Realistic Medals

A complete medals overhaul With historically accurate criteria, realistic award requirements and improved visuals. 📌 Important Note I'm Only trying to create medals that match those historically worn by U-boat crews. Obtaining Medals with this mod Even with this mod, obtaining medals in the game may still seem too easy to you. I have adjusted medal acquisition criteria to better reflect historical reality. But this does not necessarily correspond to the difficulty level you have chosen in the game options. Historical Facts: On average, U-boat patrols lasted about 5 weeks at sea (less for Type II, much more for Type IX), followed by 4 weeks in port for repairs, maintenance, and rest. Since the war lasted 5 years and 8 months for Germany, a U-boat commander could theoretically complete about 33 patrols. In reality: No commander ever exceeded 27 patrols (record held by Albrecht Brandi, with short missions in the Mediterranean). Most famous commanders (Kretschmer, Prien, Lüth, Lehmann-Willenbrock) completed only 10 to 16 patrols during their entire career. No U-boat commander's career lasted the entire war! So, for this mod: I decided to implement realistic patrol requirements for the 'U-boat War Badge' and the 'U-boat Front Clasp'. (Even though the historical criteria for these medals weren't based only on patrol count.) This is especially true for the 'U-boat War Badge with Diamonds,' which in the vanilla game is awarded far too easily after just 8 patrols. Regarding the 'U-Boat Front Clasp in Gold' (which was never officially awarded during the war), I chose to keep it but set an extremely difficult patrols count requirement. No changes: Requirements for 'Wound Badges' already align with history. Also no changes to German, Iron, Knight's Crosses; Since this would require changing the entire rewards points system, it is beyond my scope for now,., and the developers may update this soon. (Whatever, you will receive all these crosses in the correct order.) And because