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This is a small nit to pick, and I realize a lot of things have been brought over from earlier games, but please change the icon for windage in naval combat and call it crossing the T or something. It simply doesn’t fit to have such a huge bonus going to a side in naval combat for gaining windage in WW1 combats.

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Good point and I agree with that.
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I suspect they are modeling the advantage that you get from not having all that nasty black smoke blown back at you. Those WWI ships belched out horrible clouds of smoke when they fired, as well as from their boilers as I understand it. So being upwind could help you spot and observe I guess.
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Or even consider the sun/horizon advantage etc.....
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Im sure its an old engine design error from pride of nations etc...
I would expect its already on the fix list
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ORIGINAL: TheWombat

I suspect they are modeling the advantage that you get from not having all that nasty black smoke blown back at you. Those WWI ships belched out horrible clouds of smoke when they fired, as well as from their boilers as I understand it. So being upwind could help you spot and observe I guess.

Exactly, the name is a bit misleading but is supposed to simulate wind. Ships in 1914 were not as modern as one would expect and a simple thing as the wind was rather important at that time (flag communication, smoke from boilers, or for smoke screens for example).
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ORIGINAL: Metatron

ORIGINAL: TheWombat

I suspect they are modeling the advantage that you get from not having all that nasty black smoke blown back at you. Those WWI ships belched out horrible clouds of smoke when they fired, as well as from their boilers as I understand it. So being upwind could help you spot and observe I guess.

Exactly, the name is a bit misleading but is supposed to simulate wind. Ships in 1914 were not as modern as one would expect and a simple thing as the wind was rather important at that time (flag communication, smoke from boilers, or for smoke screens for example).

This is the kind of information that I like getting from these forums. I don't think I would have ever known that.
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