Kriegsmarine ship names

...for HOI4 1.6.x

Due to its very limited content this mod should be compatible with a lot of other mods. Of course I cannot guarantee anything, so combine with any other mod at your own risk!

INTRODUCTION

This is the original, not some cheap knock-off! Paradox even made some of it "official". And they would simply adopt all of it if they had any balls. This mod tries to keep German ship designations as realistic as possible. Some of the adjustments simply fix minor errors, or fill gaps. On the other hand flavour elements enter the realm of speculation. If there's not enough historical data to provide, for example, a hundred cruiser names, everything you do is and always will be purely hypothetical. Nonetheless one can at least try to keep it as plausible as possible. Still, everything non-historical in this mod is just a matter of personal opinion.

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Version 1.5

KRIEGSMARINE (NAVY)

DESTROYERS Fix: Changed destroyers "Z1" to "Z22" to full names, like "Z1 Leberecht Maass". Flavour: Increased the name list to 500 vessels, if you want to go crazy.

LIGHT CRUISERS Flavour: Removed names like "Medusa", "Nymphe" and so forth. - The German Navy stopped using such playful names for cruisers long before WW2. - And increased the list of names, all city names, to 101.

HEAVY CRUISERS & BATTLE CRUISERS Flavour: Historical German heavy or battle cruisers almost exclusively took their names from famous commanders. There were no battle cruisers named after provinces. Therefore, those have been removed. Now there are 22 heavy cruiser and 20 battle cruiser designations, all of them historical commander names. (Yes, I looked up every German/Austrian general/admiral I could find...)

BATTLESHIPS Flavour: Historically battleship designations were a rather colorful mix of commander, region and royal names. The latter is of course not useful for this time frame. Thus those were removed, along with other unrealistic names. Now the list consists of 6 famous military or political figures, plus 25 regions.

CARRIERS Flavour: Removed everything except "Graf Zeppelin". None of those names are useful or likely for dedicated fleet carriers. The list starts with German/Austrian aviation pioneers. (Some of them weren't German/Austrian nationals, but did work for the benefit of Germany/Austria.) It continues with famous WWI, then WWII pilots. Altogether there are now 42 carrier names.

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