Subs & 4 Week Campaign Turns

[hschuster44]

Due to time reasons I prefer 4 weeks campaign turns. During a whole North Sea campaign I never experienced any success of my subs. Is the chance to sink enemy ships equal to 1 week turns or increased by the factor four if you play in 4 weeks turns in order to get similar results over a whole campaign?

And btw: Can older custom scenarios from former SAI versions (e.g. version 1.5) used in v 1.6 or do we need to update them?

Thanks.

[randomizer]

Fredrik should be the person to weigh in on the submarines however their current effectiveness is something a compromise to prevent them from dominating the game; SAI is ultimately about surface warfare after all. Given that the operational tempo set by Players is typically much higher than in reality, toning down the lethality of submarines seemed logical. That said, when a scenario is run each submarine contact is unique so the odds for any particular attack to succeed in a four-week campaign turn scenario should be similar to that in a one-week turn scenario.

As for Custom Scenarios, they should be updated to v1.60 to avoid getting odd results or errors. Updating those scenarios that I authored and posting them here is on my to-do list once the SAI-RJW hits the streets but anyone who has the older versions installed can do this easy enough. Just open the scenario with the latest (SAI v1.60) Editor executable, ensure that all variables such as ship models, layers and objectives are satisfactory and then save, either overwriting the old files or under a new name.

[Fredrik W]

Submarines are only active during a scenario, not between scenarios. That is because submarine operations in SAI concentrate on submarines deployed in support of fleet operations.

There is no difference in submarine effectiveness depending on turn length, but as the number of scenarios played will probably be fewer when using 4-week turns, the overall number of sinkings by submarines should also be fewer.