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

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Yes and on september 29th 1918 the us battleship Minnesota was damaged by a mine of the U-117 (UE-2 class).

Can you add the UE-2 class? PLEASE
UE-2 class (U-117,U-118,U-119,U-120,U-122,U-123 and U-124)
displacement: 1164 t(sf)
1512 t(sm)
1880 t(total)
lenght: 81,52 m
draught: 4,22 m
height: 10,16 m
Speed: 14,7 (sf)
(knots) 7,0 (sm)
range: 13900/8 miles (sf)
35/4,5 miles (sm)
max deep: 75 m
Armament: 4/0 (bow/stern tubes) 14 torpedos, 150mm deck gun (494 rounds), 88mm deck gun and 42 mines.
this class entered in service in july 1918 in the U-cruiser flottilla. but only u-117, u-118 and u-123 had sucesses.

[iambecomelife]

The Lusitania tribute video has been updated to include an improved soundtrack, and minor edits to the narration. I highly recommend you view this version, even if you've seen the old one... Link is below:

Originally Posted by Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt

Yes and on september 29th 1918 the us battleship Minnesota was damaged by a mine of the U-117 (UE-2 class).

Can you add the UE-2 class? PLEASE
UE-2 class (U-117,U-118,U-119,U-120,U-122,U-123 and U-124)
displacement: 1164 t(sf)
1512 t(sm)
1880 t(total)
lenght: 81,52 m
draught: 4,22 m
height: 10,16 m
Speed: 14,7 (sf)
(knots) 7,0 (sm)
range: 13900/8 miles (sf)
35/4,5 miles (sm)
max deep: 75 m
Armament: 4/0 (bow/stern tubes) 14 torpedos, 150mm deck gun (494 rounds), 88mm deck gun and 42 mines.
this class entered in service in july 1918 in the U-cruiser flottilla. but only u-117, u-118 and u-123 had sucesses.

There will be American battleships. As you know, though, you will only have 1917 and 1918 to attack them (unless you want a court martial).

With respect to UE-2 boats, maybe. I will need to add mines to the player's inventory. This doesn't worry me because it has been done before for another mod. Because the number of torpedo types is scripted at about 12, for simplicity's sake I will only use one type of mine to equip all U-Boats. The other torpedo slots need to be saved for all other torpedoes that will appear ingame. Sorry if you're a WWI mine fanatic.

Some updates to the environment. You can see the improved land textures....the location is off the infamous Old Head of Kinsale (still need to place the lighthouse there, which was built some years before 1915).


I tweaked existing environmental mods for TMO and the SH3 water for SH4. I used to not be able to have clouds with the SH3 water mod - as you can see, this glitch has been resolved. I may add more of a green-gray tone to the water later on.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Ok.
one othe question: would you want some drowings of US ships ?

[Hitman]

IABL what about sail ships and tall ships? There wre loads of them around in WW1, many sunk by Uboats. Are we going to see some of that?

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/13...+1916+1918.jpg
in this site there's a map of the Iberian Peninsula.
I made this map because Portugal was an important state in ww1.
on march 9th 1916 Germany declared war against Portugal; during the war 115 merchant ships were sunk by german u-boats, but importan were the destroyers and the armed merchant cruisers that sank a lot of german and K.u.K. ships in mediterranean sea and atlantic oceans and the famous "Action of 14 octouber 1918" where the u-cruiser U-139 sank the portuguese armed drifter NRP Augusto Castilho.
These are the mayor warships of portuguese navy:


Adamastor class CL


Tejo class DD (similar than the italian Audace class)


Douro class DD

armed drifters

[iambecomelife]

Thanks; I saved the image to my HD.

I'm in good shape with drawings of US ships; I have a copy of "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships" covering WWI.

Yes, there will be sailing vessels and combination sail/steam-powered ships. And thank you for the Portuguese ship images; that model is quite detailed.

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Perfect: Up:
For the merchant fleet can you use some ships of the "normal game" like these?



They were tipical ww1 cargo ships

[avers]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

The Lusitania tribute video has been updated to include an improved soundtrack, and minor edits to the narration. I highly recommend you view this version, even if you've seen the old one... Link is below:






There will be American battleships. As you know, though, you will only have 1917 and 1918 to attack them (unless you want a court martial).

With respect to UE-2 boats, maybe. I will need to add mines to the player's inventory. This doesn't worry me because it has been done before for another mod. Because the number of torpedo types is scripted at about 12, for simplicity's sake I will only use one type of mine to equip all U-Boats. The other torpedo slots need to be saved for all other torpedoes that will appear ingame. Sorry if you're a WWI mine fanatic.

Mines? How is that going to work? Also can we see some updates on the merchant fleet, like new freighters and, or tankers?

to make a mine you only need to make a torpedo that has no guidance, speed and sink rate. you just have to set an appropriate "hovering" depth and add a mine 3d-model. this is how the mines in "battle for the baltic" are done

[GeneralNation]

Will the Britannic and the Olympic be in? Sorry if i missed something.

[Hitman]

Pics from the interior of the salvaged U110, you probably had them already but just in case. Man, were those things cramped

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war...wi-u-boat.html

Also sent you some more stuff per PM

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Sailors I found this interesting ship, theCoastal Motor Boat. these where the first MTB of the Royal Navy; they entered in the war on late 1916 and served in the North Sea against the german ships and submarines.
Displacement: 4,5 tons
lenght: 14 m
max speed: 28,8 kn
complement: 3 or 2 sailors
armament: 1 × 18-inch torpedo, 2 × .303 Lewis machine guns and 4 deep charges.
I hope that you' ll use this ship in the mod.




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[avers]

hi IABL, are you going to put in British submarines? So we can shoot and sink them.

[avers]

Originally Posted by Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt

Sailors I found this interesting ship, theCoastal Motor Boat. these where the first MTB of the Royal Navy; they entered in the war on late 1916 and served in the North Sea against the german ships and submarines.
Displacement: 4,5 tons
lenght: 14 m
max speed: 28,8 kn
complement: 3 or 2 sailors
armament: 1 × 18-inch torpedo, 2 × .303 Lewis machine guns and 4 deep charges.
I hope that you' ll use this ship in the mod.
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that MTB does look cool, one question out of curiosity, that boat has its torpedo in the back and no torpedo tubes, how would it shoot the torp?

[Kapitain Oliver Leinkraunt]

Some time ago I posted some images of the Ottoman Navy, but they were not very detailed, so I found that:

Hamidiye class cruiser (Abdul Hamid)

Yarhisar class TB (Samsun)
So these are the japanese ships that arrived at Malta on april 1917:

Lider cruiser Nisshin (Garibaldi class)

2 Suma class cruiser

Momo class DD

Koba class DD