Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III? (Read 75818 times)

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #80 on:** April 13, 2005, 12:48:19 am »

According to most texts I've read, Nimitz never ordered, verbatim, the machine-gunning of Japanese survivors. However, such an obvious blind eye was turned toward the actions of American skippers who did such things (Dudley Morton, for example) that their actions were effectively condoned. The fact that such ruthless behavior didn't become policy was only due to many skippers distaste for the idea.

Donitz, when he forbade rescue attempts, was actually acting out of concern for his crews. The Laconia incident had a German U-Boat radioing to anyone who would listen that they were engaged in rescue operations, only to be bombed anyway. It was probably a miscommunication on the Allies part, but it still made it clear that any benevolence on the part of the U-Boat sailors would but them at serious risk.

Now...back to gaming stuff...

Raided a convoy this morning northwest of Ireland. Sitting right smack dab in the middle of the convoy was a huge 25,000 ton Passenger Liner. I only had two torps left, but with magnetic detonators, I figured I might be able to sink her. I got within six hundred yards, had my torps set to fast speed and was just brining the bow around to an ideal firing position when I noticed the Star's and Stripes fluttering from my target's masthead.

It was 1940, with the US still neutral. I said many many many bad words.

Of course then I sank a tanker to console myself and felt a lot better.

I'd have fun with the contest thing. Anyone tell me how to take a screenshot (and post it here, come to think of it...I don't know how)?

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #81 on:** April 13, 2005, 01:51:40 am »

screenies can be done 2 ways. one is the print screen buttun

or use cntrl - f11 combination. nice hit dracho i suggest u chk out the merchant mod for ur identification manual. shows weak spots of all the merchants. first one is a DD i got close with out being detected. lol

the second is a DD i didnt let get away.

he didnt even see it coming 1200 yards away lol.

J. Carney · « **Reply #82 on:** April 13, 2005, 04:44:21 am »

OK, I didn't know about the screenie mod, and I am NOT going to do THIS again to get a pic (at least not intentionally)...

I'm patrolling in AM36, on the PQ-JW route between Liverpool and Murmansk. I have multiple merchies to the east, so I up scope and find about a 5x4 convoy, with a T3 tanker in the center and a troopship one row over from me.

Oh RAPTURE!!! I can now stop about 10,000 guys from being over paid, over sexed, and over here. So I maneuver into the convoy's line of travel and wait for a good shot. A V&W glides past me at 800m while I do my best impression of a hole in the water. A couple of minutes later, I have a good shot on both the Merchies. A pair of wakeless torps (the battery powered jobs) go off to the troopship. Then I eyeball the difference in distance between her and the nearer tanker... I count ten before firing to try and synchronize the impacts. I put a pair of the old alcohol-powered eels on the water to the T3. Down scope.

I watch the hands on the stopwatch move and BOOM, BOOM... the near fish hit. I up scope, and the tanker is burning like a sunuvagun. About the time I get her in the scope, BOOM, BOOM... and I watch the trooper disintigrate. Broke her back, and she goes up in a blinding explosion.

But it was the tanker that almost killed me... because my scope was silhouetted agianst the flames.

A Type-C that was doing picket duty outside the convoy spotted my scope agianst the blaze, or the shadow it cast on the water or something and is now beating down on me at about 25 knots, pinging like all hell.

Shucks and other comments.

The good news is that he's still about 1500m of and I'm on almost the same heading that he is... he lined his aproach up too good. I decide that since I'm dead anyway, he's going down with me. I take a snapshot on the lubber with my aft tube, and leave the scope up to tease him.

Come get me, big boy.

A couple of seconds later, he disappears from my scope in a gout of foam and smoke. When I see he is in two pieces and wallowing low in the water, burning from stem to stern. If there's a next time for him, he'll lern to come in at an extreme angle to make the torp dud.

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #83 on:** April 13, 2005, 05:05:11 am »

I just got some early morning revenge!

I've had this bad habit of running into PT boats in the channel or lurking near Gibraltar when it was windy enough that I couldn't man my deck gun. The little [censored]'s always come roaring in on me, firing their 20mm's and sending my deck crew diving for cover with me completely unable to respond. So I dive...don't want a stray round blowing Udo's head off when I just got him promoted.

This morning, as I decided to be brave and dare slipping through the English Channel, things happen about the same except, for once, when McHale's Pride and Joy decides to come plink at me the seas are calm. I man the deck gun and start firing 88mm rounds at him, but he's moving at 40 knots and I can't land a hit since he's getting in too close to really aim the thing. So I decide to try something else. I call my loyal Chief Warrant Officer Ketner up from below decks, have him jump on my newly upgraded AA gun (Got the one with the twin barrels), and start unloading on my tormentor.

It works...a littler better than I thought. At first I get too excited and miss a lot since I'm firing long bursts instead of short ones. But when I get used to the gun, I start placing short groups of 20mm onto the PT Boat. I wonder if I'm doing anything until there's a small explosion on the MTB, and then I bust his searchlight. Encouraged, I keep tracking him and then BOOM...there's a big explosion dead center on my target...

...which then bursts into flame, but instead of sinking, leaves a ridiculously satisfying trail of flame across the water for about three boat lengths before he explodes and sinks beneath the waves.

Stick to windy weather, pal!

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #84 on:** April 13, 2005, 05:59:45 am »

i just got me a type VII and having fun taking out merchants with it, only prob is im running low on ammo, must remember to bring next time

i got me a score of 5 so far this cruise. lol. unforntately nothing bigger than DD's or medium merchants. im going round britian lol, have to love grid AN87

heres some shots too

Jack Morris · « **Reply #85 on:** April 13, 2005, 09:13:11 am »

Awesome graphics! Though I think it will take a while for me to get used to seeing all those crewmembers' faces and new command buttons.

Dracho · « **Reply #86 on:** April 13, 2005, 04:43:18 pm »

Alrighty Captains, I suggest we all post a note if we are in the "contest". We will all agree to give the winner(s) a positive karma?

I suggest we start with:

Category A) The first to document >20,000 on a single patrol
Category B) The first to document the sinking of a cruiser
Category C) The largest tonnage for a single career.

I'm in..

J. Carney · « **Reply #87 on:** April 13, 2005, 05:05:14 pm »

Quote from: Dracho on April 13, 2005, 04:43:18 pm

Alrighty Captains, I suggest we all post a note if we are in the "contest". We will all agree to give the winner(s) a positive karma?

I suggest we start with:

Category A) The first to document >20,000 on a single patrol
Category B) The first to document the sinking of a cruiser
Category C) The largest tonnage for a single career.

I'm in..

I'm in, and I'll even make the first claim, a 24,360 ton patrol, in U-48 (a type VIIB).
http://webpages.charter.net/csn290/Photos/patrol.JPG

Il'' just link to the screenshot to keep the page fast, I can't shrink it.

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #88 on:** April 13, 2005, 08:21:37 pm »

I'm in too. I'll have to figure out how to post screenies now...

Jack Morris · « **Reply #89 on:** April 13, 2005, 08:23:39 pm »

Great patrol J.C.! Just remember, when late 42, early 43 roll around, there will be hell to pay!

J. Carney · « **Reply #90 on:** April 13, 2005, 09:33:51 pm »

Quote from: Jack Morris on April 13, 2005, 08:23:39 pm

Great patrol J.C.! Just remember, when late 42, early 43 roll around, there will be hell to pay!

Oh, yeah... I'm already starting to sweat those bloody Liberator's and Catalina's with their bloody air-dropped, acoustic-homing torps that will show up in late '44, too!

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #91 on:** April 13, 2005, 10:50:08 pm »

im in too. lol could thing i'll be close to that 20000 ton cruise once i get finished with it. i sunk 5 freighters with just my deck guns so far. oh u can add music to the grammaphone folder to have custom music too, it just has to be in mp3 format. might i suggest vaugner ride of the falcries lol.

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #92 on:** April 13, 2005, 10:58:00 pm »

What realism is everyone playing at? I've got mine set at 85%, everything except 'no automatic firing solutions' turned on. With the 1.2 patch I suppose I could turn that on, turn 'no weapons officer assistance' off, and let him generate solutions on request.

I like to think my officers are good for something.

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #93 on:** April 14, 2005, 12:02:43 am »

lol mine at 48%

J. Carney · « **Reply #94 on:** April 14, 2005, 04:46:31 am »

Oh, sorry... I'm at 67%, about to move up to the 'no map updates' level.

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #95 on:** April 14, 2005, 06:17:22 am »

u noticed that i had damage on that one heres y lol and yeap my periscope scraped the bottom enough to make my boat wobble side to side

Dracho · « **Reply #96 on:** April 14, 2005, 08:50:11 am »

Okay, JC takes the >20,000 prize. Everyone give him your karma. Let's now up it to a >30,000 tons for a patrol challenge.

Now, who's going to claim the cruiser and the best career?

Dracho · « **Reply #97 on:** April 14, 2005, 09:14:54 am »

To take a screen shot, do the following:

Press PrintScreen in the game. Alt-tab to desktop and open MS Paint. Press Ctrl-V to paste into the program. Use the cropping tool to select only what you want to appear and then select "Copy" from the edit menu.

Open a new paint file and paste. Save as a jpeg. Upload the jpeg to your web hosting site. View the picture online, and select what is in the address bar in your browser. Paste that address here in a message, highlight it, and press the insert image button on the forum menu. Viola.

You all want to have a "Coolest Screen Shot" contest where we let the forum vote?

Jack Morris · « **Reply #98 on:** April 14, 2005, 10:05:14 am »

Even though I cannot play right now, I vote for it, though the periscope scrape is the best so far, IMO...

IN SH2 there was a task force with a Hood class BC and a CV cruising around the Med, did they do away with it so far?

When I played SH2, I had everything set to high except for firing solutions, too much trouble and I had a hard enough time doing MY job as for some strange reason the view in periscope mode did NOT work, thus I was basically a submersible PT boat. After 43 rolled around I was pretty much through dealing (even in a night attack) as radar equipped DDs and other vessels came out, as well as the radar equipped fighter bombers.

J. Carney · « **Reply #99 on:** April 14, 2005, 03:18:51 pm »

Oh, man... guys, I just fired a torp without ANY assistance from my Weps.

I did it the old-fashioned way.

Coastal Merchie, range 500m... I just looked at how far away he was, guessed about how fast the torps would cross his line of travel, steered my boat to an intercept course, and fired a single torp.

I caught him just forward of the funnel and broke his back.

Quite a bit of luck involved, but then again, shooting a torpedo was generally as much an exercise in luck as anything else.

I'll give a vote for the scope-scrape shot as the best screenie. I won't be in on that one, because I have the external cameras turned off.

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