to Sailor Steve; we talked outside of Subsim and his encouragement will be sorely missed. I regret he was never able to play WOTK. I plan to add a special commemoration to him in the mod's final version.

Preparing some more screenshots now for the coming days.

~~~~~~~\\~ On eternal patrol ~//~~~~~~~

~~ ~R. I. P.~ ~~

~~~~\ Sailor Steve /~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~









M. M.

[kongovsfuso142]

R. I. P. Sailor Steve you are dearly missed.







His name shall sail the seven seas for all eternity.


Kongo.

[iambecomelife]

Made a quick pivot back to surface ships..... stay tuned for screenshots of an ultra-high detailed ship involved in the most tragic convoy disaster of WWI! More news coming soon.

[iambecomelife]

As promised .... WIP of this lost ship. Finishing up all of her parts in Wings3d.

[iambecomelife]

...the "M" Class destroyer! Over 100 were built between 1914 and the end of the war. They were highly successful, but were all scrapped after the end of the war .... being worn out and obsolete compared to newer, bigger Royal Navy destroyers.

Below is the "M" Class HMS "Mary Rose" - a ship that became famous in the war for all the wrong reasons. Fittingly, I am working on this model almost on the anniversary of "Mary Rose's" last battle.

By October 1917 the convoy system was slowly but surely defeating the U-Boats. To protect trade between Scandinavia and the UK, the Royal Navy deployed large numbers of DD's and armed trawlers to shepherd merchant vessels on the Norway - England route.

On October 16, 1917 the regular Scandinavia convoy of 12 freighters sailed West, with "Mary Rose", her sister destroyer "Strongbow", and two armed trawlers as escort .... more than enough to deal with any submarine.

Unfortunately for the British, the German cruisers "Brummer" and "Bremse" were in the area - information about their raid was not passed on to "Mary Rose's" commander. On the morning of October 17, "Mary Rose" challenged the Germans at close range, mistaking them for British cruisers ... and got blown out of the water in a hail of gunfire. Her gunners bravely returned fire but were soon forced overboard as she sank beneath them. "Strongbow" was also sunk in minutes, and the raiders went on to annihilate the convoy. Only three cargo ships escaped. Out of Mary Rose's 100 crew, only 10 men reached shore in a damaged lifeboat. In all, more than 250 sailors were killed, and the German raiders escaped with no loss.



Photo of Mary Rose's crew is courtesy of the author Kristen den Hartog.





Almost exactly 105 years later, the sacrifice of "Mary Rose" and her brave men is almost forgotten - probably because it was such an embarrassing defeat for the Royal Navy. May the men of "Mary Rose" RIP as their anniversary approaches.

My model of the "M" class has several errors and still needs some parts and crew figures, but it is much better than the previous version IMHO ... I am a slow learner but I learn.

[iambecomelife]

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Excellent stuff, Iambecomelife!

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Always hats off to you and your incredible work

[iambecomelife]

Next project is corrections to U23 that were pointed out, plus early war conning towers ... I am going to make some nice canvas screening for 1914 before they realized that all metal conning towers were better. If you look at Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt's screenshots you will notice how they draped canvas over the early war boats to protect the crew.

Also a list of the most important outstanding items .... keep faith, trying for a 2023 release. Thanks for the support.