Norwegian Merchant Fleet (Notraship)

[Alex_brunius]

- Norway can remain neutral

The ships and their captains don't care about politics either way.
They do shipping for the side that pays, has stuff in need of shipping and has the lowest risk to work for.
No matter how you look at it that will pretty much always be the Allies in any semi-historical or plausible development.

- Germany can secure large portions of the fleet (if Norway joins Axis for example)

Do you think that the Allies would allow these ships to go through their total blockade of Germany so that they can be used later to invade them? Probably not?

They would be captured and used by the Allies anyways...

- Britain (in most cases) will secure large fleets of convoys to help their war effort.

Yeah basically that is what I'm saying here. It doesn't really matter. because the allies get to use the ships regardless.

So to summarize the possible results here:
- Allies get to use the ships if Norway remains neutral
- Allies get to capture and use the ships if Norway joins the Axis
- Allies get to use the ships if Norway falls and or joins the Allies ( historical outcome )

 

[Don_Leon]

I really hope we get to see this ingame somewhere down the road, my grandfather served in norweigan merchant marine during world war 2. every sunday as a kid i went with him to a cafe here in my small town where he met other sailors and they talked about the war and life before and after. For a small kid was inspiring to hear.

 

[Tarskin]

Merchant marines were extremely important and should somehow be modelled, this applies to other fleets as well (the Dutch merchant marine was also quite large, although I don't have the details here with me at work I know that it was around 1000 ships or so).

 

[Simoleum]

Yeah basically that is what I'm saying here. It doesn't really matter. because the allies get to use the ships regardless.

It sort of does, as per now (we assume) there will be no convoys to be aquired by the UK. Even if what you say is true, and the allies getting the convoys regardless, this isnt in the game now. Then we are back to a straight event "give UK X convoys", for historical and flavor reasons