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Author:  Amartus [ June 28th, 2015, 5:47 am ]
Post subject:  Long-time watcher's questions
Hello everybody

I have been visiting this site periodically for years, and have just recently created an account. I was wondering about the dos and don'ts with regard to asking members if they would be happy to draw a particular ship, or what the etiquette is when putting out a personal design challenges? Is this something that allowed, or is it generally frowned upon?

So the above does not sound too enigmatic, I have an interest in alternate history, and have an idea for one of my own. Essentially, this would be Germany being allowed to re-arm somewhat earlier than in our timeline due to the Soviets doing better against the Poles in 1920 (basically no Miracle-on-the-Vistula). The end-goal would be to create a mod / scenario for Darkest Hour (this is a game based on Hearts of Iron 2) spanning the period from say 1928 through to 1948. What I would like to do HERE is nut out what warships it would be practical / realistic for Germany to build in that period, and get the images (in ShipBucket style) to populate some of the graphics of the mod - just to clarify, this would be a non-profit endeavour, with the mod itself freely available to the members of the Darkest Hour community.

Anyway, I hope I have not over- / under-explained above. Regardless of anything else, I think it really cool that a site like this exists, and it is always very exciting to see these grand old warships come to life.

Cheers,
Amartus
Author:  JSB [ June 28th, 2015, 9:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Long-time watcher's questions
Welcome,
I think you can ask,
but I don't think you can expect lots of work unless you give it a try yourself (and don't worry people will happily critic your designs) and having more than 1 design completion open at any time tends to just dilute the work.
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Essentially, this would be Germany being allowed to re-arm somewhat earlier than in our timeline due to the Soviets doing better against the Poles in 1920 (basically no Miracle-on-the-Vistula).
Ok my take on this is that you would not need many more ships the Soviets didn't have much in the way of modern stuff so just adding a few more destroyers for Baltic work ?
in OTL limits,
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twelve destroyers (not exceeding 800 long tons (810 t)) and twelve torpedo boats (not exceeding 200 long tons (200 t))
So maybe up to 24/36 of each ? should easily deal with any Soviet fleet unless they build a lot more ships.

I think the main point would be they would be allowed more in the way of an army (and maybe CAS aircraft ?)
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get the images (in ShipBucket style) to populate some of the graphics of the mod - just to clarify, this would be a non-profit endeavour, with the mod itself freely available to the members of the Darkest Hour community.
Not sure about if this is allowed (would they still be credited ? you should PM Gollevainen to get a answer)
Author:  Amartus [ June 28th, 2015, 11:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Long-time watcher's questions
Hi JSB

Thank you kindly for your reply.

This is an AU that has been bouncing around in my mind for a while. I will have to post a timeline (although that might be better set to another sub-forum rather than General Discussion), but I have the following basic goals:
1. Plausibly allow for Germany to restore (at least some of) its pre-WWI status / position without the Nazis or other such idiots coming to power
2. To reduce the preponderance of the UK / USA, so that
3. There is a manifestly multi-polar world restored, rather than one or two super-powers

With regard to the images themselves in such a mod for Darkest Hour, I might have cocked-up my explanation before. Basically, each model of each unit has a picture accompanying it. These are generally photos from the period. So for example, the model representing the Deutschland Pocket-Battleships might use a picture of Graf Spee, or Admiral Scheer, or Deutschland / Lützow herself. For 'never-weres' or personal designs such a possibility does not unfortunately exist, which is why I thought of using ShipBucket images instead (should the site / the artists give their permission). I will try to post some examples of what I mean tomorrow.

Anyway, thanks again,
Amartus
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