Yep, that's the "Tresher", an apparently unrecorded sister-ship to the "Thresher", a Tambor-class submarine. Must've run out of H's at the UBIStore.

I hope I can survive the war as well as the Thresher did.

HA! And here I was going to encourage you to 'check your spelling.'

Here ya go . . . from SubSim:


Just find that file and edit. That is, if you have any H's left at your house.

You can just see that those Romanian Developers were "on the ball" and correctly checked their resources before putting out this game...

Next time an Eastern European company does a sim about a Western European/American subject, it might behove them to hire a Western European or American to, if nothing else, spell check . . .

Thanks, I'll do that. One of the things I enjoy about American subs vs. German is that they have names, and thus personalities. It was always a little hard for me to get very fond of U-571.

No offense guys, but this is getting into the realm of nit picking.

There are problems with the game, several in fact but I haven't found a title released by anyone where I cannot find errors like this.

It happens. Sometimes proofreaders miss things.

I posted it because I thought it was humorous ... and you have to admit that it is unlikely a dev team that included a few U.S. Navy (even amateur) historians would have got any of the submarine names or the U.S. Navy medals wrong.

I'm not slagging on you HammFist. I'm just talking to those that will go beserk over a typo. That could happen with any game, US or foreign.

The US Medals is something different. It isn't difficult to find the correct listing of US Navy Medals and make a correct listing. I have a real problem with that. What is frustrating is that the development team should have realized that many would have a problem with that. It would be no different if the team made a game based upon their home country and got all of their medals wrong. Trust me, they would have gotten flak from the locals. They should have realized that the true players of this game, the types that will follow it for a while, will not like a lot of the psueodo medals that came with the game.

I also have a real problem with some of the other 'features' like the North Carolina class BBs in port right after Pearl Harbor, the odd traffic you see in ports like Wake (stopped there before it was overrun-an awful lot of ships there) and some of the other innacuracies. Those are legitimate gripes.

This is a bug but one the devs can fix in 2 seconds for the next patch. At the same time I want them to really concentrate on the hard stuff, the stuff that should have been correct.

Don't take it personal. BTW, are the SkySox still playing there? I was stationed at Fort Carson for 3 years, I own some retirement property up in Buena Vista. I should head that way again to check on it and to see some family back in Colorado Springs. I have an Aunt and Uncle there.

The funny thing about the medals situation (in case you don't know) is that some of the SubSim mod-types have delved into the files and happened to find a file with all of the correct medals. Go figure.

Hammfist, I agree about the personality thing. I want to eventually command the USS Drum . . . I got to go aboard the Drum in Alabama and walk all the way through (including climbing to the persicope station and taking a peek). That will certainlly add personality to a sub. I highly recommend going to a naval museum that has a WW2 sub on display to really see what it's like inside. I don't know about others places, but in the Drum they had sub veterans who acted as tour guides. I asked them what movie came closest to accurately depicting WW2 sub life and without pause several of them answered "Das Boot."