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ORIGINAL: Froonp

There is no editor, but all the counters factors and all the map datas are contained in a dozen of CSV files. Editing CSV files is pretty easy, once you know the meaning of each field, and the MWiF documentation will have an appendix where all those fields are described. And if iit is not sufficient, I've worked enougth on the counters and the map to give directions to anyone who would have problems editing the counters.

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Hellfirejet,

Open office's spreadsheet program works well with CSV's also, and its a free office suite.  Ya might want to look into it.

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Hellfirejet,

Open office's spreadsheet program works well with CSV's also, and its a free office suite.  Ya might want to look into it.

I think that you should not use any office program to edit the CSV files, only text editors.
Other programs may have a tendency to disrupt the CSV file.

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Hellfirejet,

Open office's spreadsheet program works well with CSV's also, and its a free office suite.  Ya might want to look into it.

I think that you should not use any office program to edit the CSV files, only text editors.
Other programs may have a tendency to disrupt the CSV file.

Well I edit csv files all the time at work with excel, its one of the native formats, I just assumed open office has a csv native format too, but I do not know.

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Thanks Froonp,
I like to edit stuff to my own strenght values,in respect of the naval aspect of things,Scharnhorst is my favourite ship I have a photo of her on my desktop defence wise she was comparable to the Bismarck,great pity she only ever had 11in guns![:)]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Althought the German navy was small compared to what she had in the 1st world war,Germany during the 2nd world war in my opinion, never really used her surface fleet in an agressive manner,on land and in the air Germany was agressive,but at sea they were to say the least ineffectual, althought the uboats were good in wolf packs. The surface ships should have concentrated on the British merchant convoys much more often than they did during the actual war.[:)]

In general they were used in 1 or 2 ship missions,that ran away at the first sign of a capital ship.[;)]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Althought the German navy was small compared to what she had in the 1st world war,Germany during the 2nd world war in my opinion, never really used her surface fleet in an agressive manner,on land and in the air Germany was agressive,but at sea they were to say the least ineffectual, althought the uboats were good in wolf packs. The surface ships should have concentrated on the British merchant convoys much more often than they did during the actual war.[:)]

In general they were used in 1 or 2 ship missions,that ran away at the first sign of a capital ship.[;)]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Yip captain Langsdorff was a true gentleman,by all accounts in any books I have read,Admiral Graf Spee and her 2 sister ships were perfect for what they were designed for commerse raiders,faster than any British battleship except the battlecruisers,and stronger than any cruiser.[8D]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

Yip your right again they were not designed to engage Battleships,and that the newer battleships were faster the French Dunkerque's approx 30 knots compared to the Pocket battleships 28 knots,not to be to disrespectful to the French navy but they did not do much during the war either![;)]

In regard to fighting more than one target,her 6 x 11in main armament could engage the most powerful opponent, while her 8 x 5.9in secondary could keep other targets busy,as at the battle of the river plate that I mentioned earlier proved, she was more than capable of taking on more than one opponent.[;)]


Name: Admiral Graf Spee
Namesake: Maximilian von Spee
Laid down: 1 October 1932
Launched: 30 June 1934
Commissioned: 6 January 1936[1]
Nickname: Graf Spee
Fate: Scuttled 17 December 1939
General characteristics
Class and type: Deutschland class cruiser
Displacement: 12,100 t standard;
16,200 t full load
Length: 186 m (610 ft)[2]
Beam: 21.65 m (71.0 ft)[2]
Draught: 7.34 metres (24.1 ft)[2]
Propulsion: Eight 9-cylinder double-acting two-stroke MAN diesels
two screws, 52,050 hp
Speed: 28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range: 8,900 nautical miles at 20 knots (16,500 km at 37 km/h)
Or
19,000 nautical miles at 10 knots (35,000 km at 18.5 km/h)
Complement: 1001-1,150[1]
Electronic warfare
and decoys: Early version of Seetakt radar[3]
Armament: 6 × 280 mm (11 inch)
8 × 150 mm (5.9 inch)
6 × 105 mm (4.1 inch)
8 × 37 mm
10 × 20 mm
8 × 533 mm (21 inch) torpedo tubes
Armor: turret face: (140 mm)
belt: (100 mm)
deck: 40-70 mm)
Aircraft carried: Two Arado 196 seaplanes, one catapult

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

All true but in my eyes it's better to go down fighting than let yourself be scuttled,maybe a bit to agressive, but I would have taken the damage,closed the range on Exeter and blown her out of the water,then turned my attention on the those annoying light cruiser,with my main + secondary armaments,I don't think Ajax or Achilles could have withstood much 11in shell damage before being SUNK,they can't shadow and give position reports if they are at the bottom of the south atlantic,the army and airforce were fighting and taking heavy losses,the navy should have done the same,I mean they were supposed to be at war.

All reports after the battle showed that it was Exeters 8in shells, that were penetrating Admiral Graf Spee armour and doing damage,Ajax and Achilles 6in shells in general were not penetrating her armour,so the damage they were inflicting was more annoying than a major concern.After Exeter had been sunk, I feel the light cruisers would have had to try and increase the range or suffer the same fate of Exeter.

Then when at there max 6in gun range any hits would be fewer, but Admiral Graf Spees 11in shells with the aid of plunging fire, would go through Ajax & Achilles armour like a hot knife through butter,with only one outcome the destruction of the ship.