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Norwegian Operations
--an unofficial expansion pack to The Grey Wolves

Current status: Pre-alpha.
Est. time of release: Mid-2007 at the earliest.

Norwegian Operations is an expansion pack for Grey Wolves that will add cities, land installations, vessels, planes, battles, and partisan operations to Silent Hunter III, expanding the Norwegian theatre of the game significantly. You will, among other things, experience the sinking of the Heavy Cruiser Blücher, protect the German landings at Narvik, and patrol the North Sea for Shetland Bus ships trying to sneak partisans in and out of Norway.

Planned Aspects:
These features almost certainly will be in the expansion pack.

A new nation, occupied Norway. This will be the "neutral Norway" nation from Norway's official surrender in 1940. This will allow for the original "Norway" nation to be hostile throughout the war, while neutral fishing boats and merchants sail the Norse coast.

New single-player missions depicting key events. There will be two kinds of single-player missions: U-Boat operations, with historical objectives, and Scenery Missions, which have you be a mere observer without mission objectives and are solely for the purpose of letting you experience select operations without having to travel to them in Career mode.

There will also most likely be at least one "what if"-scenario, depicting, among other things, a late-war Allied invasion of Norway.

Reworked Norwegian cities, towns, and fortresses: The map will have a ton of new cities, towns, villages, and fortresses and military bases (such as Oscarborg Fortress) - maybe one or two of them rendered in 3D! The many guns of the Atlantic Wall will also be represented.

Nearly every single city will be reworked. I've already made Haugesund and Stavanger from scratch, and replaced the harbour of Bergen, with Wilhelmshaven's 3D harbour model taking the place of the original.

New radio messages, including Quisling's infamous radio coup. Historical radio broadcasts from the period may be picked up by your radio man, further increasing immersion.

SH3 Commander additions: An optional mod' will add features to Sh3 Commander, such as new news items during loading and additional gossip in the nightclub.

The Shetland Bus: Partisan boat traffic between Norway and Shetland, transporting refugees, partisan agents, and supplies.

Historical battles and engagements, including Operation Archery - the raid on Måløy which was part of conning Germany into stationing a total of 300 000+ German troops in Norway in expectation of a full-scale Allied invasion.

Several new or reworked vessels, aircraft, and land units. Already, several new u-boats have gotten themselves new winter camouflage skins.

Possible Aspects:
These are features that may be included, and, come the recruitment of some helpers, probably will:

Corrected topography. Fixes some inconsistencies in the Silent Hunter III representation of Norway, such as closed passages, missing islands and so on.

New theme features, such as loading screens, etc. How extensive this is going to be is undecided as of yet.

About the project:

Team Leader and Contributors
Safe-Keeper (midgardeagle@hotmail.com): Lead.
_Seth_ (e-mail not provided): Type IIa and VIIc Submarine Camouflage Skin, Cutter skins.
Danlisa (e-mail not provided): Type IX-C Submarine Camouflage Skin.
bigboywooly: Help with Altmark (Small Tanker Cloned) and Land Layer.

Teasers and In-game Movie Clips
"Look to Norway": First teaser triler and project announcement.

News Updates as posted at SubSim forums
2006
November
December

2007
May

Feature List and E.T.A. of First Release
Pending.

Download Links
Pending.

Reviews
Pending.