Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?

[IAF Lyrkiller]

Patience has finally paid off. I went into Loch Ewe not expecting to find anything, found a Fiji class CL and deep-sixed her. 

My 13th patrol and found something other than DDs.

I ended that patrol w/ over 30K sunk. My highest so far.

[Jack Morris]

I would not believe it if I had not seen it, especially for a 7 boat. Plus 1 Dracho, I will have to sit down one day and work very, very hard to beat that patrol.

[manitoba1073]

Flucking A it is! Plus one big D! I think that would count as one of the greatest patrols ever, forget the merchies and tonnage race! How many torps did you spend on sinking it? Where was it docked? Lock Ewe? Well big D has the BB bragging rights for now, I guess we'll have to wait for a CV or a King George V class to be shown! 

Little bit of history for you, the only King George V class to be sunk during the war was the mighty Prince of Wales when the Brits were stupid enough to send her right where the Japs had MUCHO air power.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-p/pow12.htm

hey jack there alrdy was a cv sunk, long ago lol

 

[Jack Morris]

Old patch Manitoba, you would not believe how uncanny the AI is on the new one. 

I remember that CV being sunk though, you did great on that one. On the old patch I too found a CV in the Flow, but I did not do the tutorials due to my experience on SH2, and ended up with no reloads due to being rigged for silent running, duhhhhh. Oh well, live and learn. 

[Dracho]

My first warship:  The HMS Dido, a light cruiser.  I took her with a 3 torpedo spread at 3 degrees and 5 meters depth.  One struck the forward magazine.  It was in a shallow passage, notice her bottom out.

[IAF Lyrkiller]

I could not get any pics due to the fact that it was at night.

[Jack Morris]

Awesome pics Dracho!

How do I get more than one pic off the steps you taught me? I press print screen and only get one pic, and if I take another I only get the latest pic. What am I doing wrong?

[Dracho]

Press Print-scrn, Pause the game,  alt-tab to desktop and put the image in paint and save it, go back into the game, unpause, press print-scrn again..

shampoo, lather, rinse repeat.   

Just keep pausing between screen shots.

[Jack Morris]

Thanks man!

 

[Brush Wolf]

I have been using FRAPS which comes in a free and a pay version with the pay version having better video capabilities.

http://www.fraps.com/

[Dracho]

Well, something on my PC has freaked out and SH3 no longer works.  The task bar stays on top of it and it won't un-pause. 

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

I could fix that....

[Dracho]

Any idea what it is?  I've changed absolutely nothing since last evening and its just stopped working.

Edit:  Weirdness.  The game had unchecked maximize, but that didn't work.  Using Wolfie's mod program to edit the max time compression unstuck the pause.  Total weirdness..

[Jack Morris]

Plus one for Dracho, it gives us "lesser" aces time to catch up while he is stuck in port, hehehehehehe... 

Here's hoping you get it running again Dracho, it doesn't matter if you have to start over, we know who the top dog is so far on SH3.

[Dallas]

It's been so frickin' hot here that I haven't played any. My poor little
sub is in drydock.

[Jack Morris]

Fluck yeah it's hot, we finally had a downpour for a couple of days and STILL had temps in the upper 90's. Here's hoping the remnants of Emily pass over TX as rainstorms and cooler weather.

[IAF Lyrkiller]

Fluck yeah it's hot, we finally had a downpour for a couple of days and STILL had temps in the upper 90's. Here's hoping the remnants of Emily pass over TX as rainstorms and cooler weather.

Hey Jack, I thought Emily or what was left of her would come up towards Dallas. We NEED the rain.

[Jack Morris]

I did not know you are in TX Cayne! Austin, TX here, and of course you probably know Sethan is in Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

NOAA is not saying much, but I did catch the sat image, it looks like most of TX SHOULD get rain, I know in Austin we have had a daily rain shower once or twice a day, and my tomato plants and green bean plants are growing like they are on steroids (plus the fact I ALWAYS use Miracle Grow products and soil). I just hope that it takes it's time as it ruined Cancun and Cozumel, and Admiral wifey is not as interested in Padre as I am (I want to go to the old places where people found Spanish doubloons from wrecks from hundreds of years ago, they still wash ashore to this very day after heavy storms), and Port Isabel was a pit stop base for Jean Lafitte. Why do I want it to take it's time? That leaves S.A. and Sea World for the weekend, or I might be driving along the Gulf coast seeing where I had great days as a young one, and hoping to end up in Destin, FL but darn that's some driving. Besides that there is another storm developing, and FL may be in danger of getting bathed again.

[Dracho]

I re-installed the game 3 times, but the problem did not clear up until I deleted my saved game data.  Starting a new career did not fix it, so I'm guessing a config file became corrupted.


I'm going through the academy again, then I am going to bag 90,000 tons with a VIIB.   

Edit: I decided to try a Type II boat this time out.  I've broken the back of a C2 cargo ship on the first day of the war (one torpedo, HAH), and am trying to sneak it into Scapa Flow (my assigned patrol area, believe it or not).  I think I will try for 40,000 tons in a II.

[Dracho]

Ugh.. these Type II's are hard.  The best I've managed so far is 21668 tons in one patrol, and that's breaking the back of a tanker and a C-2 with one torpedo each.  I'd have to get lucky and stumble across a passenger liner or a big warship to top 40K.